With reporters shot and roughed up, advocates question whether those covering protests are targets

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 11, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By DAVID BAUDER More than two dozen journalists have been injured or roughed up while covering protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles, leading press freedom groups to question whether law enforcement has been deliberately targeting reporters on the story. Related Articles US Rep. LaMonica McIver indicted on federal charges from skirmish at New Jersey immigration center Southern Baptists overwhelmingly call for a ban on gay marriage Louisiana lawmakers pass bill targeting out-of-state doctors who prescribe and...

Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe shot in Bogota

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 8, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, News, Politics.

By Patricia Laya and Andreina Itriago, Bloomberg News Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot at an event in Bogota, with his condition still unclear. The 39-year-old candidate from the opposition Centro Democratico party was taken to a medical center in the Colombian capital, Semana reported. Online footage of the shooting showed Uribe’s head and back covered in blood, the outlet reported. The gunman has been detained, Bogota Mayor Carlos Galan said on X. The shooting drew immediate condemnation from President Gustavo Petro’s government, which reiterated...

Appeals court upholds injunction blocking Florida law targeting undocumented immigrants

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 7, 2025. Posted in Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

TALLAHASSEE — A federal appeals court Friday kept on hold a new Florida law targeting undocumented immigrants who enter the state, rejecting arguments by Attorney General James Uthmeier that enforcement should at least temporarily be allowed. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in April issued a preliminary injunction to block the law, which she said was likely preempted by federal immigration authority. Uthmeier appealed the injunction to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked for a stay of Williams’ ruling. Such a stay could have allowed the law to be enforced while the legal...

Man charged with defrauding grieving Broward family out of $1 million home

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 6, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

Two months after a father of four died, a man filed a fake deed in his name to take ownership of his $1 million Pembroke Pines home, officials say. He is now facing felony charges. Armando Porto Del Sol, of Miami Gardens, was arrested Thursday in Miami and charged with multiple felonies: grand theft in the first degree, fraudulent use of personal identification information, criminal use of deceased personal identification information and unlawful filing of false documents, according to the Broward Property Appraiser. The arrest came after a combined effort between the Property Appraiser’s...

Trump moves to block US entry for foreigners planning to study at Harvard University

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 5, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that accounts for a quarter of the student body. In an executive order signed Wednesday, Trump declared that it would jeopardize national security to allow Harvard to continue hosting foreign students on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “I have determined that the entry of the class of foreign nationals described above is...

Trump announces travel ban and restrictions on 19 countries set to go into effect Monday

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 5, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and FARNOUSH AMIRI, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term, announcing that citizens of 12 countries would be banned from visiting the United States and those from seven others would face restrictions. The ban takes effect Monday at 12:01 a.m., a cushion that avoids the chaos that unfolded at airports nationwide when a similar measure took effect with virtually no notice in 2017. Trump, who signaled plans for a new ban upon taking office in January, appears to be on firmer ground this time...

Spanish government says housing market is not a ‘free for all’ after recent crackdown on Airbnb

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 4, 2025. Posted in Business, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Network, News, World News.

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM MADRID (AP) — Spain ‘s government wanted to send a message last month with its crackdown on Airbnb: that the Spanish economy and its housing market are not a “free for all” that value profits over the rule of law, a minister told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Related Articles Fed lifts restrictions placed on Wells Fargo in 2018 because of its fake-accounts scandal Education Department says it will not garnish Social Security of student loan borrowers in default Snack Wrap unwrapped: Here’s why...

Judge grants preliminary injunction to protect collective bargaining agreement for TSA workers

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 3, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By MARTHA BELLISLE SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction to stop Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from killing a collective bargaining agreement for Transportation Safety Administration workers. Related Articles Supreme Court to hear Boca-based prison company’s appeal in suit over immigration detainee wages Judge blocks administration from revoking protected status for small subset of Venezuelans Trump asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for federal downsizing...

Man shot by Broward sheriff’s deputy in West Park

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 2, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

A man was shot by a Broward sheriff’s deputy in West Park Sunday afternoon after punching a deputy in the face, according to the sheriff’s office. The man, who was not identified, was taken to the hospital. An update on his condition was not immediately available. The incident began shortly before 12:30 p.m. when a 911 caller reported a “suspicious incident involving a weapon,” on the 4000 block of S.W. 26 Street, said Carey Codd, spokesman for the sheriff’s office. “On scene an adult male subject punched a deputy in the face,” he said at a news conference, held in front of yellow...

Multiple people set on fire in “targeted act of violence” using makeshift flamethrower in Boulder, Colo.

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on June 2, 2025. Posted in Crime and Public Safety, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News.

BOULDER – At least six people marching in support of Israeli hostages held in Gaza were burned on Sunday by a man wielding what authorities called a “makeshift flamethrower” and an incendiary device. The attack happened just before 1:30 p.m. on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, during a walk organized by the city’s chapter of “Run for Their Lives,” which calls for the release of hostages held in Gaza by the terrorist group Hamas. Mark Michalek, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Denver field office, characterized the incident as a “targeted act of violence” and said it’s under investigation as...

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