A fight between two groups inside a Walmart in a Miami suburb erupted in gunfire Wednesday afternoon, leaving one man dead, Miami-Dade police said. A suspect has been taken into custody.
The shooting, which sent panicked shoppers running for safety, occurred at a Walmart in Florida City shortly before 3 p.m. local time. A police spokesperson said a fight broke out between two groups of about three people, during which someone took out a gun and opened fire.
Investigators said one man, who had been involved in the altercation, died from his gunshot wounds after being flown to a local hospital. He was later identified by police as Nathaniel Baez, 23, CBS Miami reported.
“As soon as you hear those four bangs, screaming, it was like a stampede of people running,” one woman told CBS Miami.
Another man who sustained a gunshot wound to the foot during the ordeal was believed to be an innocent bystander and a woman suffered a head injury while trying to run from the scene, police said.
Officials said five other people were treated at the scene and released.
It’s unclear what initially prompted the altercation. Police did not immediately identify the suspect who was taken in custody.
Police said they were also searching for four other people who were involved in the fight but had fled the area. Miami-Dade police and Florida City police are investigating.
In a written statement provided to CBS News Miami, Walmart said that it was “deeply saddened by what took place in our Florida City store, and our thoughts are with the victim’s loved ones. The store is closed at this time. We will work closely with local law enforcement through the course of their investigation and will refer further questions to police.”
South Florida’s Fleet Week is moving to Miami next year after more than three decades in Fort Lauderdale, officials announced Friday.
U.S. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and other officials made the announcement at PortMiami. Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen will be in Miami-Dade County next year from May 7–13.
Fleet Week traditionally involves active military ships docking in major cities around the U.S. The ships’ crews enter the city and visit its tourist attractions while the public can take guided tours of the ships. Fleet Week is accompanied by military demonstrations and air shows.
A Florida man who testified against three former friends who murdered rap star XXXTentacion will spend two more years behind bars.
A gunman fatally shot a 12-year-old boy and wounded another man before turning the gun on himself inside a South Florida convenience store.
An off-duty Walmart employee fatally shot a customer who tried to help a female employee who had gotten into a fight with the off-duty employee, Florida law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden declared Florida’s Broward County a disaster area Friday, two weeks after record-breaking rain left parts of Fort Lauderdale and its suburbs flooded.
Broward County, located just north of Miami-Dade, began hosting Fleet Week Port Everglades in 1990. Port Everglades officials released a statement saying they’ve offered assistance to PortMiami in planning next year’s event.
MIAMI (AP) — A hamburger and drink combination called the Lionel Messi. A huge sketch of the soccer star’s smiling face on a restaurant wall beside a viral meme from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. A beer with a pink label matching the color of the Inter Miami jersey he will wear.
Wherever you turn in Miami these days something reminds you of the arrival of the Argentine soccer legend.
There is no hiding the euphoria generated by Messi in Miami as he begins the new Major League Soccer phase of his career in one of the most Latino cities in the United States. But his arrival is also bringing a note of sadness as fans know that at age 36 he is nearing the end of his career.
Nigeria and South Africa have been drawn in the same World Cup qualifying group in a re-shaped African competition that will lead to at least nine teams at the 2026 showpiece in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Manchester City has topped the list of FIFA payments to clubs whose players were selected for the 32 national teams in Qatar.
The Women’s World Cup will be played with new programs in place to help protect players and other participants.
At the behest of players from across the globe, FIFA has agreed that a chunk of the prize money pool at the Women’s World Cup go straight to the players — all 732 of them.
Messi announced on June 7 that he will play for Inter Miami in a move that is expected to energize soccer in the United States and South Florida with one of the sporting world’s best-known figures. More than 100,000 Argentines live in Miami, which will host World Cup matches in 2026.
The seven-time winner of the Ballon d’Or, the soccer world’s most prestigious individual award, is coming off two years with Paris Saint-Germain and is expected to make his Inter Miami debut against Mexican team Cruz Azul on July 21.
