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  Miami Is the Third Best Foodie City in America, Study Says

  October 8 at 9 a.m.

  According to a new study by WalletHub, the Magic City has been ranked the third best food city in the United States, behind New York at number two (no surprise) and Portland at number one (slight surprise).

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  A Miami-Based Jail Health-Care Company Profits While Patients Die

  September 17 at 9 a.m.

  The voice on the other end of the line sounded so thin, so frail, that at first Erika Williams didn't recognize it as her son's. It was only by the ten digits glowing on her iPhone — the number for the Flagler County jail — that she realized who was calling her February 4, 2019, a balmy Monday in North Florida.

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  Maduro Asks Venezuelans Abroad to Send Money Via State-Run Cryptocurrency Platform

  August 28 at 10 a.m.

  More than 4 million Venezuelans have been forced to flee their country, most in the past few years, due to the economic and political crisis created by strongman Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez. The immense exodus, the largest in the modern history of the Western Hemisphere...

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  Tourism, Florida's Top Industry, Pays Lowest Wages in America, Study Shows

  August 14 at 8 a.m.

  Miami has long been a wildly unequal place. It's a city where wages don't come close to keeping up with local rent costs, a place where a staggering number of millennials still live with their parents, and a town where hospitality and tourism workers are often forced to trek miles on hours-long bus rides...

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  Jewish Group Plans #NeverAgain Protest Outside GEO Group Headquarters in Boca Raton

  August 12 at 9 a.m.

  Every summer, people of the Jewish faith commemorate the day of Tisha B'Av by fasting and mourning. The date memorializes the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem centuries ago. In modern times, Tisha B'Av has become an annual opportunity for activism or charitable acts — a time to practice tikkun olam, the Jewish teaching of "repairing the world."

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  Publix Heirs Are Maxing Out Donations to Donald Trump's 2020 Campaign

  August 9 at 9 a.m.

  Progressives, critics, and basically all people with moral backbones and souls this week are furious at Stephen Ross — the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the gym chains Equinox and SoulCycle, as well as an investor in many other ventures — for quietly planning to host a fundraiser for Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign.