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An insurance agent talks with clients inside the main location of Las Madrinas de los Seguros, Spanish for "The Godmothers of Insurance," at a shopping center in Miami, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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As Trump threatens to repeal Obamacare, these 'insurance godmothers' are signing Florida Latinos up
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Fri,12/15/23-11:19PM , 264 Reads
MIAMI (AP) — Salsa music blares from the food court in a rundown Miami shopping center as Latinos head to a kiosk and an office showing signs for “ Obamacare,” where they hope to renew their
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Florida state Sen. Lauren Book and her six-year-old son Hudson look at a phone app which provides real-time rocket alerts to Israeli citizens, Oct. 24, 2023, in Plantation, Fla. Book follows the alerts to stay informed and help her children understand what is happening. "I don't want to forget. I don't want my children to ever forget. I don't want my community to forget." (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war is a political test in South Florida's Jewish community
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Thu,11/02/23-11:51PM , 232 Reads
SURFSIDE, Florida (AP) — On a recent balmy South Florida night, dozens of people gathered at a synagogue along a palm tree-lined road to talk about the war going on thousands of miles away.
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures after speaking Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, at Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Donald Trump attacks President Biden on foreign policy as Israel-Hamas war rages
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Wed,10/11/23-2:23PM , 233 Reads
MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his record governing the nation for four years without any new wars, and criticized President Joe Biden’s foreign policy as the world watches a war that has
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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, left, argues a point with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, right, between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX Business Network and Univision, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

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Some GOP candidates want to use force against Mexico to stop fentanyl. Experts say that won't work
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Sun,10/08/23-7:14AM , 52 Reads
MIAMI (AP) — Ron DeSantis wants suspected drug smugglers at the U.S.-Mexico border to be shot dead. Nikki Haley promises to send American special forces into Mexico. Vivek Ramaswamy has accused Mexico's leader of treating drug cartels as his “sugar daddy” and says that if he is elected president, “there will be a new daddy in town.”
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