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Last night, the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission voted 4-0 to send a letter to Miami Beach City officials with a simple message: No shady business behind closed doors in regard to loca... More >>
Past the scowling Puerto Rico National Guard sentries and razor-wire fences, down a rutted gravel road into the heart of Guantánamo... More >>
His thin, 81-year-old frame draped in a tan suit, his sharp eyes shaded by wraparound sunglasses, Tibor Hollo stands before a rusted... More >>
Past the scowling Puerto Rican National Guard sentries and razor-wire fences, down a rutted gravel road into the heart of Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta detention facility, Army Col. Bruce Vargo bursts w... More >>
Imagine that you're an accountant or a software engineer for ING and the terrible news reached you first thing this morning: You've been laid off.In fact, that's just what happened to 7,000 employees ... More >>
Now that it's official -- Obama is closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- and we've all given ourselves a hearty slap on the back, the tough questions are really starting to rear their ugl... More >>
Hey, have you heardr Fidel Castro might totally be dying! Seriously, some guy who served Riptide a cafe cubano on Calle Ocho says his brother in Matanzas is tight with Fidel's chauffeur's third cousin... More >>
The prez-elect electrified the newswires yesterday when word leaked he plans to issue an executive order during his first week in office -- and maybe his first day -- officially shutting down the dete... More >>
Florida International University professor and all around curmudgeon Stanley Fish is up to his old -- and we do me old -- tricks in the New York Times again.You might recall Fish's classic work of gru... More >>
Chuckie Taylor Jr., the Orlando-raised son of Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, already faces a world of pain in Miami's federal courthouse this morning.In October, Chuckie became the first American c... More >>
Last month, a feisty Cuban-American protest erupted outside the Miami Beach premiere of Stephen Soderbergh's new four-hour epic about Che Guevara.In an interview with the New Times the next day, Soder... More >>
Janoris Jenkins's path to college football glory — like a surprising number of players before him — stretches through the... More >>
Let's count the ways that Charles Barkley, as usual, is the wisest guy in the room. No, Riptide isn't applauding his DUI arrest a couple of days ago in Arizona. That was no good. We're talking about h... More >>
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As we prepare for the dawning of the age of Obama in exactly two weeks, this weekend provided another reminder it's going to take more than a feel-great election and historic inauguration to clean up ... More >>
