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Miami’s mayoral election has been framed as a political earthquake, but those sweeping claims don’t hold water. They do, however, evince the ignorance of all too many, across party lines, about the actual power structure in the city, Miami-Dade County, and Florida. What happened in the mayoral runoff deserves attention, but it is hardly the warning siren some Democrat operatives want it to be, nor is it a reason for Republicans to panic. Miami politics simply don’t function the way national narratives assume. Let’s start with what this race actually was. The “nonpartisan” mayor of Miami holds a largely ceremonial...

Democrat Eileen Higgins has flipped the Miami mayor’s office, defeating Republican Emilio Gonzalez and marking the latest sign of the party’s momentum heading into next year’s midterms, according to Decision Desk HQ. Higgins is the first Democrat to become mayor of Miami since 1997. She bested Gonzalez, a former Miami city manager who served on President Trump’s Homeland Security Department transition team, to succeed incumbent Mayor Francis Suarez (R). The race is technically nonpartisan.

Hispanic voters — crucial to Trump’s 2024 victory — are abandoning him in significant numbers. Sure, the Hispanic flight from the Trump camp is slower among Cuban Americans and Venezuelan Americans in Florida, but the cracks are already visible. In New Jersey, Trump won 46% of the Latino vote in 2024. But this time, Trump-backed Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli got only 31% of the Hispanic vote in the Nov. 4 election, CNN exit polls show. The Democratic winner, Mikie Sherrill, won by a landslide, thanks in part to the Latino vote. In heavily Hispanic Passaic County, where Trump won...

MARATHON, FLA. (WSVN) - Three people were arrested after authorities in the Florida Keys say they were found having sex while heavily intoxicated in a Winn-Dixie parking lot in the middle of the day. Deputies were called to the grocery store lot around 12 p.m. on Saturday, where they found all three individuals engaged in sexual acts, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. All were taken to jail.

"At some point, the lady who was seated, the 70-year-old woman, asked the woman who was standing if she could give her some space, that sparked an argument," said Carey Codd, Broward Sheriff's Office spokesperson. That argument then began to escalate, with officials saying the attacker intentionally and forcefully pushed her own body into the victim several times.

Anna Kepner, a teen who died aboard a Carnival Horizon cruise ship earlier this month, was found dead under a bed, wrapped in a blanket and covered by life vests, according to a security source briefed on the investigation. The 18-year-old cheerleader from Titusville, Florida, was reported dead while aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship on Nov. 8. The Miami-Dade medical examiner has not specified a cause or manner of her death. Among the avenues investigators are looking at is whether there might have been some sort of altercation with her stepbrother prior to her death, the source told ABC...

Jack Doherty was arrested in Florida on Saturday. The YouTube star, 22, was booked into the Miami-Dade County jail on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 8:48 a.m., per county records. Doherty was charged with possession of a controlled substance, listed as amphetamine, possession of marijuana and resisting arrest. The Post reached out to Doherty, as well as the Miami Police Department for comment. Prior to his arrest, Doherty posted on his Instagram Stories on Friday night, showing off a yacht he was on and sharing a link to the app Parti. Doherty’s bond was set at $3,500, and has since been...

A dramatic bid to block Donald Trump's presidential library from being built in Miami is being masterminded by an 85-year-old retired professor who has repeatedly compared the Republican to Adolf Hitler. Dr. Marvin Dunn, 85, who has claimed Trump's use of the state to target political enemies is 'no different' from the German dictator, launched the legal case that is threatening to upend ambitious plans for the commander in chief's legacy. It makes Trump the latest president to face problems over his library, which is expected to house a massive archive of two terms of records and artifacts, including a...

VIDEODonde estan los Latinos?The most striking thing about the "No Kings" protest in downtown Miami is the almost complete LACK of Latin (Hispanic) folks in a protest composed almost entirely of non-Hispanic whites in a city which is over 70% Latino. This weird demographic situation is made even more stark by the fact that the only Latin person there seems to be the reporter you hear from a leftist Spanish language YouTube Channel. Yes, I'm sure there are probably a handful of Latin people at this protest but they appear to be well hidden among the crowd composed overwhelmingly of...

A South Florida business is turning childbirth into a passport to the American dream. The booming business is called Have My Baby in Miami and offers maternity services to foreigners. While President Donald Trump is pushing to end birthright citizenship, experts say the practice is constitutional. Have My Baby in Miami is a concierge service for foreigners who want to have their baby on U.S. soil. “Once you arrive in the USA, we recommend you obtain an American SIM card,” the company says on its website. The Have My Baby in Miami website says it offers “complete logistical support.” The...

