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Associated PressFebruary 6, 2017

Hotel tax revenue in Miami-Dade has dropped at a rate not seen since the Great Recession, a decline in public money some attribute to tourists afraid of the Zika virus. Hotel taxes in December fell from the amount generated the previous year — the fourth month in a row that happened. It is a slump […]

Associated PressFebruary 5, 2017

Since President Donald Trump opened the gold-infused ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort almost 12 years ago, it has been a popular rental for the American Red Cross, hospitals, medical researchers and other charities for fundraising galas where the wealthiest donors are wined and dined, often netting $1 million or more. But Trump’s election puts charities […]

Associated PressFebruary 5, 2017

Melissa McCarthy lampooned White House press secretary Sean Spicer in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch where she taunted reporters as “losers,” fired a water gun at the press corps and even used the lectern to ram a Wall Street Journal journalist. “SNL” opened with Alec Baldwin reprising his President Donald Trump and phoning foreign leaders […]

Associated PressFebruary 5, 2017

A federal appeals court denied early Sunday the Justice Department’s request for an immediate reinstatement of President Donald Trump’s ban on accepting certain travelers and all refugees. The Trump administration appealed a temporary order restraining the ban nationwide, saying late Saturday night that the federal judge in Seattle overreached by “second-guessing” the president on a […]

Associated PressFebruary 5, 2017

About three thousand demonstrators marched Saturday near President Donald Trump‘s Florida estate to protest his now-blocked executive order temporarily limiting immigration. The protest began with a rally outside Trump Plaza in West Palm Beach. They marched two miles to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, where the International Red Cross was holding a fundraiser. Protesters shouted anti-Trump slogans […]

Associated PressFebruary 4, 2017

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The Latest on a lawsuit by Washington and Minnesota seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s immigration ban (all times local): 7: 20 p.m. The White House says it will seek an emergency stay of a federal judge’s order that temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries. White House spokesman […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 4, 2017

Jesse Panuccio, the former head of the state’s jobs agency, is taking a job with President Donald Trump‘s administration at the Department of Justice, according to sources familiar with the hire. Panuccio, reached as he was boarding a plane to Washington, D.C., declined comment. However, a third source, close to Panuccio and the Trump administration, says that Panuccio will […]

Staff ReportsFebruary 4, 2017

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Army abruptly withdrew his name from consideration late Friday night, citing his inability to get around strict Defense Department rules concerning his family businesses. Vincent Viola, founder of digital stock trading firm Virtu Financial and owner of the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers, had been working through the confirmation […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterFebruary 3, 2017

Congressman Francis Rooney is calling on Donald Trump to support Everglades restoration, with a letter to the president saying that Everglades restoration “has far-ranging impacts to the entire state of Florida and the rest of the country.” Signed by the entire Florida delegation, the two-page letter was dated Friday. The letter asks that Trump prepares his fiscal […]

Scott PowersFebruary 3, 2017

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Citing email obtained through open-records requests, NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer declared the League of Women Voters of Florida as “Florida’s newest gun ban organization,” working in secret. “The League of Women Voters is not who you think they are. The Florida League of Women Voters is Florida’s newest gun ban organization,” Hammer wrote in a letter […]

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Three people were killed in an accident on the Florida Turnpike in St. Lucie County on Aug. 12. Image via Treasure Coast Newspapers.

Fueled by Zika fears, Miami’s hotel tax revenue sags

Activists: Charities must move galas from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

With Melissa McCarthy playing Sean Spicer, ‘SNL’ cranks up Donald Trump satire

Appeals court denies Trump request to immediately restore travel ban

Thousands march near Mar-a-Lago, protest Trump’s travel ban

Federal government seeks stay of immigration order

Jesse Panuccio taking job with Donald Trump administration

Florida Panthers owner withdraws as Trump’s Army secretary nominee

Florida congressional delegation asks Donald Trump to support Everglades restoration

NRA declares League of Women Voters as ‘gun ban organization’