SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The next blow in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ battle to fly migrants out of Texas could land in Delaware. Officials in Delaware said they were preparing for the possible arrival of a flight of migrants from Texas Tuesday afternoon. The plane…
Hurricane Fiona is getting stronger, and 2 other systems could turn into depressions
Hurricane Fiona, which left devastating damage in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, is bringing stormy conditions to the Turks and Caicos Tuesday morning as a Category 3 storm. Forecasters are also monitoring two other systems in the Atlantic tha…
Shutdown ordered as Turks and Caicos Islands brace for Hurricane Fiona
As an already catastrophic Hurricane Fiona set its sights on the Turks and Caicos Islands after making landfall in the Dominican Republic and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the government of the British territory just south of Florida issued shutdo…
Already flooded, Puerto Rico awaits intense rains and floods in aftermath of Hurricane Fiona
Hurricane Fiona is expected to continue dumping water in Puerto Rico on Monday, exacerbating flooding in communities catastrophically devastated by the storm. Lee-ann Ingles-Serrano, a National Weather Service meteorologist in San Juan, told the Miami …
Restaurants in Miami, Miami Beach, Key West named the most iconic in Florida
MIAMI — When it comes to iconic restaurants, South Florida has the rest of the state beat. Recently the travel website Trips to Discover ranked the most iconic restaurans in Florida, and four of them are in South Florida. If you live here, you will not…
Tropical storm now Hurricane Fiona as it begins to blow through Puerto Rico
MIAMI — Tropical Storm Fiona is now Hurricane Fiona after the storm’s winds increased from 5 mph below hurricane strength to 5 mph into Category 1 status, the National Hurricane Center’s 11 a.m. EDT update said. The increased strength comes as Fiona hi…
Trevor Rogers leaves Marlins’ loss to Nationals with lat injury
Trevor Rogers left in the second inning of the Miami Marlins’ 5-3 loss to the Washington Nationals on Saturday at Nationals Park with left lat discomfort. Rogers had faced just seven batters on Saturday before he left the mound. He gave up two runs on …
This is how much Florida has paid an aviation company to relocate ‘unauthorized aliens’
MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration last week paid an aviation company $615,000 as part of a new Florida program to relocate undocumented immigrants out of the state, according to state records. Records show the company, Vertol Systems Company In…
Migrants leave Martha’s Vineyard for military base on Cape Cod
EDGARTOWN, Mass. — After two full days of sheltering in a Martha’s Vineyard Episcopalian parish, a group of traveling migrants from Venezuela was bused and ferried off the Massachusetts island on Friday morning. Amid teary-eyed farewell hugs, volunteer…
The Week Ahead: Bracing for a 1 percentage point ‘surprise’
The Federal Reserve is an institution that relies on confidence and consistency. Both have been shaken as the agency struggles to tamp down inflation and regain the trust of investors. Central bankers gather in Washington in the week ahead for a regula…