Staff at the Fiorito restaurant pose in front of a mural of Lionel Messi to celebrate after the Argentine soccer star announced he is joining the Major League Soccer team Inter Miami, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
In a career spanning more than 17 years with his country’s national team, Messi has scored more than 100 goals, including two against France at the 2022 World Cup final, a match Argentina won on penalties.
“I love that he’s in Miami because my children will be able to experience him like I experienced (fellow Argentina soccer star Diego) Maradona,” said Maximiliano Alvarez, one of the owners of the Fiorito restaurant, where a wall has a giant mural of Messi. “It also makes me sad, nostalgic, because it looks like it is the beginning of his retirement.”
“Coming to this league is not the same as playing in the European league,” said the Argentine businessman.
Álvarez and his brother Cristian had the original mural with Messi’s face painted in the restaurant in 2018, when many people criticized the soccer star for his role in the Argentine national team’s poor performance. His idea was to honor him and the resilience he brings, never giving up.
In 2021, they renovated the restaurant in Little Haiti in northeast Miami with another mural of Messi on the same wall, this one by Chilean-American artist Claudio Picasso.
On the walls of another restaurant called Kao Bar & Grill, in the Hallandale Beach area north of Miami Beach, Messi’s meme ”¡Andá pa’ alla bobo!” “Go over there, fool!” is immortalized along with a giant drawing of the soccer star.
Art depicting Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi adorns the wall at Kao Bar & Grill in Hallandale Beach, Fla., Monday, July 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Angry after Argentina’s heated victory over the Netherlands in the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Cup, Messi said those words to a Dutch player who was passing by while he was being interviewed.
Messi, who is known for his calm and cautious way of speaking, repented the comment, which immediately went viral.
“He regretted it, obviously … but it was left as a joke,” said Augusto Falopapas, the artist who drew the meme on the restaurant’s wall.
To the south, in Wynwood district, an area near downtown Miami known for its warehouse-turned-art galleries, other artists have painted murals of Messi. There are two giant images of the player, one with a smiling face, the other with him running as if in a game. And there are plans for more, including a 10-meter-high (32-foot-high) mural of Messi kissing the World Cup in an open parking lot.
Messi’s arrival has also impacted breweries like Prison Pals Brewing Co., which sells a beer bearing Messi’s number 10. The can is painted pink with black lettering, a replica of Inter Miami’s colors.
A bartender pours a beer brewed by the Prison Pals Brewery, labeled GOAT 10 in honor of Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi, at the Prison Pals Taproom, Tuesday, July 11, 2023, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
The Argentine grill The Knife offers a Messi mojito and the Hard Rock Cafe is launching a new “Messi Chicken Sandwich” made from the soccer star’s favorite “milanesas.” Messi t-shirts, pants, sweatshirts with a hood and water bottles will also be for sale.
“When we found out that he decided to choose Miami as his South Florida home, it was incredible for us,” said Elena Alvarez, vice president of global sales for Hard Rock International. “We are very, very grateful and we have him as a brand ambassador and we are launching (the new sandwich) at the same time that he is moving here.”
Near Miami Beach, at the Café Ragazzi of Argentine-Venezuelan singer-songwriter Ricardo Montaner, they are welcoming his return.
Messi was there on vacation after he won the America’s Cup with Argentina in 2021. The star caused an uproar in the restaurant as fans came to greet him, forcing staff, including waiters and kitchen workers, to form a wall around him to protect him and allow him to exit to his car.
Now they want to offer the soccer legend more privacy and are thinking of putting up curtains.
Emiliano Valdés, the café’s general manager, said “He is revolutionizing the entire city,” and that Miami is welcoming Messi “with open arms.”
A hopeful sign in the nation’s grinding battle against inflation: Although the national rate of inflation across the U.S. remains roughly twice the Federal Reserve’s target of 2% per year, in some cities prices have already returned to normal.
In May, for example, the annual rate of inflation in the Minneapolis metropolitan area fell to 1.8%, while in Honolulu it was 2%, according to Labor Department figures. On the other end of the spectrum, some Sun Belt cities are still suffering scorching price hikes. Annual inflation is 7.4% in Phoenix, 7.3% in Tampa and a whopping 9% in the Miami metro area.
