Moments after being sworn in as Puerto Rico’s new governor, Pedro R. Pierluisi pledged in no uncertain terms that he would willingly step down in the coming days if the island’s Senate voted against confirming him — even if that made him one of the shortest-serving governors ever to take office.
A week after announcing his imminent resignation, Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló of Puerto Rico nominated a new secretary of state who could succeed him. Pedro R. Pierluisi faces a confirmation hearing in the Legislative Assembly.
The two shootings were separated by seven days and more than 1,500 miles, but the details seemed eerily familiar: When a gunman charged into a classroom, a student went barreling toward him, preventing more bloodshed while sacrificing his life.World6 Aug 2024
Voters in Denver, a city at the forefront of the widening national debate over legalizing marijuana, have become the first in the nation to effectively decriminalize another recreational drug: hallucinogenic mushrooms.World6 Aug 2024
Voters in Denver, a city at the forefront of the widening national debate over legalizing marijuana, will decide Tuesday whether to be the first in the nation to effectively decriminalize another recreational drug: hallucinogenic mushrooms.World6 Aug 2024
MIAMI — For Darwing Silva, the first sign that something was amiss when his flight landed in Jacksonville, Florida, during a thunderstorm late Friday was that it seemed the jet did not brake after hitting the runway.World6 Aug 2024
MIAMI — For Darwing Silva, the first sign that something was amiss when his flight landed in Jacksonville, Florida, during a thunderstorm late Friday was that it seemed the jet did not brake after hitting the runway.World6 Aug 2024
NORTH MIAMI, Fla. — In November, Florida voters approved a groundbreaking ballot measure that would restore voting rights for up to 1.5 million people with felony convictions. But the Republican-led Legislature voted Friday to impose a series of sharp restrictions that could prevent tens of thousands of them from ever reaching the ballot box.
MIAMI — In Florida, immigrants make up more than a fifth of the population, coming from places as diverse as Cuba, Haiti, Mexico and parts of South America. The Republicans who dominate state government have usually kept that in mind.World6 Aug 2024
MIAMI — As 3 p.m. approached Monday, the editors of The Eagle Eye student newspaper at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, huddled around their adviser’s desk for the announcement of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes.World6 Aug 2024
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The families of some of the victims of the mass shooting last year in Parkland, filed 22 lawsuits on Wednesday accusing the local school district and sheriff’s office of negligence and seeking potentially millions of dollars in damages as compensation.
MIAMI — Prosecutors led by Alexander Acosta, who is now secretary of labor, violated federal law when they failed to tell victims about an agreement not to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy New York financier accused of molesting dozens of underage girls, a federal judge ruled Thursday.World6 Aug 2024
PARKLAND, Fla. — On a day nobody wanted to remember — or forget — several people in maroon T-shirts emblazoned with #MSDStrong found their way Thursday to a place of solace: a flower garden outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that, at the anniversary of the nation’s deadliest school shooting, has sprouted to celebrate life.
PARKLAND, Fla. — On a day nobody wanted to remember — or forget — several people in maroon T-shirts emblazoned with #MSDStrong found their way Thursday to a place of solace: a flower garden outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that, at the anniversary of the nation’s deadliest school shooting, has sprouted to celebrate life.World6 Aug 2024
PARKLAND, Fla. — The name “Parkland” has become a shorthand for the tragedy that many hoped would mark the beginning of the end of school massacres.World6 Aug 2024
MIAMI — For 60 years, the lifeblood of Miami’s idiosyncratic politics has been Cuba, the communist government’s countless sins denounced in street protests, dissected on the Spanish-language airwaves and condemned at campaign rallies under the unifying cry of “Viva Cuba Libre!”World6 Aug 2024
MIAMI — For 60 years, the lifeblood of Miami’s idiosyncratic politics has been Cuba, the communist government’s countless sins denounced in street protests, dissected on the spirited Spanish-language airwaves and condemned at campaign rallies under the unifying cry of “Viva Cuba Libre!”
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