Reporting and analysis on the country as it is.
America · History
In the late 1800s, Sicilian immigrants joined Cubans and Spaniards in Tampa's cigar district. They rolled tobacco, organized unions and built a mutual aid society whose red-brick clubhouse still stands.
America · Miami
A delivery driver who came back hoping to get a woman's number was shot and pistol-whipped in Kendall early Monday, authorities say. The 33-year-old suspect now faces an attempted murder charge and a stack of drug trafficking counts.
America · Columbus Day
Before October 12, 1492, humanity lived as two worlds that didn't know the other existed. A weaver's son from Genoa sailed into the unknown and brought them together.
America · Miami
Miami-Dade has spent tens of millions on a nearly six-mile path through the west side of the county, and finally hired a designer this summer. Neighbors are still waiting for a single continuous mile they can walk.
America · Italian American Heritage
America’s biggest podcaster got his Irish surname from one grandfather. The other three were Italian. Here’s the heritage behind the name, and why it so rarely comes up.
America · Remembrance
He reinvented the tight end, won championships as a player, assistant and head coach, and turned the 1985 Bears into a national obsession. Mike Ditka has died at 86.
America · Economy
A record number of residents moved out of Miami-Dade last year, even as hedge funds build towers, luxury condos sell faster and hotel rates soar. The city’s economy is being remade from the top down, and the middle is getting squeezed out.
America · Miami
Federal prosecutors say two men grabbed a man on Bird Road, demanded millions over a “15-year debt” and raised the price when his family called police. The FBI says the trail ran through a Hialeah Gardens Walmart and the pizzeria next door.
America · Midterms 2026
With President Trump’s approval near a second-term low and Democrats posting their best generic-ballot numbers of the cycle, the House looks likely to flip and the Senate is suddenly in play. In Florida, Republicans still hold the lead.
America · South Miami
Demolition of the mostly vacant Shops at Sunset Place has slipped to early 2027. But a new $149 million infrastructure district and a plan for 1,513 homes point to a very different Sunset Drive.
America · Italian American Heritage
The son of a Ligurian farmer lent to the immigrants other banks ignored, rescued his depositors’ money from the 1906 fire, and built the biggest bank in the world. Then he died with almost nothing.
America · Miami
Police say a Port St. Lucie man in a costume raid jacket frightened Brazilian expatriates casting ballots at Miami Dade College. He says he wanted to see their reactions. Miami-Dade’s elections chief says ICE will not be at the polls in November.
America · Public Health
With Tampa Bay at the center and new cases popping up from Miami-Dade to Fort Lauderdale, South Florida health officials are urging residents to drain standing water and cover up before the rainy season ends.
America · Heritage Month
The son of an Italian bandmaster and a Jewish mother from Trieste, he translated for frightened immigrants at Ellis Island, then spent three terms remaking New York as one of the most beloved mayors in American history.
America · Heritage Month
A mob’s murder of 11 Italian immigrants became one of the darkest chapters in Italian American history — and its diplomatic fallout helped give the country a holiday Italian Americans would claim as their own.
America · Heritage
In 1942, while their sons fought for the United States, some 600,000 Italian immigrants were branded enemy aliens — placed under curfew, forced from their homes and, in some cases, locked away. For decades, almost no one talked about it.
America · Heritage
She arrived in New York in 1889 with six sisters, little English and no welcome. By her death, Frances Xavier Cabrini had built dozens of schools, orphanages and hospitals across the Americas — and become the first U.S. citizen named a saint.
America · History
He did not discover the New World, and he never asked to have it named after him. But a Florentine merchant’s insistence that the lands across the Atlantic were something entirely new changed how Europe understood the planet.
America · Surveillance
The license-plate-camera company says it doesn’t object to public photography of its staff. But police calls over people recording its workers have handed critics a pointed question about who gets privacy in public.
America · Crime
Prosecutors say Flynn murdered his wife and staged a break-in after carrying on a secret affair. His defense says investigators built a circumstantial case around his infidelity.
America · Housing
New apartments and a softer condominium market are giving some residents more negotiating power, but housing costs remain badly misaligned with local incomes.
America · Crime
Braden Peters, the online personality known as Clavicular, is facing criminal charges in Massachusetts over allegations that he raped and drugged a teenager during an encounter on Cape Cod last year, bringing new scrutiny to an internet figure who gained…
America · Profile
How a South African kid with a head full of sci-fi dreams rewired the planet, pissed off half the internet, and cashed in bigger than anyone in human history.
America · The Day in America
In the grand American tradition of never doing anything halfway, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, delivered a perfect storm of geopolitical fireworks, pocketbook panic, border politics, billionaire drama, and basketball bedlam.
America · The Day in America
Yesterday, May 4, 2026, offered a quintessentially American tableau: fantasy-fueled escapism clashing with the harsh realities of foreign entanglements, domestic security scares, reproductive rights battles, and economic disruption.