The Fed has been raising interest rates for 15 months in hopes of quelling the hottest inflation since the 1980s. But the disparity in inflation increases across the country highlights one difficulty policymakers have in controlling price changes. After all, the U.S. doesn’t have one economy — it has thousands of regional economies, each with their own dynamics of supply and demand, wages, laws, government policy, and geographic differences that shape local economic conditions.
The primary factor driving these geographic variations in inflation? Housing. For instance, residents of the Midwest generally spend a smaller share of their budgets on keeping a roof over their head than people in the Northeast or West. With housing a huge contributor to recent inflation increases, inflation in the Midwest has been more muted this year, economists with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said in a recent blog post.
By contrast, in recent years many Florida cities have experienced a population boom because of migration from other parts of the country, which has driven up rents and housing prices across the state.
While the pandemic exacerbated this trend — giving the “migration hotspots” of Atlanta, Miami, Tampa and Phoenix some of the hottest inflation in the nation — housing’s outsize role in price changes is a longstanding trend. Housing was the major reason inflation rates diverged regionally, in the two decades before the pandemic as well as in more recent years.
“We find that price changes in the housing sector are the main driver of regional differences in inflation in the two time periods we investigate: January 2002–January 2023 and January 2019–January 2023,” Chicago Fed economists wrote. “Although residents in different areas do have different purchasing patterns, we find that this plays only a small role in discrepancies in regional inflation.”
Transportation is another factor in inflation’s regional differences — exacerbated last year as the price of gasoline and used cars skyrocketed.
Just as cities with more housing can better withstand shelter inflation, a city with a robust mass transit system will depend less on car and motor fuel prices than a region where most people drive, Rajashri Chakrabarti and Maxim Pinkovskiy, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said in an email.
“Last year, overall inflation was driven primarily by transportation inflation — in particular, used cars and motor fuel inflation,” they said. “But since then, transportation inflation subsided rapidly and is now well below the CPI.”
To be sure, the inflation rate doesn’t offer a picture of how pricey an area is — only how fast local prices are changing. That’s illustrated by the falling inflation rate in Honolulu. Its island location, where most consumer goods are flown in, has made Hawaii’s capital a famously expensive place to live.
But thanks in part to a population exodus during the pandemic, prices in Honolulu have risen at a slower pace than elsewhere around the U.S. Annual inflation there peaked at 7.5% in March of last year, four months before the nation’s inflation rate hit 9.1%. Since then, falling population, combined with an increase in housing, helped shelter costs in the area grow only modestly — and, with prices for energy and used cars and trucks falling, overall inflation fell to a 2% rate last month.
Likewise, increased housing construction in Minnesota’s Twin Cities has helped ease price increases. The cost of shelter there is rising at just 4% a year, half the national rate, the Minneapolis Star Tribune noted. Meanwhile, shelter costs since last year have risen nearly 17% in Miami, 14% in Tampa and 10% in Dallas, according to the latest Labor Department figures.
For inflation-addled Americans, the good news is that prices nationwide are down sharply from their peak a year ago, and continuing to cool. A major sign the tide has turned: Workers pay is finally staying ahead of inflation, as real earnings in May turned positive for the first time in over two years.
A hopeful sign in the nation’s grinding battle against inflation: Although the national rate of inflation across the U.S. remains roughly twice the Federal Reserve’s target of 2% per year, in some cities prices have already returned to normal.
In May, for example, the annual rate of inflation in the Minneapolis metropolitan area fell to 1.8%, while in Honolulu it was 2%, according to Labor Department figures. On the other end of the spectrum, some Sun Belt cities are still suffering scorching price hikes. Annual inflation is 7.4% in Phoenix, 7.3% in Tampa and a whopping 9% in the Miami metro area.
The Fed has been raising interest rates for 15 months in hopes of quelling the hottest inflation since the 1980s. But the disparity in inflation increases across the country highlights one difficulty policymakers have in controlling price changes. After all, the U.S. doesn’t have one economy — it has thousands of regional economies, each with their own dynamics of supply and demand, wages, laws, government policy, and geographic differences that shape local economic conditions.
