Miami-Dade Commissioner Rebeca Sosa told the Miami Herald Editorial Board on Monday she is pushing for countywide initiatives that will address three crucial issues: domestic violence, autistic resident and traffic gridlock.
(Bloomberg View) – “Francis began a busy day in Cuba by holding Mass this morning in Havana’s Revolution Square,” reported ABC News over the weekend. Wrong. He didn’t.
If you heard about the Deltona Middle School teacher who left a 6-month-old baby in her car Friday and thought, “I would never forget my child,” then you need to hear from Stephanie Salvilla.
Ben Carson’s Muslin commenst spark debateSen. Rand Paul said a president’s faith should be irrelevantGov. Bobby Jindal said he could only support a Muslim candidate
HOLGUIN, Cuba - Crowds took overnight bus trips and streamed before dawn into the heart of Cuba’s fourth-largest city Monday to greet Pope Francis on a visit to a region deeply linked to both the island’s Catholic past and the roots of the Castro revolution.
Imagine your 18-year-old daughter is decapitated in a car accident. Gruesome police photographs of her body are leaked onto the Internet. Every time someone searches your family’s name, the photos pop up at the top of the page. That’s what happened to Christos and Lesli Catsouras because in the United States, unlike in Europe, search engines are not required to act on requests by individuals to remove such links.
Sure, he was funny, and your friends probably thought he was cool, but George Carlin was your dad, after all, and well, that can get complicated. In Kelly Carlin’s new book, A Carlin Home Companion, the comedian’s daughter untangles the paradoxes of her life among “the Three Musketeers,” her father’s nickname for their family. Her master’s degree in psychology comes in handy – along with a saving sense of humor. The memoir about the family her father didn’t talk about in his performances follows a solo stage performance the onetime TV writer built around her life then and now — the afflictions and affection of a daughter who found herself sometimes having to be the parent. In it, George Carlin emerges not only as a beloved and seminal figure in comedy but as a husband and the father of a loving yet discerning-eyed daughter.
When senators run for president, they hold up their voting records. Governors seeking the White House proclaim they produced an economic miracle, cherry-picking data on jobs, budget and taxes.
Three days of Senate speeches and the vote on Thursday related to the Iran nuclear agreement presented perfect examples of why — according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll — 64 percent of adults think the American political system is dysfunctional and 72 percent say most people in politics cannot be trusted.
A vast crumbling can be heard across Europe, coupled with an ennui that is the ironic upshot of being stunned by too many disparate crises. The Mediterranean, it turns out, is not the southern border of Europe: Rather, that border lies somewhere in the Sahara Desert from where African migrants coalesce into caravans headed north. And as they have throughout history, the Balkans still form a zone of human migration from the Near East.
