Governors want Bush to tighten borders
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
AP's ROBERT TANNER - - Miami Herald
| A growing number of governors, along the border and beyond, are sharpening their complaints about the flood of immigrants pouring into their states, pushing the Bush administration and Congress for action.
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Ports still at risk of terror attack
Thursday, February 23, 2006 STEVE HARRISON - - Miami Herald
| While the U.S. government has made the nation's seaports safer since 9/11, a lack of money and technological limitations still leaves ports vulnerable to terrorist attacks, experts say.
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McCain to push immigration plan here
Thursday, February 23, 2006 ALFONSO CHARDY - - Miami Herald
| Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican presidential hopeful behind one of the key immigration bills in Congress, is launching a nationwide publicity blitz before arriving in Miami Thursday to garner support for legislation to legalize up to 11 million illegal immigrants.
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Family members: Man shot at MIA was loving, gentle
Friday, December 9, 2005 PHIL LONG - - Miami Herald
| Family members of the Orlando-area man who was shot to death at Miami International Airport by federal air marshals on Wednesday read a brief, handwritten statement Thursday that described him as loving and gentle.
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Passenger: Alpizar was agitated at gate
Friday, December 9, 2005
AP's CURT ANDERSON - - Miami Herald
| The passenger shot to death by air marshals in Miami had been agitated before boarding the plane and was singing "Go Down Moses" as his wife tried to calm him, a fellow passenger said Thursday.
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Jose Padilla charged in federal indictment
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 JAY WEAVER - - Miami Herald
| Jose Padilla, the former Broward County held by the federal government as an ''enemy combatant,'' is to be charged today with waging and financing Islamic holy war against the United States, according to Miami law enforcement sources.
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Report: Ocean noise harms dolphins, whales
Monday, November 21, 2005
AP's PAUL CHAVEZ - - Miami Herald
| Increasing levels of ocean noise generated by military sonar, shipping, and oil and gas exploration is threatening dolphins and whales that rely on sound for mating, finding food and avoiding predators, according to a new report.
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FEMA says it will work out refugee housing
Friday, November 18, 2005
AP's MICHAEL GRACZYK - - Miami Herald
| Federal and state officials tried to ease fears Thursday that thousands of Louisiana hurricane refugees in Texas would be left homeless again after Dec. 1 when FEMA has said it will stop paying their hotel and motel bills.
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State's ban on felons voting stands
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 LESLEY CLARK and GARY FINEOUT - - Miami Herald
| The U.S. Supreme Court let stand Monday a Civil War-era law that bars felons from voting in Florida, ending a five-year legal battle waged on behalf of 600,000 ex-felons by civil-rights groups who argued the lifetime ban is biased against blacks.
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Castro has Parkinson's disease, CIA has concluded
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 PABLO BACHELET and FRANCES ROBLES - - Miami Herald
| The CIA has alerted policymakers over the potential eroding of Fidel Castro's health.
The CIA recently concluded that Cuban leader Fidel Castro suffers from Parkinson's disease and has warned U.S. policymakers to be ready for trouble if the 79-year-old ruler's health erodes over the next few years.
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Alito downplays 1985 abortion statement
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - Miami Herald
| The Samuel Alito who argued against abortion rights in 1985 was "an advocate seeking a job" with the conservative Reagan administration, the Alito who is now a Supreme Court nominee told Democrats on Tuesday.
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Gulf drilling dead -- for now
Friday, November 11, 2005 MARY ELLEN KLAS and LESLEY CLARK - - Miami Herald
| Threats to Florida's coastline remain even as congressional leaders obtained what they say is a significant victory, scrapping a plan to allow oil and gas exploration in Gulf waters.
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Suicide bombers kill 57 at Jordan hotels
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
AP's Jamal Halaby - - Miami Herald
| Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in the Jordanian capital Wednesday night, killing at least 57 people and wounding more than 300 in what appeared to be an al-Qaida assault on an Arab kingdom with close ties to the United States and a common border with Iraq.
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Congress may curb some Patriot Act powers
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
AP's LAURIE KELLMAN - - Miami Herald
| Congress is moving to curb some of the police powers it gave the Bush administration after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, including imposing new restrictions on the FBI's access to private phone and financial records.
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Terrified residents flee Iraq fighting
Sunday, November 6, 2005
AP's ROBERT H. REID - - Miami Herald
| Scores of terrified Iraqis fled a besieged town Sunday, waving white flags and hauling their belongings to escape a second day of fighting between U.S. Marines and al-Qaida militants along the Syrian border. U.S. and Iraqi troops battled insurgents house-to-house, the U.S. military said.
