This time, Derek Jeter has gone too far. Marlins fans remained relatively quiet when he sold off all of our favorite players to other teams for prospects. We didn’t like it, but most of us understood there was a process in action.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had an armed and trained police guard at the school the day Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students and teachers. People have since questioned why the guard wasn’t able to stop Cruz from committing the massacre. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel solved that mystery minutes ago: BSO School Resource Officer Scot Peterson “never went in” to confront Cruz as the shooting occurred.
Everyone knows Florida is run by rubes, fools, and con men. But most people likely weren’t aware just how stupid the state’s legislators really are here on a daily basis until this week, when a brutal Florida school massacre forced national reporters to ask the state’s Republican intelligentsia how they feel…
The day after a disturbed student burst into his former school with a military-style rifle and shot 17 people to death, Chris Grady was sitting at home, feeling “pretty useless.” The 18-year-old senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High kept thinking he should be doing something about the massacre.
“Shame! Shame! Shame!” a man wearing a “Ban the AR-15” shirt yelled as Sen. Marco Rubio entered the BB&T Center for Wednesday night’s CNN town-hall special about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre.
Are you, perhaps, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who is sad or upset that a disturbed 19-year-old was able to buy an AR-15 rifle legally and kill 17 of your friends and teachers last week?
There’s a reason right-wing groups seem to be terrified of the Parkland shooting survivors. The brave kids who lived through the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre have begun a nationwide #NeverAgain protest movement: As shooting survivors speak today in the Florida Capitol, thousands of middle- and high-school students across the state are walking out to demand gun-control laws for the second day in a row.
Give Philip Levine this: He knows how to grab the pressing issue of the day and run with it for maximum media exposure. As Miami Beach’s mayor, Levine leveraged his office on the sea-level rise threatened barrier island to become an international voice for climate change, appearing regularly on CNN,…
The Heat probably isn’t going to make the NBA Finals this year. But, yanno, it could! Here is how that totally improbable thing could happen, thus making us look really smart for saying it could (even when we didn’t really believe it would).
Say what you want about Tampa-area state Rep. Ross Spano, but he truly cares about the dangers our children face in the 21st Century. Just six days after Florida was forced to live through one of the most horrific school shootings in American history, in large part because a…
Perhaps no piece of news illustrates how depraved and broken the Florida political system is than what just went down in Tallahassee. Just six days after Nikolas Cruz used an AR-15 assault rifle to murder 14 teenagers and three adults at a high school in Parkland, the Florida House of Representatives voted down a measure to ban purchases of assault rifles and large-capacity magazines statewide.
A whole lot of pro-gun activists, conspiracy theorists, and general piles of garbage want to pretend these children don’t exist. But today, hundreds of South Florida students have walked out of class and are marching in the streets to demand increased gun-safety laws after 17 students and teachers were shot to death last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
In the days after their classmates were massacred by a disturbed kid who was allowed to purchase military-style weaponry, hundreds of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors have become fiery gun-control advocates. Their message is simple: Nikolas Cruz never should have been able to buy the assault weapon that he used to mow down 17 people in mere minutes.
A federal grand jury filed charges against 13 Russian nationals Friday for allegedly stealing identities, wiring money overseas, and staging a small series of flash mobs to help tip the 2016 election in Donald Trump’s favor. It’s unclear whether the social media campaign had any actual impact on voting…
After Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people including three members of the Broward Teachers Union (BTU) last week, union members — led by President Anna Fusco — began marching in the streets to demand gun reform, better school mental-health counseling services, and a world where their students can learn without worrying about being murdered for no reason.
What do some people call cocaine? Try Bolivian marching powder. What is alien sex fiend? PCP combined with heroin, at least according to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s report on drug slang.
The Miami Dolphins and Jarvis Landry seem to have reached a stalemate in contract negotiations. The team seems unwilling to pay him the kind of money top wide receivers make in the NFL, even following a season in which he led the league in receptions. Landry appears dead-set on a contract that reflects the record-setting pace he has produced since being drafted by the Fins in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
One day after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz used an AR-15 to kill 17 people in Parkland, Florida, last Wednesday, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel ended a news conference by proposing an idea that is sure to trouble free-speech and civil-liberty activists: He called for lawmakers in D.C. and Tallahassee to pass laws letting cops detain civilians just for posting “questionable” things on social media, including photographs of knives or vague comments about admiring serial killers, even if the people writing the posts aren’t actually threatening anyone.
Miami’s relatively small cadre of reporters spent the entire week struggling to cover a horrific school shooting in Parkland. The entire nation has been preoccupied with debates about gun control, politicians have spent most of the past few days reacting to news from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and typical news “beat” reporters have been shuffled around to cover the shooting news round-the-clock since Wednesday.
The FBI today revealed the biggest news yet in the ongoing investigation of Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russian agents: A grand jury charged 14 Russian nationals with interfering in the U.S. electoral system beginning in 2013 or earlier.
In a startling announcement, the FBI said in a news release moments ago that someone “close to Nikolas Cruz” called the bureau this past January 5 — slightly more than 30 days before this week’s massacre — and warned the federal government that Cruz owned guns and had expressed a desire to commit a school shooting.
Politicians and pundits trotted out the usual platitudes in the wake of Wednesday’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland: Marco Rubio shared some thoughts, offered prayers, and then went on Fox News to urge everyone not to jump to conclusions. Donald Trump tweeted about mental illness…
