Inside Panama Papers: Multiple Clinton connections
Hillary Clinton recently blasted the hidden financial dealings exposed in the Panama Papers, but she and her husband have multiple connections with people who have used the besieged law firm Mossack Fonseca to establish offshore entities.Among them are Gabrielle Fialkoff, finance director for Hillary Clinton’s first campaign for the U.S. Senate; Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining magnate who has traveled the globe with Bill Clinton; the Chagoury family, which pledged $1 billion in projects to th..>> view originalKid chefs at Miami Dolphins training center cook their way to the top
A team of children jumped and shouted as they celebrated a victory at the Miami Dolphins training facility, but instead of playing football or scoring touchdowns they were filling tortillas with fruit and cutting up avocados.The winning team of young cooks from Everglades Elementary of Weston was one of four teams that participated in the Dairy Council of Florida’s third annual Gridiron Challenge Saturday at the training facility, 7500 SW 30th St. in Davie.Sixteen small cooks with big chef’s ha..>> view originalSaudi Arabia takes in nine Yemenis from Guantánamo
Saudi Arabia on Saturday took in nine Yemeni detainees from Guantánamo, a breakthrough deal with the at-times stubborn oil kingdom that left 80 captives at the downsizing U.S. military detention center in Cuba.Among those the U.S. Air Force delivered to Saudi Arabia was 5-foot-4-inch hunger striker Tariq Ba Odah, 38, who gained prominence by asking a federal judge to order his release after he shriveled to 74 pounds despite daily U.S. Navy medical tube feedings. Cleared for years, Ba Odah, like..>> view originalMiami Heat vs. Charlotte Hornets: Who has the edge?
POINT GUARD Goran Dragic has averaged 17.3 points and 6.7 assists, and played like a free man in the Heat’s uptempo attack since the All-Star break. He also has been better defensively than most give him credit for — holding opposing shooters to a team-leading 3.7 percent below their average. Kemba Walker, Charlotte’s leader in scoring (20.9) and assists (5.2), has still put up good numbers (19.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 5.3 assists) in four games against the Heat. He has been especially deadly fr..>> view originalA Mexican bureaucrat and his family's $8.2 million Miami condo ...
On a single day in 2005, an official of Mexico’s powerful teachers’ union and his relatives spent $6.3 million on 11 luxury condos at a high-rise in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood.Bernardo Quezada Salas, now a congressman in Mexico, might have paid cash for the luxury units at the Espirito Santo Plaza. The deals were done through Florida companies owned by some combination of Quezada Salas, his wife, his sister-in-law and his brother-in-law.The year before the Brickell deals, his wife, Jessica P..>> view original3 homeless after Miami-Dade house fire
MIAMI-DADE, Fla. - Flames sent a family running out of their home in Miami-Dade home on Saturday. Miami-Dade County firefighters responded to the home near 147th Street and Southwest 104th Court. "Firefighters made sure everyone was out of the home and quickly began fighting the fire," MDFR spokesperson Erka Benitez said. "The fire was quickly extinguished."The home suffered mostly frontal damage, but authorities deemed it unsafe. Paramedics checked on three residents for injuries and the Red..>> view originalFatal tiger mauling of lead keeper a first at Palm Beach Zoo
Stacey Konwiser, the lead keeper at the Palm Beach Zoo, was mauled and killed by a male Malayan tiger on Friday, the first death from an animal attack at the zoo.Konwiser, who was nicknamed the “Tiger Whisperer,” had a close-up of a tiger named Jeremy as her Facebook profile picture.“The newest man in my life,” Konwiser wrote to a friend.It is unknown which of the zoo’s four tigers attacked her, or what will happen to the endangered animal. The Palm Beach Post reported that the tiger was recove..>> view originalLead defendant expected to plead guilty in drug-trafficking case
The lead defendant among 55 people arrested or sought by federal agents as members of South Florida cocaine- and heroin-trafficking networks plans to plead guilty rather than go to trial as he originally demanded, court records show.Hiosbani García, 44, is expected to plead guilty at a hearing tentatively scheduled for early May, according to Miami federal court documents.“Having carefully reviewed the evidence, my client has decided not to gamble at trial and rather attempt to reduce his priso..>> view originalPlucked from the uncertainty of Lesbos: 12 Syrian refugees
Pope Francis says his gesture is "a drop of water in the sea" of Europe's migration crisis. Yet for 12 Syrian refugees, the pope's decision to fly them back to Italy from Greece is an act of kindness that will resonate for the rest of their lives."Thanks be to God," exulted Wafa, mother of two children who made the trip with her husband Osama as she arrived in Rome. "I thank the pope for this very human gesture."The three Muslim families, including six children, had all fled their homes amid th..>> view original
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