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Seven more U.S. troops die in Iraq
Monday, October 31, 2005
AP's ROBERT H. REID - - Miami Herald
| Capping the bloodiest month for American troops since January, the U.S. military reported Monday that seven more U.S. service members were killed - all victims of increasingly sophisticated bombs that have been become the deadliest weapon in the insurgents' arsenal.
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Wilma shreds crops in South Florida
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 CHRISTINA HOAG - - Miami Herald
| Crops that Katrina left standing weren't so lucky this time around, South Dade farmers reported on Tuesday as they started tallying up the collapsed greenhouses, uprooted seedlings and toppled trees Hurricane Wilma left in its wake.
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Asian bird flu spreads to England
Sunday, October 23, 2005
AP's MICHAEL MCDONOUGH - - Miami Herald
| The British government said Sunday that a strain of bird flu that killed a parrot in quarantine is the deadly H5N1 strain that has plagued Asia and recently spread to Europe.
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Democrats courting gay voters
Sunday, October 23, 2005 LESLEY CLARK - - Miami Herald
| With their strongest advocate no longer running, South Florida's small but powerful gay community is assessing which Democratic gubernatorial candidate will best stand up for their cause.
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Congress OKs gun industry lawsuit shield
Thursday, October 20, 2005
AP's LAURIE KELLMAN - - Miami Herald
| Congress gave the gun lobby its top legislative priority Thursday, passing a bill protecting the firearms industry from massive crime-victim lawsuits. President Bush said he will sign it.
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FEMA official says boss ignored warnings
Thursday, October 20, 2005
AP's HOPE YEN - - Miami Herald
| Federal Emergency Management Agency officials did not respond to repeated warnings about deteriorating conditions in New Orleans and the dire need for help as Hurricane Katrina struck, the first FEMA official to arrive conceded Thursday.
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Doctors make safer bone marrow transplants
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
AP's MARILYNN MARCHIONE - - Miami Herald
| Doctors seem to have found a way to make bone marrow transplants safer and more effective against blood cancers like leukemia, an achievement that offers new hope for people over 50 in particular.
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Ban on coastal drilling losing backers
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 LESLEY CLARK and MARY ELLEN KLAS - - Miami Herald
| Rising fuel prices and a hurricane-battered national oil supply have given Republicans in Congress and the oil industry new ammunition to launch a drive to open up Florida waters to oil and gas exploration.
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Less U.S. travel prompts Cuba to lash out
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
AP's VANESSA ARRINGTON - - Miami Herald
| The number of Americans traveling to Cuba has fallen dramatically since 2003, and those who do visit the island without their government's permission are more likely to be fined, Cuba said as it lashed out against a decades-old U.S. embargo.
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Judge: Posada to stay in U.S. for now
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 OSCAR CORRAL - - Miami Herald
| Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles won't be deported to Cuba or Venezuela, where he is wanted for alleged terrorist crimes, a U.S. immigration judge decided -- but the judge left open the possibility that Posada could be sent to another country.
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Judge hints Posada will stay in U.S.
Monday, September 26, 2005 OSCAR CORRAL - - Miami Herald
| An immigration judge in El Paso hinted strongly Monday that Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles would be allowed to stay in detention in the United States, said Matthew Archambeault, a lawyer for Posada.
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Rescuers find more survivors, more damage
Monday, September 26, 2005
AP's BRETT MARTEL - - Miami Herald
| With Hurricane Rita's floodwaters receding along the Texas-Louisiana coast Monday, rescuers pushed deeper into hard-hit bayous to pull out residents on skiffs, crews struggled to clean up the tangle of smashed homes and downed trees, and Army helicopters searched for up to 30,000 stranded cattle.
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Boeing, Machinists union reach agreement
Sunday, September 25, 2005
AP's ALLISON LINN - - Miami Herald
| The Boeing Co. and its Machinists union have reached a tentative contract agreement, which if approved would end a three-week strike that shut down the company's airplane production.
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North Korea nuclear talks at 'endgame'
Sunday, September 18, 2005
AP's BURT HERMAN - - Miami Herald
| International talks seeking to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program were in their "endgame" Monday, the top U.S. negotiator said, before delegates met to consider a Chinese proposal for resolving the standoff.
