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A Florida bill that would allow chaplains to provide counseling services to public school students is gaining traction — and opposition — in the Legislature. The bill (SB 1044) would give schools districts and charter schools an option to use volunteer chaplains to provide counseling and other services to students. Supporters say chaplains would help address a shortage of mental health counselors in many schools and that parents would have to approve counseling. But opponents argue it’s a slippery slope that opens the doors of public schools to religious influence, and could put some students ......

Biden administration officials rejected claims by Cuban authorities that the United States is supporting people in Miami plotting “terrorist” actions against Cuba after Cuban officials again raised the issue during a meeting centered on law enforcement cooperation between the two countries that took place in Washington D.C. earlier this week. In a statement, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said island officials had provided the U.S. with “information … on the activities of people living in the United States, identified by their links to terrorism.” Last December, the Cuban government pub......

The Florida Bar is investigating Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez and her close connection to companies that purchased homes belonging to vulnerable Miami residents at well below-market-value and then sold them — sometimes the same day — at a large profit. The investigation, which has not been previously reported, has been open since at least last April, according to an email sent at the time from Rick Courtemanche, deputy general counsel of the Florida Bar, which was obtained by the Herald. A spokesperson for the Bar told the Herald the investigation is ongoing, but provided no further inf......

During Ileana Ros Lehtinen’s decades in Congress, Cuban government officials and state media journalists referred to the Cuban-American politician as "la loba feroz"— the big bad she-wolf — an attack on her tough Cuba policies as well as a display of the common sexism at the top of the island’s hierarchy. Now, the communist government has identified a new female foe. And she, too, is being called names. A story in the Communist Party newspaper Granma on Friday lashed out at Miami congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, a former journalist who now chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on We......

MIAMI -- Attorneys in social media star Courtney Clenney’s murder trial sparred in open court Thursday, with the sides accusing each other of leaking information to try and manipulate the media. State prosecutors were incensed that attorneys, potential witnesses and the defendant’s parents had co-operated with the online celebrity website TMZ, which plans to air a show on Clenney’s travails in two weeks. And Clenney’s attorneys were still seething over arrest warrants issued earlier this week that implicated them in the attempted break-in of a computer owned by the man Clenney is accused of mu......

Depression. Addiction. Eating disorders. A “mental health tsunami” is affecting kids and teens. And research shows a correlation between the internet, social media and an increase among children for suicidal thoughts and other health-related concerns, experts say. That’s why Nicklaus Children’s Hospital near South Miami is calling on parents to help protect their kids from the dark side of today’s digital world, including cyberbullying, predators, pornography and other content that can affect a child’s self-esteem, health and safety. On Wednesday, the children’s hospital with a series of partn......