Politics & Government

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum have resorted to creative means to lubricate the gears of political donation.

Two cops flew to Qatar and stayed at a posh hotel “to provide dignitary protection for the Honorable Mayor Suarez.”

Joe Kent was a vocal supporter of Patriot Prayer, a group known for organizing powder-keg political rallies in the Pacific Northwest that descended into violent clashes.

The club owners say the raid was nothing more than political payback.

Transit expert Ray Delahanty says Miami has “the kind of spine of metro rail service that you would hope the region is able to build upon and leverage.”

If casual Alex Jones viewers were to select their “Most Interesting Man in the World,” it might be Daniel Boronico.

An artificial flower business linked to a man from Guangzhou, China, donated $500K to the super PAC supporting Mayor Suarez, according to the Campaign Legal Center.

The state’s new Black history standards suggest slaves derived “personal benefits” from skills they learned while enslaved.

These students have been studying up on topics that might boil the blood of the anti-“woke”: intersectionality, ingrained anti-Black discrimination, and the history of LGBTQ resistance.

Dozens of Aventura residents gathered outside city hall to protest the city’s plan to build pickleball courts at Founders Park South.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s past trips to Fort Lauderdale have been dredged up in the wake of reports he did not disclose sojourns bankrolled by billionaire Harlan Crow.

North Miami Beach paid more than $110,000 in legal fees while its government was deadlocked for months over then-mayor Anthony DeFillipo’s residency controversy.

The aide claimed Florida House Rep. Fabián Basabe slapped his face and ordered him to stand in the corner like a naughty child.

“I’ll look at – what did you call it? A Weeble?”

Weston’s June 20 meeting, during which the city formally designated June as LGBTQ Pride Month, marked the first time Peggy Brown missed a commission meeting as mayor.

The 27-year-old Weston native was sentenced to nearly five years for using a baton to pummel a D.C. officer who was being dragged down a flight of stairs at the Capitol.

Miami mayor officially tosses his hair gel-crusted hat into the ring for the 2024 presidential race.

U.S. Congressman Carlos Giménez didn’t mince words about Francis Suarez’s presidential aspirations, telling New Times that the Miami mayor “has never established himself as having the capacity to run anything in his life.”

A rally outside the Miami federal courthouse teetered on the verge of violence when an agitated Trump supporter struck an anti-Trump protester’s “Lock him up” sign and tried to order her to leave.

A cavalcade of Trumplandia characters began to roll in around 8 a.m., not unlike when the carnies rumble into town to set up the rickety rides and rigged game booths.

A group pushing for Joe Carollo’s resignation plans to speak out at Miami city hall to decry what they’re calling “decades of corruption and continuous harassment.”

“It’s about time the corruption was called out,” Bill Fuller said outside the courtroom following the verdict.