The primary factor driving these geographic variations in inflation? Housing. For instance, residents of the Midwest generally spend a smaller share of their budgets on keeping a roof over their head than people in the Northeast or West. With housing a huge contributor to recent inflation increases, inflation in the Midwest has been more muted this year, economists with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said in a recent blog post.
By contrast, in recent years many Florida cities have experienced a population boom because of migration from other parts of the country, which has driven up rents and housing prices across the state.
While the pandemic exacerbated this trend — giving the “migration hotspots” of Atlanta, Miami, Tampa and Phoenix some of the hottest inflation in the nation — housing’s outsize role in price changes is a longstanding trend. Housing was the major reason inflation rates diverged regionally, in the two decades before the pandemic as well as in more recent years.
“We find that price changes in the housing sector are the main driver of regional differences in inflation in the two time periods we investigate: January 2002–January 2023 and January 2019–January 2023,” Chicago Fed economists wrote. “Although residents in different areas do have different purchasing patterns, we find that this plays only a small role in discrepancies in regional inflation.”
To be sure, the inflation rate doesn’t offer a picture of how pricey an area is — only how fast local prices are changing. That’s illustrated by the falling inflation rate in Honolulu. Its island location, where most consumer goods are flown in, has made Hawaii’s capital a famously expensive place to live.
But thanks in part to a population exodus during the pandemic, prices in Honolulu have risen at a slower pace than elsewhere around the U.S. Annual inflation there peaked at 7.5% in March of last year, four months before the nation’s inflation rate hit 9.1%. Since then, falling population, combined with an increase in housing, helped shelter costs in the area grow only modestly — and, with prices for energy and used cars and trucks falling, overall inflation fell to a 2% rate last month.
Likewise, increased housing construction in Minnesota’s Twin Cities has helped ease price increases. The cost of shelter there is rising at just 4% a year, half the national rate, the Minneapolis Star Tribune noted. Meanwhile, shelter costs since last year have risen nearly 17% in Miami, 14% in Tampa and 10% in Dallas, according to the latest Labor Department figures.
For inflation-addled Americans, the good news is that prices nationwide are down sharply from their peak a year ago, and continuing to cool. A major sign the tide has turned: Workers pay is finally staying ahead of inflation, as real earnings in May turned positive for the first time in over two years.
Although most people would consider yelling “food for everyone” as a tacit promise that the person yelling those three words is taking care of the bill, there is a difference between promising to pay for something and actually doing that.
So forgive the Miami New Times for being skeptical that Trump lived up to the promise and indeed treated his cult followers to what it described as “a spread of croquetas, pastelitos, and cubanos chased with cafecitos.”
The publication reached out to what it described as a “knowledgeable source,” who assured the publication that Trump’s stop at the Cuban restaurant was only about 10 minutes tops, so there was no time for anyone to order anything, much less get the bill to Trump.
HuffPost reached out to both the restaurant and the Trump campaign, but no one immediately responded.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez became the latest Republican to enter the crowded race for the presidency, filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission Wednesday.
A senior Republican source familiar with Suarez’s planning tells CBS News that Suarez plans to formally announce his long-shot candidacy for the White House Thursday during a speech at the Reagan Library.
CBS News reported on “America Decides” last week that Suarez was likely to enter the 2024 fray, and that he has been raising money and shifting city hall staff to a pro-Suarez super PAC.
Th super PAC, SOS America, posted a highly produced video Wednesday ahead of his announcement
Suarez, who is Cuban American, will be the only Latino GOP candidate in the growing 2024 field. He is the president of the bipartisan U.S. Conference of Mayors and is the 11th Republican presidential candidate in the race, according to CBS News’ reporting.
Former President Trump was arraigned on federal charges in Miami Tuesday, pleading not guilty to 37 charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Suarez defended Trump, calling his indictment “unAmerican” during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”
He recently told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that his candidacy would help Republicans expand their appeal to Latino voters. Suarez says his story “demonstrates the greatness of this country, that this country provides opportunities to everyone who cares about the American dream.”
