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Trump seeks trade win during Xi visit
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House on Sept. 24 for a state summit expected to be heavy on symbolism but light on substance, with both leaders keen to showcase stable ties despite a deep...
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Trump on Venezuela: To victor goes the oil
President Donald Trump boasted at the United Nations that to the “victor belong the spoils” in touting what he called a record-setting oil deal with Venezuela’s ruling regime. The president’s comments come as the already slow pace of a democratic...
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Publix BOGO vs. Walmart, Aldi
Publix’s BOGO specials are a big draw for Florida’s largest grocery chain, but do they really save you money versus shopping elsewhere? USA TODAY Network-Florida on Sept. 16 and 17 compared prices of 10 Buy One, Get One Free items at Publix to prices...
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Camp David-like golf retreat mulled
Palm Beach County has directed its staff to explore an offer from President Donald Trump to build a Camp David-like retreat at Trump International Golf Club. The details of the offer, first disclosed by The Palm Beach Post, remain sparse, but the...
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Citrus CRISIS
Citrus greening, a pandemic blamed for killing over 90% of Florida’s citrus production, has gained a foothold across all major citrus-producing states in the United States — Florida, California, Texas and, most recently, Arizona. Editor’s note:In...
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INDEX
History ................. 12A InFocus ................. 14A Sunshine Living ...... 17A Local ......................... 33A Sports .......................... 1B Weekend Exclusive... 1D Business ...................... 1E Accent...
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Study: FL grocery shoppers pay more than most states
As consumer prices continue to climb, a new report recently ranked grocery prices in Florida among the highest in the country. The report by Self Financial compared prices of the same 30 essential grocery items at Walmart stores in all 50 states, as...
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Housed in squalor
The men of Alligator Alcatraz lived in the equivalent of cages, drinking dirty water out of dirty cups and eating food stored at temperatures that let it spoil. They lived with 30 men crammed into quarters built for 11. They bathed in bug-infested...
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Fed raises rates for first time in 3 years
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve policymakers responded to stubborn inflation by opting to raise their benchmark short-term interest rates for the first time in three years on Sept. 16, just days after President Donald Trump said the United States should...
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USPS mail ballot changes blocked
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 14 declined to let the U.S. Postal Service tighten the use of mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide control of Congress. The ruling was a loss for President Donald Trump,...
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How to save as gas rises
Gasoline prices have topped $4 per gallon in Florida and are higher than that at many stations across Palm Beach County, consistently one of the most expensive markets for fuel in the state. Florida gas prices spiked recently to $4.07 a gallon on...
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Expert: ‘Plenty of blame’ in deadly Amazon plane crash
More than a week after an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport, slamming into two vehicles, killing five people and injuring another five, people are still questioning how this happened. Officials with the National...
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WHAT WE DO Divided nation?
It’s been about a year since Frank Cerabino, The Palm Beach Post’s longtime columnist, decided to retire from the paper and pick up his pickleball paddle full time. Frank entertained, educated, poked and prodded Palm Beach County readers for 34 years....
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Etched in memory
NEW YORK – As the United States marked 25 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Americans across the country gathered to honor the nearly 3,000 people who perished and reflect on the day that forever changed the nation. A quarter-century...
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THEY NEVER FORGET
In memoriam See the names of the 2,977 victims of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Inside Palm Beach police chief, a 9/11 responder, shares story for first time. The World Trade Center billows with smoke after hijackers crashed planes into the north...
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NYC releases 9/11 air quality data, records
NEW YORK – Shortly before the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, New York City’s law department has released reams of data and records about the air quality on and after Sept. 11, 2001. About 170,000 pages of records are now accessible...
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Official hails deal
Palm Beach County Administrator Joe Abruzzo will ask commissioners this month to approve a deal with Related Ross to develop a second convention center hotel in downtown West Palm Beach, a project that he and Related Ross say could generate as much as...
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Texan captures crown
WEST PALM BEACH — Miss Texas is now Miss America. Regan Hutsell won the 2027 crown on Sept. 6 during a ceremony at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, capping a week of competition featuring contestants from all of the 50...