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Egypt, Gaza residents freely cross border
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
AP's Ravi Nessman and MARIAM FAM - - Miami Herald
| The Egypt-Gaza border was open for business Tuesday: cheap cigarettes, live goats and Egyptian tourists flooded into Gaza, and Gazans celebrating their new freedom rushed to Egyptian seaside resorts.
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Indictment shows charges in plot vs. Bush
Thursday, September 8, 2005
AP's MATTHEW BARAKAT - - Miami Herald
| A man accused of plotting to assassinate President Bush was indicted Thursday on additional charges that could bring life in prison, and prosecutors now say he also planned to establish an al-Qaida cell in the United States.
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Congress sending $10.5B in relief aid
Thursday, September 1, 2005
AP's DAVID ESPO - - Miami Herald
| Congress rushed to provide a $10.5 billion down payment in relief aid for Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Katrina on Thursday as President Bush ordered new action to minimize disruptions in the nation's energy supplies.
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Four indicted in alleged U.S. terror plot
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
AP's JEREMIAH MARQUEZ - - Miami Herald
| The head of a militant Islamic prison gang and three others were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of planning terrorist attacks against National Guard facilities, the Israeli Consulate and other Los Angeles-area targets.
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Data recorder from Peru plane crash found
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
AP's TAMY HIGA - - Miami Herald
| The missing flight data recorder from a Peruvian airliner that crash-landed last week has been recovered, turned in by a man who scavanged it from the wreckage, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Newsview: White House distances Robertson
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
AP's ANNE GEARAN - - Miami Herald
| There's an old Southern saying that you dance with the one that brung ya, but as the Bush administration found out this week, sometimes you don't want to dance too closely.
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'Peace Mom': Spearhead of peace movement?
Monday, August 22, 2005
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Miami Herald
| What began as one mother's vigil on a country road in Texas two weeks ago has grown into a nationwide protest, putting a grieving human face to the miseries of war and the misgivings about President Bush's strategies in Iraq.
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Pakistan's leaders vow to defeat terrorism
Sunday, August 14, 2005
AP's SADAQAT JAN - - Miami Herald
| Pakistan celebrated national independence day Sunday as its leaders pledged to defeat terrorism, saying militancy and religious extremism were threatening both sovereignty and development.
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White bread gets whole-grain makeover
Monday, August 8, 2005
AP's EMILY FREDRIX - - Miami Herald
| Looks like white bread. Tastes like it, too. But is it?
It took scientists eight long years and millions of dollars to sneak whole grains into that spongy, yeasty icon of U.S. health-unconscious consumerism. Now that they've done it, food manufacturers have begun releasing a bevy of products they hope will get people to eat whole grains.
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Iraq leaders work on draft consitution
Sunday, August 7, 2005
AP's BASSEM MROUE - - Miami Herald
| With only a week until the deadline for a new constitution, Iraqi political leaders launched marathon negotiations Sunday seeking to overcome formidable obstacles blocking agreement on the draft.
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Bush holds Latin American ally at ranch
Thursday, August 4, 2005
AP's DEB RIECHMANN - - Miami Herald
| President Bush has no better partner in Latin America than the leader of Colombia so it's not surprising that Alvaro Uribe was invited to see the Texas ranch where Bush likes to conduct homespun diplomacy.
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CAFTA battle casts doubt on future pacts
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
AP's TOM RAUM - - Miami Herald
| President Bush signed a free trade agreement with six Latin American countries on Tuesday, celebrating a victory in Congress so narrow and grueling that it cast doubt on the future of other trade-opening pacts the administration is negotiating.
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Discovery astronaut ready for risky repair job on shuttle
Tuesday, August 2, 2005 PHIL LONG - - Miami Herald
| When Discovery astronaut Stephen Robinson goes to work this morning, the last thing he wants is to bump his head.
Wearing a bulky, helmeted spacesuit, he will try to pull off a risky repair job strapped to the end of a 58-foot boom -- all just inches away from the shuttle's delicate, ceramic-covered heat tiles. It's a place astronauts have never gone before.
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Senate to begin Roberts hearings Sept. 6
Sunday, July 31, 2005
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - Miami Herald
| Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts will begin the day after Labor Day, but Senate Democrats said Friday the White House will have to release more documents to ensure he's wearing a justice's black robes before the new term begins in October.
