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University Of Miami Shooting Scare Ends With Suspects In Custody

miamiherald.com | By HERALD STAFF | Posted 11.20.2009 | Home


The University of Miami police lifted its lockdown orders after reporting that at least two suspects who reportedly fired a BB-gun on school grounds h...

Howard Berman/Richard Lugar Bipartisan Team Call for End to Cuba Travel Ban

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


Steve Clemons

It is a remarkable but true fact that the US government cannot stop regular Americans from traveling to North Korea, Burma, Iran, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Congo, or any other complicated place in the world, except Cuba.

Fake Viagra: Organized Crime's New Goods

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.28.2009 | World


Police in Spain have reportedly recovered over 160,000 fake Viagra pills, says Typically Spanish. The report is the latest in a line of international...

Amnesty: Honduras Photos and Protestor Testimonies Show Extent of Police Violence

Robert Naiman | Posted 09.19.2009 | World


Robert Naiman

If the repression under the coup regime in Honduras were more widely known, it would be much more difficult for representatives of that regime to peddle their story in Washington that their government is "democratic" and "respects the rule of law."

Navy Commander Accuses Miami Herald Reporter Of Sexual Harassment

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics


Tensions between journalists and military officials are nothing new. But a bitter series of clashes between a top Navy spokesman and a Miami Herald mi...

Reading The Pictures: Monsters of Gitmo

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics


Michael Shaw

2009-06-02-gitmo20_06.jpg In the past weeks and days, new photos have been released of Gitmo prisoners.

Cuba: US Concedes World "May Have Changed" Since 1962

Robert Naiman | Posted 06.28.2009 | World


Robert Naiman

The Obama Administration has been praised and vilified for its legendary caution, typically depending on whether the speaker supports or opposes the d...

McClatchy Reports Massive Losses

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.24.2009 | Media


SAN JOSE, Calif. — The McClatchy Co.'s losses widened in the first quarter amid an advertising meltdown that is increasing pressure on the publi...

Letter From Paris: The Cuban Dreamland

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.22.2009 | World


Beth Arnold

It is time for American policies toward Cuba to change, but I must admit when I left there, I could see the point of trying to hold Fidel's feet to the fire.

The Embargo-Industrial Complex Finds a New Argument for Helping Cuba's Castros

David Paul Appell | Posted 05.09.2009 | World


David Paul Appell

After all these years of the stale same-old, same-old, the ideologues who've hijacked Washington's Cuba policy for the last couple of generations have managed to come up with a new and updated twist.

Miami Herald To Cut 175 Jobs

AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media


MIAMI — About 175 employees at The Miami Herald will lose their jobs, and most of the remaining full-time staff will see their salaries reduced ...

Alvah Chapman, Miami Newspaper Titan, Dies At 87

AP | Posted 01.29.2009 | Media


MIAMI — Alvah H. Chapman Jr., former president and chief executive officer of The Miami Herald, chairman of Knight Ridder Corp. and a champion o...

Report: The Miami Herald Is For Sale

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA | Posted 01.06.2009 | Media


The McClatchy Company, burdened by debt and a steep slide in newspaper advertising, wants to sell one of its most-prized properties, The Miami Herald,...

Guantanamo Uyghurs' resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics


Andy Worthington

Guantánamo is full of bleak stories. How could it fail to be, when it is a vast failed experiment, a "terror prison" that contains few terrorists, a ...

New York Times Plagiarist A Repeat Offender

Slate | Jack Shafer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


When a journalist gets caught plagiarizing the first time, he can usually duck the charge by claiming that the theft was really an accident. I mistake...

New York Times Plagiarizes Miami Herald

Slate | Jack Shafer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


The hell wrought on Argentina by the illicit drug "paco" has already become a journalistic staple. The Christian Science Monitor visited the topic on ...