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Outbreak shows health system under strain
YPSILANTI, MI – During the height of the summer outbreak of cyclosporiasis, Dea Lancaster set aside her usual duties as nurse coordinator at Michigan’s Washtenaw County Health Department to call patients, asking about their symptoms and tracing the...
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REMEMBERING SEPT. 11, 2001
Sometimes when I’m about to go to bed, I do one last flip through the TV channels to make sure I didn’t miss anything I may need to know for my job the next day. When I stumble across a show about Pearl Harbor, I always pause. The grainy...
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Journalist, feminist icon Steinem dies
Civil rights activist and journalist Gloria Steinem died Sept. 2, at age 92, according to her official Instagram page. Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her,” the post read....
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Woods convicted of lesser charges
STUART — Tiger Woods’ driver’s license was suspended for five years and he will pay $1,500 in fines in a plea agreement made at a hearing Sept. 2 at the Martin County Courthouse. Woods, 50, was charged with DUI following a crash on Jupiter Island on...
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Weighing options
Two more old condominium complexes along the West Palm Beach waterfront could be purchased by real estate developers wanting to tear them down and rebuild new luxury high-rise residential towers on their sites. The bulk purchase offers come as the...
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Iran’s leader says he still wants talks to end the war
DUBAI – Iran is still seeking a negotiated solution to its conflict with the United States, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Aug. 31, a day after the two countries resumed hostilities for the first time since late July, driving oil prices up more...
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Florida’s economy reshapes election
Florida’s affordability problems are top talking points for candidates up and down the ballot from both parties – with property insurance and taxes the chief targets. But the state’s cost of living woes run much deeper. For many Floridians, home...
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AIrrIvALs
It’s got a new name. So, what’s next for President Donald J. Trump International Airport? Fifth in a five-part series.
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Dems make use of grand jury leak
Sensing a political opening, Florida Democrats pounced after a leaked grand jury report concluded that the administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis misused $10 million in taxpayer money from a Medicaid settlement intended for needy children’s...
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Donalds picks Avila as his running mate
MIAMI – Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds’ choice of Cuban-American state Sen. Bryan Avila as a running mate defines the GOP attack in the stretch run to November’s general election, while shoring up the South Florida bulwark that served...
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Global forecasters track potential tropical storms
Amid the peak of hurricane season, meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center were tracking nine different storms and potential storms early Aug. 24, including seven in the Pacific Ocean and two in the Atlantic Ocean. In Hawaii, residents won a...
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Florida home sales stay on hot streak
There’s encouraging news for those looking to sell homes in Florida — provided they keep things in perspective. For the 11th month in a row, Florida Realtors in July sold more homes than they did a year ago. On the whole, those homes also sold for...
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NEXT WEEK:
What’s the future of flight expansion at DJT? The airport has a new name, what comes next?
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FL grocery spending exceeds most states
As grocery prices keep climbing, a new national report has ranked Florida tied with two other states as having the country’s sixth-highest average weekly grocery costs. The ranking by WorldPopulationReview.com coincides with the issuing of the...
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Hurricane forecast below normal, but models keep an eye on tropical wave
A leading hurricane forecast is betting large on a sleepy tropical Atlantic through Sept. 1 but isn’t promising a total strikeout as hurricane prediction models home in on a buzzy wave leaving Africa next week. Colorado State University, which issues...
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PARTY OF TWO
WEST PALM BEACH – In a year where progressive challengers have unseated incumbents, U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel was having none of it. She easily won the Aug. 18 Democratic primary in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District. The West Palm Beach resident...
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Report describes sex abuse allegations against Caruso
Editor’s note: The following article contains depictions of child sexual abuse which may be disturbing to readers. Michael Caruso told his son not to report allegations that he sexually abused a young relative, warning that he would “get arrested” and...
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Trump orders reduction in joint drills with S. Korea
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Aug. 16 instructed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” joint military exercises with long-term Asian ally South Korea, citing the cost of the drills and Seoul’s refusal to take part in actions against...
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FL leads in liens for home, condo owners
Liens filings by homeowners associations, including condominium associations, are on the rise both nationally as well as in Florida, according to a new report. The Sunshine State accounted for more than 1 in 6 of all filings in the United States in...
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50 ways to build a city
New apartments. New centers. Same roads. Real estate developers may have a freer hand to build dense projects, but it also means they know the burden falls on them to make sure people either living or working in their projects can actually get to...