“I think I can grow the tent, not for an election, but for a generation,” he told Politico recently. ” I think it matters who is the communicator of ideas and how they communicate those ideas. You can look at my history and know that I’m someone who’s a unifier. You can look at my history and see that I’m someone who appreciates the nuances in a variety of different Hispanic cultures.”
Suarez, the second Republican candidate in the field from Florida, has tangled with rival Gov. Ron DeSantis over his COVID policies and commented on the Florida governor’s social interactions. DeSantis “seems to struggle with relationships, generally,” Suarez told Fox News.
“I look people on the eye when I shake their hands,” Suarez said.
He has also called DeSantis’ feud with Disney a “personal vendetta.”
“Ron DeSanctimonious’ early weakness as a candidate has every political rival smelling blood in the water. Nobody thinks DeSanctus has a shot,” senior Trump campaign official Jason Miller told CBS News in response to Suarez’s entry into the race.
Unlike many of the Republicans running for president, Suarez believes climate change must be addressed, he told CBS News’ Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation” in a separate appearance last year.
“It’s not theoretical for us in the city of Miami, it’s real,” he said.
“We deal with it day in and day out year after year. We’ve been dedicating a tremendous amount of resources, updating our building codes over decades, since 1992, when we had a 200-m.p.h. hurricane event called Hurricane Andrew.”
Suarez’s candidacy is not without controversy, however. He has been connected to Miami real estate developer Rishi Kapoor, who paid him a $10,000 per month consulting fee to help with permits for a real estate venture while Kapoor was seeking city approval for an urban project, according to a recent lawsuit and reporting by the Miami Herald. Both the FBI and SEC are investigating Kapoor, the CEO of Location Ventures. The Miami-Dade ethics commission has also opened an investigation into Suarez’s work for the developer.
In May, Suarez told “Face the Nation” he would need to make an announcement soon if he wants to meet the criteria to make the first primary debate because he lacks name recognition compared to other well-known candidates.
“I’m someone who needs to be better known by this country,” he said. “You have to take every opportunity to share your story, to share your vision, and to try to inspire the American people to choose what you’re trying to offer them.”
Suarez, the son of Miami’s first Cuban-born mayor, has been trying to turn Miami into a crypto hub and the next Silicon Valley. He even takes his salary in Bitcoin, despite the cryptocurrency’s high volatility.
If he were to win, Suarez would be the first sitting mayor ever elected president. So far, in addition to Trump and DeSantis, the Republican primary field includes former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Former President Trump pleaded not guilty to all federal charges at his arraignment in Miami on Tuesday. Trump is facing 37 felony counts related to the investigation into his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House. Robert Costa has the latest.
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Washington — Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to appear at a federal courthouse in Miami Tuesday to face charges that he illegally retained sensitive national security documents after leaving the White House and obstructed efforts to retrieve them.
Trump, who has been staying at his resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, traveled to Miami Monday on his private plane ahead of his arraignment.
What is an arraignment?
The initial court hearing, known as an arraignment, is when a judge will explain the charges against Trump and advise him of his right to an attorney. Trump told Fox News Digital he would plead not guilty to the charges.
Trump is charged with 37 felony counts related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left office in January 2021. In the indictment unsealed last Friday, the Justice Department alleged Trump had kept the classified documents in boxes stored at his Mar-a-Lago resort, including in a bathroom and shower, a ballroom and his bedroom. The documents allegedly contained information on U.S. nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the U.S. and its allies to a military attack and plans for potential retaliation in response to an attack, among other things, the indictment says.
Trump, who denies any wrongdoing, is also alleged to have shown the classified documents to others who lacked a security clearance. And the indictment alleges he tried to obstruct the National Archives and Records Administration and the Justice Department’s efforts to retrieve the documents.
A federal grand jury issued a subpoena on May 11, 2022, for all documents with classification markings, and the indictment alleges Trump, in discussing his response to the subpoena, told his lawyers, “I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t,” and then asked, “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?” Prosecutors say Trump at one point suggested his attorney hide or destroy documents covered by the subpoena.
