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Every president since Ronald Reagan has visited the 1953 armistice line, except for George H.W. Bush, who visited when he was vice president. The show of bravado and support for South Korea, one of America’s closest military allies, has evolved over the years to include binoculars and bomber jackets. ... Read More

“Before the Parkland shooting, law enforcement, including the FBI, received several warnings about Nikolas Cruz’s desire and capability to carry out a school shooting,” the Schentrup lawsuit says. “Despite the FBI’s awareness of Cruz’s gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, disturbing social media posts, and the potential of him conducting a school shooting, the FBI failed to follow established protocols that would have prevented the shooting from taking... Read More

The Danny Boyle-directed musical romantic comedy featuring the music of the Beatles debuted well over industry expectations, earning an estimated $17 million from North American theaters. In a summer where most films have debuted either under or at industry tracking, which are often lowball projections, and original comedies have struggled to find audiences, “Yesterday” proved to be the exception. ... Read More

Every president since Ronald Reagan has visited the 1953 armistice line, except for George H.W. Bush, who visited when he was vice president. The show of bravado and support for South Korea, one of America’s closest military allies, has evolved over the years to include binoculars and bomber jackets. ... Read More

“When you start to relaunch the aircraft you don’t have two runways to use, you only have one, so it’s like one lane of traffic versus two lanes,” said airport spokesman Greg Meyer. “It does take us a little longer to recover and that’s where we experience the delays inbound and outbound.” ... Read More

Birdlife International, which tracks the status of all birds, says 40 percent of the Earth’s 10,000 species are in decline. Beneath that statistic, a complex and mysterious natural triage is unfolding. Some species, such as blackbirds, cardinals, eagles and ospreys, are thriving. Many others are not, including some hummingbirds, many warblers, seabirds, some ducks and birds that migrate the length of the hemisphere through a gamut of altering habitats. ... Read More

Their argument was that the cross violated the establishment clause of the constitution. But how can the Christian cross, or prayer, or creation, or evangelizing, etc. violate the clause since they have been “established” since the founding of our country? ... Read More

• Earnest, but a little too cerebral. All head and no heart. And he got backed into a corner by Julian Castro on the immigration issue and seemed to lose his footing. He was one of three candidates who spoke in Spanish, which is not that unusual to a Florida audience but received a lot of national media attention. • Bilingual Beto shook things up when he burst into his rough Spanish in answering his first question. Some may have liked it, others may have seen it as pandering to the Miami... Read More

No one knows how many thousands of pythons infest the Everglades. They arrived through the exotic pet trade, as released pets or through escapes during Hurricane Andrew, experts say, and have taken a fearful toll on wildlife. In Everglades National Park, many small mammals, such as marsh rabbits, have become rare. The snakes also eat birds, alligators and many species of mammal, including full-grown deer. ... Read More

Yes, you can swim for free at Hilton West Palm Beach, says Hilton spokeswoman Katie Cherubin. The downtown hotel’s best-kept secret is its ground-floor pool, featuring live music, food and yoga on the weekend. The Hilton’s website doesn’t advertise this freebie on purpose, but locals have caught wind of the deal through word-of-mouth, Cherubin says. ... Read More