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MAYOR ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT
A former aide to Palm Beach County Mayor Sara Baxter has accused her of pressuring the aide into a sexual relationship with “a potential wealthy donor,” according to a whistleblower complaint. When she refused, the former county employee alleged in the...
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How AG became state’s biggest culture warrior
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier had no qualms defying a federal judge’s order. The state’s chief state legal officer said he even would be willing to go to jail. The showdown occurred in 2025 when U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered...
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Consumer prices ticked up in July
Although U.S. consumer prices ticked up in July, the annual inflation rate again eased a bit, the Labor Department said Aug. 12. From June to July, consumer prices rose 0.1%, in line with forecasters’ expectations. Over the year, they were up 3.4% –...
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Critics take aim at Trump vaxx order
President Donald Trump hailed his new order on childhood vaccines as a win for parental choice as doctors slammed the move, saying it could lead to greater risk of diseases that were rarely seen for generations. Trump signed an executive order Aug. 10...
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WELCOME BACK
The first day of school in the Palm Beach County School District got off to a warm and sunny start Aug. 10, as tens of thousands of students poured onto more than 180 campuses, where they were greeted with excitement and high energy. Superintendent...
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Keeping it local
In the Republican primary for Florida House District 87 — a stretch of coastal Palm Beach County that includes President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence — the candidates are focusing on local issues rather than seeking the president’s...
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And robotaxis
Air taxis, highspeed trains anddriverless autos are here. Can AI and other technology get us there faster? Second in a five-part series.
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Sports retailer closer to Gardens Mall debut
In addition to selling sports equipment, the House of Sports locations offer in-store experiences such as rock climbing walls, batting cages and golf simulators. TOP: The proposed Dick’s House of Sport at The Gardens Mall in Palm Beach Gardens....
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STRUCTURE PROBLEMS
A report on the soundness of high-rise residential buildings across Florida did not list any unsafe condominium complexes in the Palm Beaches, but whether that provides reassurance is debatable. According to the recently released report, based on a...
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BOOM
More than 200,000 people from other states switched driver’s licenses to Florida in the first half of 2026, the most since 2023, according to state Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles data. “We transferred our driver’s licenses to Florida...
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County, Transit Village settle long-running suit
A transportation hub in downtown West Palm Beach is one step closer to being built following the settlement of a long-running lawsuit between a private investor group and Palm Beach County. This means that the Transit Village investment group soon...
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‘Barren’ Atlantic points to hurricane-free early Aug.
Twenty-two years ago, a tropical wave spun off western Africa on Aug. 4. It was not particularly impressive and ambled west, reaching the Caribbean Sea five days later. But as August tropical cyclones aspire to do, it gorged on summerwarmed Caribbean...
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Incarcerated Tate brothers looking to unmask accusers on social media
One of the first things Elon Musk did when he bought Twitter was to reinstate the accounts of Andrew and Tristan Tate, the brothers currently detained in a Miami federal detention center awaiting possible extradition to face charges of rape, assault...
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Uneas iders
Today’s edition of The Pam Beach Post launches an in-depth, five-part series on an issue that affects every resident of the Palm Beaches: transportation. More than a generation’s worth of transit projects, bridges, extra highway lanes, additional...
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Crocs find unexpected strategy for survival
An American crocodile was found lounging in a Key Largo pool on Jan. 31, 2025. It left after being confronted by a Monroe County sheriff’s deputy armed with a shovel. In the hardened coastal landscapes of South Florida where solid seawalls replaced...
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Threat to Suez prompts fears of a wider war
DUBAI – A drone strike on gas vessels in Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta signaled a potential new front in the U.S.-Iran war, raising the prospect of threats to navigation through the Suez Canal, a last remaining safe export route for Saudi...
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Outbreak infects 6 here
As Cyclosporiasis cases rise in Palm Beach County, people are questioning where they get their lettuce from. Six people in the county have been infected by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora — which can cause explosive diarrhea — since the start of...
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‘Serious dysfunction at the top of the party’
Prominent Republicans, nationally and statewide, got behind U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds and his $95 million war chest to be the next governor of Florida with one notable exception: Gov. Ron DeSantis. Arguably the most popular Republican in the state,...