What happens while Trump is at the courthouse?
The former president is expected to surrender to U.S. marshals at the federal courthouse in downtown Miami, where he’ll be booked and processed. As part of the process, defendants are usually fingerprinted and have a booking photo taken, then are taken to a courtroom to appear in front of the judge.
In Trump’s case, he could be processed before or after the arraignment, depending on when he arrives at the courthouse. Two sources told CBS that a DNA swab is expected to be collected, which would be put in a federal database, and he will be fingerprinted. An official familiar with the situation said Trump will not have his mugshot taken and instead his official portrait will be used.
Trump is not expected to be handcuffed, since he is not under arrest.
The public will most likely not see Trump while he is inside the courthouse, since cameras are prohibited in the building, and Cecilia Altonaga, chief judge for the Southern District of Florida, ordered late Monday night that members of the media will not be allowed to bring phones and other electronic equipment into the courthouse.
A group of media organizations, including CBS News, had asked a judge to allow some still photos to be taken before the proceeding begins, but Judge Jonathan Goodman denied that request Monday night, writing in part that “Allowing photographs would undermine the massive security arrangements put in place.” The courthouse complex is also connected by underground tunnels, making it easier for Trump to evade the public.
Secret Service agents will accompany Trump during the entire process.
What happened in Trump’s last arraignment?
Trump was also arraigned in April in a separate case in New York, where he was charged with 34 felony counts in an alleged scheme to use hush money payments to suppress negative information about him ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Trump pleaded not guilty.
Trump was fingerprinted but did not have his mug shot taken nor was he handcuffed when he surrendered to authorities at a Manhattan courthouse. Photographers were briefly allowed in the courtroom ahead of the proceedings. Video cameras were prohibited, but allowed in the hallways of the courthouse.
Jim DeFede, Scott MacFarlane, Pat Milton, Andy Triay and Nicole Sganga contributed reporting.
Former President Trump arrived in Florida on Monday ahead of his scheduled arraignment in a Miami courthouse, where security has been beefed up. Trump is facing 37 counts related to the investigation of his handling of classified documents after he left office. Robert Costa has the latest.
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Donald Trump will appear in court on Tuesday after being indicted for allegedly mishandling classified documents. Scott McFarlane takes us inside the case and answers questions about what’s next.
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High-income workers across the U.S. have migrated to Miami to take advantage of the city’s generous tax policies and moderate cost of living. But depending on what parts of the country you’re from, moving to the Magic City may not make financial sense.
That’s the main finding of a new study from financial technology company SmartAsset. According to the study, workers in New York City with $650,000 in annual income could save nearly $200,000 a year by moving to Miami, where the cost of living is roughly 115% lower than in the Big Apple.
Equally well-off San Franciscans would experience a 60% drop in cost of living in Miami and save slightly over $150,000 a year. By contrast, Chicagoans at that salary level would find the cost of living in Miami to be only 6% lower and would save just $10,500 by heading south.
SmartAsset used federal, state and local tax, and cost of living data to calculate how much single tax filers from New York, San Francisco and Chicago earning between $150,000 and $650,000 a year could save by settling in Miami. Researchers also factored in housing expenses using data from each city’s downtown area.
The study shows savings increased with workers income, with higher earners getting the most bang for their buck. Still, people making $150,000 could hold onto more of their paycheck by settling down in Miami, with savings ranging from roughly $1,900 to $48,000, depending on what city they are moving from.
Savings across income levels were consistently higher for New York residents than for residents of other cities, the study shows. That’s because New York’s cost of living is the highest of the cities SmartAsset analyzed, at 137% above the national average. Miami’s cost of living is 23% above the national average.
Not just snow birds
With the cost of living in New York so high, it should come as no surprise that many of the city’s residents are eyeing greener pastures.
According to search activity data from real estate listing website Realtor.com, many prospective homebuyers and renters living in New York are searching for properties in Florida. Seven of the 10 most-searched counties by New York-based users on the site were in Florida, and all were outside of New York state.
