Miami

The annual Miami Film Festival has become a prestigious platform for international, American, and Ibero-American filmmakers, welcoming luminaries such as Nicolas Cage, Sophia Loren, Antonio Banderas, Anne Hathaway, Spike Lee, Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, Rita Moreno, Alfonso Cuarón, and Ethan Hawke, among many others.

Former CBS4 anchorman Eliott Rodriguez confirms he's running for the seat of Miami Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar — raising the prospect of an unusually competitive race in Florida's 27th District.

Venezuelan fans are turning the World Baseball Classic in Miami into a celebration. Venezuela played the Netherlands, and Venezuelan fans packed the lower deck near their country's dugout.

Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a key figure in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment investigation, is joining a crowded field of Democratic candidates seeking to unseat Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar.

Shot and left paralyzed as a teenager, Aaron Willis died last month by suicide following a long struggle with health issues, according to family. WLRN first told his story in 2017 and is republishing the original story that was part of a series on victims of gun violence.

After a career in global insurance, Dame Susan Langley is the Lady Mayor of London, heading up the oldest democratically elected local governments in the world. It is a one-year position representing the financial heart of London. She spoke with WLRN about the cost of global insurance and international trade.

Miami Republican Congressmen Carlos Gimenez and other Cuban exile leaders are urging the Trump administration to cancel all export licenses that send luxury goods to communist Cuba — even though data indicate it's hardly a problem.

With shovels in hand, city and county officials pressed their spades into the sandy soil of Allapattah on Friday afternoon, marking the start of construction for a mixed-income workforce and affordable housing community rising just west of downtown Miami.

COMMENTARY As the U.S. cuts off oil to Cuba, Havana's communist regime and Miami's exile leadership remain locked in a zero-sum mindset that risks greater humanitarian catastrophe on the island.

Recently retired CBS4 news anchorman Eliott Rodriguez told WLRN "I am seriously considering" a Democratic challenge for GOP Miami Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar's seat this year — and immigration is a key reason.

Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins condemned the Trump administration's decision to appeal a federal judge's ruling protecting Haitian immigrants nationwide from being deported.

The Florida Immigrant Coalition hailed Monday night's decision to block the Trump administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrant as "a critical victory for families, workers, and communities across the country — especially here in Florida."