Friday, August 14, 2026

Tag: Florida

US-backed housing scandals threaten to rip off Honduras and Panama

Miami-based investors are suing Honduras after their own false promises left families picking up the pieces.

Kristi Noem fast-tracked millions in disaster aid to Florida tourist attraction...

Records obtained by ProPublica show how one locality found a way to get FEMA aid more quickly: It asked one of Noem’s political donors for help.

Florida traffic stop beating of Black student sparks federal civil rights...

Attorneys say Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office policies enable racial profiling and excessive force as prosecutors decline charges and lawsuit targets sheriff, officers, and city officials.

102 organizations press Rubio to free Palestinian American teen held at...

Coalition says Florida teenager Mohammed Ibrahim’s life is on the line after months without family contact or medical care.

Seven dead in ICE custody in Trump’s first 100 days as...

At least seven migrants have died in ICE custody since January, as the Trump administration expands detention and dismantles oversight across a system plagued by abuse, neglect, and inhumane conditions.

Florida to become second state to ban fluoride in public water...

With a vote of 88-27, Florida lawmakers passed a bill that would ultimately ban fluoride in drinking water. SB 700, also known...

Uplifting commotion across FL & TX Senate races: Mindful backlash to...

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Florida bans sale and distribution of lab-grown meat throughout state

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis passed a ban on lab-grown meat with similar initiatives being considered in Arizona, Alabama and Tennessee.

Migrants tricked by DeSantis scheme gain legal ground with U visas

The granting of U visas marks a crucial step in recognizing the migrants as victims of a potential crime, thus allowing them to legally work in the United States and providing temporary protection from deportation.

Florida’s tipping point: Supreme Court clears path for pivotal abortion rights...

The proposed constitutional amendment offers a robust defense of abortion rights, stipulating that no laws should "prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient's health."

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The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...

Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Who’s enabling Putin’s enablers?

We need a progressive politics that shows solidarity with all victims of military violence — while resisting the militarism of our own government.

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An ICE Special Response Team performs crowd control outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on June 10, 2026. Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

“An ICE Murder”: Gabriela Soto Says She Miscarried While Husband Was Detained in Solitary

In the wake of a third ICE death at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, we speak with Gabriela Soto, whose husband Martín was one of the leaders of the May hunger strike at the immigration jail. Martín was transferred to Elizabeth Detention Center, New Jersey’s other ICE facility, during the hunger strike at Delaney. Gabriela is calling for the closure of both facilities. “At first, I was fighting for my husband, but then I started to meet all of these people who are just innocent, and they are the people that make this country great,” says Soto, who blames her recent miscarriage on the stress of her husband being detained. “I am still grieving,” she says. “To me, this is an ICE murder, too.” This comes as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, a Salvadoran immigrant, died Saturday after being held for six weeks at Delaney Hall. He is the third immigrant to die at the ICE jail, which has been open since May 2025. Lopez-Cornejo’s mother, Maria Cornejo, says her son took medicine to manage diabetes, seizures and his blood pressure, but had not received his medications regularly since being detained. ICE said in a statement that Lopez-Conejo experienced a “medical emergency” on Saturday and was transported to University Hospital in Newark, but Maria Cornejo says her son died at Delaney Hall. More than 70 people inside the ICE jail have filed lawsuits alleging medical neglect. That neglect was one of the factors that led to the hunger strike. “Individuals are not receiving the kind of healthcare that they in fact need, particularly for chronic health conditions, for pregnancies, for cancers,” says Analilia Mejía, Democratic congressmember from New Jersey. “Being undocumented should not be a death sentence.”