New Yorkers are also responsible for 23% of searches for housing in Miami-Dade county, according to Realtor.com data.
The Pittsburgh Steelers were awarded marketing rights to Ireland and Northern Ireland this week as part of the NFL’s International Home Marketing Areas initiative; the Steelers have a long-term relationship with Ireland courtesy of the Rooney family.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers made a welcome return to Croke Park. Pictured is Steelers director of business development & strategy Daniel Rooney
The Pittsburgh Steelers have long-term plans to play a regular season NFL game in Ireland, the team said Thursday during a visit to celebrate its long-standing ties with the Emerald Isle.
The Steelers touched down in Dublin days after the NFL awarded the team marketing rights for Ireland and Northern Ireland, all part of the league’s push to expand its audience internationally.
“Our aspirations long term are to play a game in Ireland,” said Daniel Rooney, the team’s director of business development and strategy. “As we move through the process, we’ll be evaluating all options.”
Ireland has never hosted a regular season NFL game, but the Steelers beat the Chicago Bears 30-17 in a preseason matchup at Croke Park in 1997.
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Croke Park, home of the Gaelic Athletic Association, holds 82,300 and would almost certainly be the site of any future Steelers game.
GAA president Larry McCarthy joined Rooney at a news conference at Croke Park and said the organisation is “delighted to be associated with [the Rooneys] and such a famous name and brand in the Steelers.”
Brett Gosper, NFL head of UK and Europe, was also on hand and called the Steelers and Ireland a “perfect fit.”
“There are so many connections, obviously the family’s heritage [and] the Steelers organising that first and only game – so far – in Ireland,” he said.
The late Daniel M. Rooney was U.S. ambassador to Ireland from 2009-12.
The Jacksonville Jaguars, who play in London every year, were also awarded marketing rights to Ireland.
The programme was designed to help individual teams build their brands abroad through commercial activity and fan engagement similar to what they do in their home markets. Rights are granted by the league for at least a five-year term.
The acclaimed poem written by Amanda Gorman for President Joe Biden’s inauguration was moved from the elementary section of a Miami-Dade County public school after a parent complaint and school review, the district confirmed Tuesday.
A parent of a student at Bob Graham Education Center – a kindergarten through eighth grade school in Miami Lakes – objected to Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb,” for which they erroneously listed Oprah Winfrey as the author/publisher, according to documents obtained by the Florida Freedom to Read Project.
It “is not educational and have (sic) indirectly hate messages,” the complaint said, adding that the poem would “cause confusion and indoctrinate students.”
The same parent made similar complaints about “Love to Langston,” a poetry-based biography of Black poet Langston Hughes; “The ABCs of Black History” and two books about Cuba, complaints obtained by the nonprofit group show.
A materials-review panel at the school declined to remove the books from the school entirely but did decide to move the Gorman poem and two other disputed items to the library’s middle school section, which is for grades six through eight, according to minutes of an April meeting of the committee that were obtained by the nonprofit.
Gorman, the nation’s first-ever Youth Poet Laureate, was 22 when she performed “The Hill We Climb” at Biden’s inauguration in 2021. Inspired by the Capitol insurrection two weeks earlier, the 700-word poem criticized the “force that would shatter our nation rather than share it” and spoke about the need for justice and social change.
“The new dawn blooms as we free it,” she concluded the poem. “For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.”
Gorman was “gutted” by the district’s decision, she said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I wrote ‘The Hill We Climb’ so that all young people could see themselves in a historical moment. Ever since, I’ve received countless letters and videos from children inspired by ‘The Hill We Climb’ to write their own poems,” she wrote. “Robbing children of the chance to find their voices in literature is a violation of their right to free thought and free speech.”
Miami-Dade County’s mayor on Wednesday invited Gorman to visit for a reading.
“Your poem inspired our youth to become active participants in their government and to help shape the future. We want you to come to Miami-Dade to do a reading of your poem. If you’re in, we will coordinate,” Daniella Levine Cava wrote on Twitter.
In a statement to CNN Tuesday evening, Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesperson Elmo Lugo said, “No literature (books or poem) has been banned or removed.”