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Iran threatens to restart nuke activities
Sunday, July 31, 2005
AP's NASSER KARIMI - - Miami Herald
| Iran threatened Sunday to restart some suspended activities that could be used to make atomic weapons if European negotiators do not immediately offer a promised package of incentives to entice Tehran to freeze its nuclear program.
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Hearing snubs: a sign of Bush apathy?
Wednesday, July 27, 2005 DAVE MONTGOMERY - - Miami Herald (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| Two of President Bush's Cabinet secretaries scrapped scheduled appearances Tuesday before a Senate hearing on overhauling immigration law, raising questions about the president's commitment to repairing the nation's immigration system.
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Fight brews over oil drilling
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 MARY ELLEN KLAS - - Miami Herald
| A White House energy plan includes provisions allowing Louisiana and Alabama to license oil rigs to drill in deep water off of Florida's Panhandle. State legislators vow to derail the plan.
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Brazilians demand arrest over killing
Monday, July 25, 2005
AP's ALAN CLENDENNING - - Miami Herald
| Hundreds of relatives and friends of a Brazilian shot to death in London after being mistaken for a terrorist marched along the cobblestone streets of his hometown Monday, demanding the arrest of the British police who fired the fatal shots.
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Discovery's crew await launch
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 MARTIN MERZER - - Miami Herald
| Discovery's seven astronauts, wearing their pumpkin-orange flight suits and strapped into their seats, awaited blastoff this morning on the first shuttle mission since the Columbia accident of February 2003.
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No candidate leads GOP governor race
Sunday, July 17, 2005 GARY FINEOUT - - Miami Herald
| Republicans Charlie Crist and Tom Gallagher each collected more than $3 million from special interest groups, but it appears that neither candidate has an edge in claiming support from those who helped Gov. Jeb Bush and President Bush.
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One young man's concern on extremism
Sunday, July 17, 2005
AP's SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI - - Miami Herald
| Nineteen-year-old Fazel, a British-born Muslim who is angry about his "immoral" surroundings, seems ripe for the picking by the recruiters of Islamic extremism. "I would go if they approached me," he says.
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Sodas need warnings, watchdog group says
Thursday, July 14, 2005 ELY PORTILLO - - Miami Herald (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food watchdog group, has filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration to have warning labels put on sweetened drinks.
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GOP amps up push for Harris rival
Wednesday, June 29, 2005 LESLEY CLARK - - Miami Herald
| Republicans stepped up efforts to nudge House Speaker Allan Bense into a primary against U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, fearing she would be too divisive against the incumbent.
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Despite ruling, Gitmo place of legal limbo
Monday, June 27, 2005 FRANK DAVIES - - Miami Herald
| One year ago, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that opened the door to federal courts for the 500-plus prisoners in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp to challenge their captivity.
But after months of procedural battles, no judge has heard the merits of any of the 200 habeas corpus petitions from Guantánamo detainees, some held for more than three years.
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U.S. spurned key test that found mad cow disease
Monday, June 27, 2005
AP's LIBBY QUAID - - Miami Herald
| A third and more sophisticated test on the beef cow suspected of having mad cow disease would have helped resolve conflicting results from two initial screenings, but the United States refused to perform it last November.
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CAFTA provides summer suspense in Washington
Friday, June 24, 2005 Jane Bussey - - Miami Herald
| After more than a year of false starts, the Bush administration Thursday sent a free-trade agreement with Central American nations and the Dominican Republic to Capitol Hill, setting up what is expected to be this summer's political blockbuster.
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Ahmadinejad's rise in Iran spans two years
Friday, June 24, 2005
AP's ALI AKBAR DAREINI - - Miami Herald
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the meteor of Iranian politics, rising from provincial governor to mayor of the capital and now to president - all in two years, backed by hardliners in the clerical regime.
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Debate focuses on escape
Sunday, June 19, 2005 OSCAR CORRAL - - Miami Herald
| The circumstances of Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles' escape from a Venezuelan prison were a point of contention between Posada and the Venezuelan government.
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Army recruiting goals won't be met
Sunday, June 19, 2005 Joseph L. Galloway - - Miami Herald (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| The Army has started to lower its standards and increase bonuses, but probably will still fall far short of its recruiting goal this year. An unpopular war in Iraq is largely to blame.
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Posada to seek bond, transfer
Monday, June 13, 2005 OSCAR CORRAL - - Miami Herald
| Lawyers for Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles plan to ask an immigration court judge today to set him free on bond while he waits for his immigration status to be determined by federal authorities.
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