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Hispanic gala wears a red political shade

PALM BEACH — Organizers of a black-tie and glittering evening gown gala focused on Latino community success at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club offered a counterargument to a news cycle dominated by uproar over a deadly immigration siege in...

Officials: Six more people recorded in Epstein files

WASHINGTON – Two House members who led the effort to force the Justice Department to release more documents about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein said they discovered at least six more suspected accomplices. The department began Feb. 9 allowing...

Hundreds protest against ICE near Super Bowl site

SANTA CLARA, CA – They came, they marched, they chanted − all under a close watch. But it wasn’t ICE agents who patrolled the streets on Super Bowl Sunday, as many had anticipated. Hundreds of people on Feb. 8 took over a main thoroughfare less than 2...

‘A loss for everyone’

WEST PALM BEACH — Bianca DeSouza gave birth to a boy with chubby arms and a cry that only she would hear. He was still warm by the time first responders filed into her bedroom but had gone quiet long before. Their attempts to resuscitate him...

BEAUTY, BOUNTY AND BIRTHDAY

UF reports 2 measles cases; officials begin contact tracing

With President Trump ramping up unfounded claims of elections fraud, lawmakers moved forward a measure that would require new voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Dozens of opponents spoke out against the legislation (SB 1334), warning it...

World Cup fans cautioned

Civil leaders gathered outside FIFA headquarters Feb. 5 warning international travelers that “Florida is no longer safe” and calling on the sports organization to take action against recent immigration tactics prior to the World Cup. Groups such as...

Renaming airport could cost millions

It could cost nearly $6 million to rebrand Palm Beach International Airport in honor of President Donald Trump under legislation moving through the Florida Legislature. A Florida House panel approved the name change Jan. 28, a day after a similar bill...

Letter asks to halt contempt proceedings

WASHINGTON – Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to give depositions to a House committee about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, defusing a potential showdown between the legislative and...

HISTORIC FREEZE: 30 DEGREES IN PBC

Residents across Palm Beach County woke up Feb. 2 to the aftermath of a historic arctic surge.• Over the weekend of Jan. 31 to Feb. 1, a powerful cold front turned the subtropics into a deep freeze, sending temperatures plummeting to levels not seen in...

Sky-high luxury

West Palm Beach’s downtown could see eight luxury condominium towers opening in the next couple of years. The downtown won’t quite become Miami, where high-rises mostly wall off the coast. But West Palm Beach’s surging wealth profile, combined with...

Opinion and letters

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People, pets, plants at risk as extreme cold threatens

Nearly all of Florida is facing an extreme cold watch or warning this weekend, a heightened alert used for the first time by many forecast offices in the Peninsula as brutal Arctic air strikes deep into the belly of the state. The forewarning, which...

Democrats demand DHS fixes to avoid shutdown

Less than three months after a record-breaking government shutdown, the country stood on the brink of a partial shutdown as the Senate failed to advance a massive spending package that must pass by Jan. 30. Just the week before, the six-measure bill...

Government shutdown looms after MN killing

WASHINGTON — Another government shutdown is on its way. ● Since the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis sparked nationwide uproar, there’s little hope on Capitol Hill for an eleventh-hour miracle in the next few days to...

BUNDLE UP!

A leak at the top of the world is surging toward the tropics with the coldest air for South Florida since the brazen winter of 2010 when reptiles perished en masse, sugarcane fields withered and fish floated to the top of ponds rotten and milky...