You need conservatives to be afraid of getting killed when they go to events so they look to their leadership to turn down the temperature,” Bonnell said. “The issue is right now they don’t feel like there is any fear – like, I don’t know

Democrats and NPA (Not politically affiliated) voters made up the vast majority of Miami-Dade’s recent roll reductions. Leaders of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party are accusing recently elected Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia, a longtime Republican operative and former state lawmaker, of using her new post to tilt the county’s voter composition in her party’s favor. They’re now diving into public records, they say, to determine whether — and to what extent — the Supervisor of Elections (SOE) Office has manipulated voter rolls since November. More than a quarter-million Miami-Dade voters have been removed from the county’s active voter rolls in...

VIDEOThose of you who live in South Florida might know about Democrat pollster Fernand Amandi. He was a host on WIOD Radio in Miami in the months leading up to the 2016 election. This shmuck's big shtick was inviting callers who supported Trump to tell why they think Trump could win that election... and then he proceeded to mock them. Oh, how Amandi laughed at anybody who claimed Trump could win. It was all great fun for Fernand Amandi to mock Trump supporters ...until Election Day. After that poor Fernand suffered a mental breakdown of such epic proportions that WIOD...

He’s not laughing now. A Miami doofus shouted “Psych!” at a cop and laughed in his face while starting to flee a traffic stop — only to almost immediately crash his sports car into a tractor-trailer, police said. Eduardo Barbaro Gonzalez, 42, was spotted by a Miami officer engaging in what appeared to be a drug deal in a shopping center parking lot around 11 p.m. Wednesday when he saw the cop’s marked car and tried to pull away in his Dodge Charger. The officer pulled his cruiser in front of Gonzalez’s car and lowered his window to try and...

Former NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater has been suspended from his position as a high school football coach in Miami for allegedly providing impermissible benefits to his players. Bridgewater, 32, confirmed his suspension by Miami Northwestern in a Facebook post Sunday but said he remains committed to his alma mater. "The suspension came from MNW and it's impossible to suspend someone who doesn't work for you. So if im suspended from MNW im free to go to another school of my choice but IM NOT GOING ANYWHERE. "And if it comes down to it, I will volunteer from the bleachers like...

MIAMI – A Miami man was sentenced to life in federal prison after pleading guilty to traveling to Colombia for the purpose of having sex with minors.According to court documents, law enforcement officers stopped Stefan Andres Correa, 42, on the jet bridge at Miami International Airport as he attempted to board a flight to Bogota, Colombia. During an outbound border search, officers discovered nine cellular phones in Correa’s possession. A search of the cellular phones uncovered over 100 videos of Correa having sex with over 50 minors. The minors were between 11 and 17 years of age. A search of...

Police in Miami-Dade County are seeking former NFL star Antonio Brown for attempted murder related to a shooting at a May celebrity boxing match, the Washington Post reported The warrant was signed by a judge on Wednesday and listed a charge of attempted murder with a firearm. The incident reportedly occurred just after midnight on May 16 in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami and Brown had initially been detained by police and released hours later. The warrant, viewed by the outlet, called for Brown to post a $10,000 bond and remain under house arrest.

Rep. Carlos Giménez plans to tour Florida facilities holding immigration detainees following a Miami Herald investigation into harsh conditions and use of force at the Federal Detention Center in Miami. The federal lawmaker said that he first learned about the reported conditions at FDC Miami when a journalist from the Washington Journal’s C-Span program asked him about the Herald story this morning. “I will be investigating those conditions,” said the Miami Republican during an interview on Capitol Hill. “Right now is the first I’ve heard of it.” The Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami has been housing detainees in civil...

"...like at what point in time when you see somebody on your hood, like common sense would tell you stop the car immediately whether it's a cop or it's a pedestrian ..."

Remember this story from 2018? An armed man shot up the lobby of the Trump National Doral Hotel in Miami (see update), forcing a temporary evacuation while the perp dragged around an American flag. One police subdued him, Jonathan Oddi went off on weird rants during his police interrogation, claiming to have been part of a sex-trafficking ring run by Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and other rappers, while also spewing some nonsensical claims about Barack Obama and Donald Trump as well. Police at the time figured Oddi was in a manic-psychotic state after having stopped taking meds. Well, back that...