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IRAN APPEARS TO TEST U.S. PAUSE
DUBAI — Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq reported drone attacks July 27, two days after the United States abruptly suspended a two-week campaign of air strikes against Iran, as Tehran appeared to put President Donald Trump’s latest strategic U-turn to the...
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‘People still want to buy homes in Florida’
Florida’s housing market picked up steam in June as Realtors for the 10th straight month sold more homes than the year before. The median sale price rose to $432,000, a new record high. “It’s not often that you have more closed sales in June than in...
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Sheriff ’s plan for special taxing district stirs debate
The move to create a special taxing district for the Palm Beach County sheriff is expected to have uneven impacts, reducing the property tax burden on municipal residents while increasing it for those in unincorporated areas — and potentially fueling...
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CONGRESS DIVIDED OVER WAR IN IRAN
Congress split July 23 on whether to tell President Donald Trump to withdraw troops from Iran, as the war escalated into the Red Sea and the president threatened greater harm to Iran if maritime hostilities continue. The House of Representatives voted...
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DHS: Immigration arrests hit a record
After a three-month delay, the longest in its recent history, the Department of Homeland Security on July 20 published detention numbers that show immigration enforcement activity grew again under Secretary Markwayne Mullin. The figures show...
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Lebanese president makes rare visit to United States
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump welcomed the president of Lebanon to the White House July 21 as he insisted that Iran “desperately” wants to meet to end the war. Trump made the assertion pushing back at a reporter who claimed in a question that...
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Iran war claims 17th U.S. service member
A17th U.S. service member has been killed in the war with Iran, U.S. Central Command confirmed on X, in northern Iraq on July 18 during the controlled detonation of an “unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone.” h That service...
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PRICED OUT OF HOMEOWNERSHIP
While home prices in Florida are no longer escalating like they did during COVID boom, the Sunshine State’s housing affordability crisis is worsening, not getting better, a new national report has found. For retail clerks and restaurant servers...
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A JOURNEY THAT SHAPED A STATE
Named after the crack of their whips, the Florida Crackers herded cattle across the state hundreds of years ago. Today, there is an annual reenactment of the Cracker Trail.
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Trump has voted by mail, wants it restricted
President Donald Trump again called for restrictions on mail-in voting during his nationally televised speech on July 16, a process he himself has used to cast votes in Florida elections. “Hopefully, there will be no corrupt mail-in ballots,” the...
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Data center denied
Palm Beach County commissioners on July 15 rejected a plan to build a hyperscale data center near Arden in Loxahatchee, following a contentious 12-hourplus public hearing that saw deputies remove four residents for being disruptive. The vote against...
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Trump overturns traffic stop pause
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump overturned an order to suspend most immigration-related traffic stops one day after administration officials announced the pause following the deadly shootings of two people in Maine and Texas by federal agents, a...
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‘Just proud that we can serve... and help people’
JUPITER — Three decades as a firefighter and 14 years on rescue crews prepared Sam Adler for the job he took on in La Guaira, Venezuela, but maybe not the bravery he witnessed or the tears of joy he cried when it was finished. Adler and Battalion...
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Advocates defend gators after spate of FL attacks
Alligators attacked four people in Florida during a two-week span this summer. One woman lost her life, a young boy lost his hand, and a septuagenarian fought off one of the prehistoric reptiles that walked the Earth with dinosaurs, but who in recent...
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1 in 7 homes for sale across U.S. are in FL
Florida now accounts for one in seven of all homes for sale in America even though the Sunshine State only has 8% of the nation’s housing stock, a new national report has found. “The Florida for-sale market is flashing warning signs,” wrote Jason...
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WHAT WE DO How the Florida Highwaymen paved the way for art
Today’s cover story by Laurie K. Blandford on the Florida Highwaymen, a group of 26 Black artists who went on the road to sell their paintings starting in the 1950s, was a picture of the past that’s signifcant for our present and, hopefully, telling...
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Castro heir says he wants a Trump deal
HAVANA – The corded phone near Raúl Castro’s desk buzzed inside his wood-paneled office like it was 1984. Cuba’s former president, brother to Fidel, was waiting at home for news from his lunch date: his favorite grandson, his right-hand man, Raúl...
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