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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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Antonio Fins Business / Politics editor
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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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‘A special moment’
Donald Trump’s sons and about two dozen officials became the first passengers to touch down at the newly minted President Donald J. Trump International Airport on July 9. To beat the United Parcel Service, the airport’s typical first arrival, the...
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‘Missing that final piece’
WEST PALM BEACH — At about 1 a.m. Monday, Connor Blais texted his partner to say he was heading home after his bartending shift at O’Shea’s Irish Pub on Clematis Street. But Lawrence Cassenti said he never felt the usual rub on the knee that Connor...
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‘I’m not a criminal’
FORT LAUDERDALE — The tears fell in torrents and the sobs were audible paces away as Olga Perez embraced her four children and made a vow before leaving them to grow up on their own in the nation where they are citizens — and where she is not. “We are...
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Sheriff ’s budget faces pushback
Palm Beach County Administrator Joe Abruzzo has called on county commissioners to cut Sheriff Ric Bradshaw’s record $1.2 billion budget by $20 million to help balance a budget facing a $42 million deficit. County commissioners are expected to decide...
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NEW NORMS
Concerns over rising mortgage rates — causing home sales in Florida to languish — are starting to fade as Realtors reported an uptick in sales in May for the ninth straight month. The reason? A leveling off of rates for new mortgage loans. On June 25,...
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ICE releases nun detained in Texas
A Catholic nun who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers while walking to Sunday Mass in southern Texas has been released after intervention from members of Congress, officials said. Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja was...
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‘If they can see it, they can trust it’
Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Wendy Sartory Link gave the public a series of tours of the ballot creating and counting process to boost confidence in it as President Donald Trump and other Republicans continue to make unfounded claims about...
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Trump reports $1.4B in crypto venture income
President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income tied to his family’s cryptocurrency ventures in 2025, making digital assets the largest driver of his earnings, according to an annual financial disclosure released June 30. The 927-page...
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High court upholds birthright citizenship
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump called on Congress to take action ending birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court on June 30 rejected his attempt to redefine who is born American, a centerpiece of his hard-line approach to immigration. “The...
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Heat wave is bad here, perilous overseas
The season for that feeling your hands might melt into the steering wheel has begun — but be warned, that’s hardly the worst effect that scorching days present. h Record weekend temperatures in Florida and reports that Europe is in the grips of the...
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Shrinking industry
Rising prices for fresh fruits and vegetables are a big concern for consumers these days, but higher prices may be what’s needed to keep Florida farmers in business. Between 2017 and 2022, Florida lost 2,887 farms and 30,331 acres of farmland sold to...
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WHAT WE DO
1 Property tax proposal could hot local budcets hard Palm Beach County governments could lose hundreds of millions annually if voters approve a proposed property tax cut in November, according to Property Appraiser Dorothy Jacks. The plan, backed by...
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Death toll rising from Venezuela earthquakes
The death toll after a doublet of devastating earthquakes in Venezuela soared to more than 500 as of June 26 as crews worked to comb through rubble for signs of life. The quakes, with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, struck within one minute of each other...
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Back-to-back quakes
Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodrı́guez said an initial fund of $200 million would be created using resources from the International Monetary Fund dedicated to rebuilding infrastructure, after back-to-back major earthquakes struck the country’s...
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SNAP cuts increase Florida hunger risk
INDIAN ROCKS BEACH — A mother of three small children, Paige Salmon was among more than 277,000 people in Florida who lost federal nutrition benefits under legislation passed by Congress. Now, she needs a food pantry to help feed the family. “It just...
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Slow-motion horror
On the eve of the five-year anniversary of the Surfside condominium disaster, a new federal report reveals that the condominium collapse did not happen in an instant, but was rather the result of a slowmotion chain reaction that started weeks before...
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Dust dampens hurricane chances
Another slug of Saharan air filters into Florida this week, dampening rain chances in the burning southern reaches of the state and contributing to a tropical cyclone hibernation that may last well past the July 4 holiday. Weather Trader meteorologist...
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A hunt for bargains
This is the third of three stories about how Florida residents are coping with higher food prices. Ormond Beach resident Sarah Tanner and her husband, Luis Pineda, have become experts over the years in figuring out ways to make ends meet while...
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The one his dad still talks about
The journalism bug hit me early, and by the time I got to high school — J.P. Taravella High School in Coral Springs — I was working for the school newspaper. I remember writing an in-depth article about our school’s star football player, Dan Morgan. I...
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As store prices rise, some FL families skip fresh food
This is the first of three stories about how Florida residents are coping with higher food prices. One in three Floridians are cutting back on buying fresh produce because of escalating prices and 70% say their financial situation has worsened because...
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Quick exit at Nora
Juliana’s Pizza arrived in West Palm Beach with one of the strongest pedigrees in the business. Less than a year later, it’s closed. The Brooklyn-born pizzeria, an offshoot of the Grimaldi’s legacy, was founded by pizza icon Patsy Grimaldi, whose...
