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BUSH IN MIAMI
President Geroge W. Bush (R) shakes hands with his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (2nd-right), as Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) (L) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) stand nearby at Miami International Airport in Miami Florida on July 30, 2006. (UPI Photo/John VanBeekum/Pool) .

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Diaz-Balart retires; brother may seek seat
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., announced Thursday he is retiring and his brother indicated he may switch congressional districts to run for the seat.
Lawmakers urge Haitian protected status
Undocumented Haitians living in the United States should be allowed to stay while their country recovers from hurricanes, Florida lawmakers say.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to appoint seasoned U.S. diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria and Syria Christopher Ross as his personal envoy for Western Sahara. This appointment hopefully will continue the momentum of the current negotiations process to end the three-decades-old conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front, an Algerian-backed rebel movement that has challenged Morocco's historical sovereignty over a Colorado-sized desert territory in North Africa (sometimes known as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic).
U.S. and Cuban officials say they have no idea what happened to a boat packed with 40 Cuban refugees that vanished en route to Florida almost two months ago.
More and more Cuban Americans in southern Florida want to see travel restrictions lifted and relations with Cuba normalized, a poll released Monday showed.
Cuban exile baseball players called a Miami meeting Thursday to talk about forming a team for the World Baseball Classic.
The Social Security Administration has relaxed its policies to benefit elderly Cuban and Haitian immigrants, The Miami Herald reported Thursday.
A former Cuban politician and father of two U.S. congressmen has died in Key Biscayne, Fla., at 79-years-old.
An inauguration sponsorship offered by Miami's Cuban-American National Foundation, once a power in Republican politics, has been snubbed by the GOP.
Three Florida House members have charged an endowment from the wife of John Kerry may have financed the linkup of Cuba's Internet.
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A damaged movie theater is seen in aftermath of a series of tornadoes in Moore, Oklahoma, May 21, 2013. On May 20 a series of tornadoes swept through severals towns south of Oklahoma City leaving a path of destruction and killing at least 24 people. UPI/J.P. Wilson