WLRN WEEKEND: A collection of some of our feature stories for your Labor Day weekend reading
Personalized Labubus: Miami tattoo artist finds a side hustle in the toy trend
Labubu toys took the internet by storm this summer — now collectors are taking it a step forward by customizing the plush toys with tattoos, piercing and rhinestones. For a Miami artist, it has become quite a side hustle.
Trade offs, cuts and drama: How Miami-Dade passed its budget
In a marathon budget meeting, Miami-Dade County balanced its billion-dollar budget through various strategies. Some county offices were combined to save costs. Many positions were eliminated altogether. The county dipped into its strategic reserves.
Stories of exile and hope come alive inside Miami’s restored Freedom Tower
At 100 years old, Miami Dade College’s restored Freedom Tower turns exile and arrival into an interactive museum — with more than 350 oral histories, a recreated processing room and galleries organized around freedom, opportunity, home and love.
'This can never happen again': Legal claims stir from Venezuelans Trump sent to El Salvador prison
Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants who spent months in El Salvador's brutal CECOT prison after the Trump administration questionably — if not falsely — accused them of gang membership may soon join U.S. legal action.
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Courtesy/U.S. Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart's congressional officeThe Cuban government is directly involved in Russia's war against Ukraine by providing thousands of Cuban mercenaries, making the communist island nation one of the largest foreign sources of troops for the Kremlin, Ukrainian intelligence officials told South Florida's Cuban-American members of Congress. -
Alex Brandon/AP/AP“I have just spoken with the Office of the Attorney General & can confirm that the National Guard will NOT be deployed to Miami,” the Miami congressman posted on X. “Miami is not Chicago or San Francisco — and never will be.”
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FIRE, a prominent free speech advocacy group, is criticizing the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and several Florida teachers for their comments on the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. -
‘Destroying vital evidence’: Florida CFO accuses social media companies of shielding child predatorsForida’s chief financial officer demanded Friday that social media companies be held accountable for creating disappearing messages that handicap child sex trafficking investigations. -
Lauderdale-by-The-Sea residents and local activists plan a "No Politics in Paradise" protest Saturday to object to a recent decision by town commissioners to allow the Seagrape Drive to also be known as "President Donald J. Trump Drive."
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