“It was determined at the school that ‘The Hill We Climb’ is better suited for middle school students and, it was shelved in the middle school section of the media center. The book remains available in the media center,” he said.
Lugo did not respond to a request to verify the authenticity of the complaint documents released by the Florida Freedom to Read Project, instead saying the district would process CNN’s inquiry as a formal public records request.
San Francisco Bay Area to host Super Bowl for third time after being confirmed as venue for 2026; Levi’s Stadium to stage Super Bowl LX; game also played in Bay Area in 1985 and 2016
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Super Bowl 50 was held at Levi’s Stadium in 2016, with the event to return to the venue in 2026
Super Bowl LX will head to the San Francisco Bay Area with Levi’s Stadium confirmed as the host venue in 2026.
The stadium, home of the San Franciso 49ers, last held the showpiece match in 2016 when Denver Broncos beat Carolina Panthers 24-10 in Super Bowl 50.
The Bay Area will stage its third Super Bowl, with the game also taking place at Stanford Stadium in 1985.
On that occasion, the 49ers beat the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XIX.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement on Monday: “The Bay Area was an incredible host for Super Bowl 50, and we are thrilled to bring the Super Bowl back.
“We look forward to working with the 49ers and the Bay Area Host Committee to create an impactful Super Bowl LX in 2026 that showcases all the great things the region has to offer.”
49ers president Al Guido said: “We are honored to host the Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium once again, and to be stewards of one of the biggest sporting events in the world.
“Since hosting Super Bowl 50 in 2016, Levi’s Stadium has cemented its reputation as a world-class venue. I’m confident Super Bowl LX will be a terrific event that benefits the entire community.”
Super Bowl LVIII will be held at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on February 11 2024, with the Ceasars Superdome in New Orleans to stage Super Bowl LIX on February 9 2025.
Ron DeSantis signs the Parental Rights in Education bill, known as the “Don’t say gay” bill, in March at Classical Preparatory School in Shady Hills, Fla.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The NAACP over the weekend issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining two other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent laws and policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.”
The NAACP, long an advocate for Black Americans, joined the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), a Latino civil-rights organization, and Equality Florida, a gay-rights advocacy group, in issuing travel advisories for the Sunshine State, where tourism is one of the state’s largest job sectors.
The warning approved Saturday by the NAACP’s board of directors tells tourists that, before traveling to Florida, they should understand the state of Florida “devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color.”
Florida is one of the most popular states in the U.S. for tourists, and tourism is one of its biggest industries. More than 137.5 million tourists visited Florida last year, marking a return to pre-pandemic levels, according to Visit Florida, the state’s tourism promotion agency. Tourism supports 1.6 million full-time and part-time jobs, and visitors spent $98.8 billion in Florida in 2019, the last year figures are available.
The NAACP’s decision comes after the DeSantis’s administration in January rejected the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course. DeSantis and Republican lawmakers also have pressed forward with measures that ban state colleges from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as critical race theory, and also passed the Stop WOKE Act that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in schools and businesses.
In its warning for Hispanic travelers considering a visit to Florida, LULAC cited a new law that prohibits local governments from providing money to organizations that issue identification cards to people illegally in the country and invalidates out-of-state driver’s licenses held by undocumented immigrants, among other things.
The law also requires hospitals that accept Medicaid to include a citizenship question on intake forms, which critics have said is intended to dissuade immigrants living in the U.S. illegally from seeking medical care.
“The actions taken by Gov. DeSantis have created a shadow of fear within communities across the state,” said Lydia Medrano, a LULAC vice president for the Southeast region.
Recent efforts to limit discussion on LGBTQ topics in schools, the removal of books with gay characters from school libraries, a recent ban on gender-affirming care for minors, new restrictions on abortion access and a law allowing Floridians to carry concealed guns without a permit contributed to Equality Florida’s warning.
“Taken in their totality, Florida’s slate of laws and policies targeting basic freedoms and rights pose a serious risk to the health and safety of those traveling to the state,” Equality Florida’s advisory said.