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Report: Housing crisis is worsening
Housing is fundamental. We all need a roof over our heads. We all need someplace to raise our families, cook our meals, escape from the world. With that in mind this year’s “State of the Nation’s Housing,” a report produced every year by Harvard...
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Could lawsuit derail Project Tango plan?
An AI data center proposed for the western suburbs will be considered by the Palm Beach County Commission in July. But even if the center is approved, could a newly filed lawsuit derail the project, anyway? WPB Logistics, a real estate development...
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U.S. DEAL WITH IRAN LEAVES UNCERTAINTY
The United States and Iran were set to begin a week of high-stakes diplomacy after announcing June 14 a framework deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a preliminary agreement that has already pushed oil prices lower but leaves the fate...
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Marina stirs talk in Riviera Beach
A new convention center in Riviera Beach, the centerpiece of Forest Development’s plans to transform the city’s marina district, will be much smaller than the Palm Beach Convention Center, Forest representatives have told City Council...
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10 years of grief
A lot can happen in a decade. We went from the Beatles to the moon in the 1960s. Thomas Edison lit the world with electric light. But some things linger, like the pain of losing a child, a sibling, a friend. The ink of trauma and grief leaves an...
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‘Devastating’ ruling
Olga Perez, one of the few translators of a rare Mayan dialect in Florida, will be deported to her native Guatemala next month, leaving behind her four U.S.citizen children living in Lake Worth Beach. Federal Immigration Judge Benjamin S. Kuipers on...
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Inflation keeps eroding families’ buying power
Consumer prices rose again in May, Labor Department data showed, further squeezing Americans’ budgets as consumer sentiment sat at record lows. The department’s Consumer Price Index, its measure of inflation, saw prices rise 0.5% from April to May....
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FBI fights negligence suit over Epstein tips
The U.S. government has moved to quash a lawsuit about the FBI’s failure to investigate early Jeffrey Epstein tips, arguing its agents were “not required to investigate every complaint” they heard. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kelsi Romero and Steven...
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Viral Dubai chocolate everywhere in Florida
The Iran war-imposed closure of the Strait of Hormuz has caused prices to soar for gasoline and all sorts of goods, but not the Dubai chocolates that seem to be everywhere these days. h That’s because most “Dubai chocolate” or “Dubai-style” chocolate...
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Gold Coast?
Reading today’s Palm Beach Post front-page story by Antonio Fins on Donald Trump’s multiple news-making trips to Mar-a-Lago in the first year of his second presidential term got me thinking about gold. We all know the president’s fondness for gold,...
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Forecast for D-Day changed history
To go or not to go? h June 2026 marks 82 years since Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief meteorologist, Group Capt. James Martin Stagg, made one of the most important weather forecasts of all time. h Defying his colleagues, he advised the general to...
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House votes to end war in Iran
In a severe political blow to President Donald Trump, the House of Representatives on June 3 voted for the first time to end the war with Iran. The 215-208 vote, which was mostly symbolic, marked a new period of congressional unease with the conflict...
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School funds exempted from property tax plan
Legislation calling for the eventual elimination of homestead property taxes now carves out public schools, a move that, according to one analysis, could stop the Palm Beach County School District from losing nearly $1 billion. During a special...
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Trump, Netanyahu clash on Lebanon
President Donald Trump lit into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an expletive-laden call on June 1, multiple news outlets reported, after Iran threatened to pull out of peace talks with the United States over strikes on Hezbollah in...
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Tri-Rail funds in flux despite state budget OK
Tri-Rail, South Florida’s publicly funded passenger train, will regain state funding previously cut if Gov. Ron DeSantis approves Florida’s annual budget, which state lawmakers passed May 29. h Tri-Rail will get up to $60 million from the Florida...
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MISSING THE MARK
The renowned Top 10 list from Florida International University’s “Dr. Beach” highlighted three Sunshine State shorelines for their white sand and clear water, but one beach was notably excluded because of a prickly seafaring flora that has menaced...
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WHAT WE DO Hurricane season’s here, you’re probably not prepared
If you live in Florida, you know that hurricane season officially begins June 1. As USA TODAY Co.’s (and former Palm Beach Post reporter) Kim Miller explains in today’s A1 story, we’re thankful that the meteorologists and experts who do the...
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Artemis setback likely from rocket explosion
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stood tall on its Cape Canaveral launch pad for a prelaunch static fire test May 29 when plans for a future liftoff came to fiery end as the rocket exploded, briefly turning the Space Coast sky an apocalyptic orange. h...
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Booming cities
Palm Beach County taxable property values increased about 7% over the past year, according to preliminary estimates released May 27 by Property Appraiser Dorothy Jacks. “Somewhat similarly to 2025, we are seeing value increases focused in the new...
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PBC schools anticipate layoffs in wake of raises
There will be fewer teachers in the Palm Beach County School District this fall. A district spokesman said the district does “anticipate position eliminations and subsequent layoffs” in the aftermath of the 3.5% raise school board members approved for...
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