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5:31 PM on Monday, September 14

Power giants NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy are rolling out plans to sweeten their proposed merger in Virginia, Dominion’s home base

5:25 PM on Monday, September 14

Detainees at a now-closed immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades — known as “Alligator Alcatraz” — were held for up to two hours in small metal enclosures used as “calming areas.”

11:58 AM on Monday, September 14

Officials say four people were hospitalized after a crane collapsed at a Miami construction site

11:42 AM on Monday, September 14

A lawyer for former CIA Director John Brennan says Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify next month before a Florida grand jury as part of a Justice Department investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against President Donald Trump

12:08 AM on Monday, September 14

The cargo airline that flew the plane that ran off the end of a Miami runway over Labor Day weekend and killed five people lost one of its biggest customers when Amazon suspended its partnership with 21 Air

10:49 AM on Sunday, September 13

Alexander Zverev won his second major championship and kept American men without a Grand Slam title since 2003, beating Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2 on Sunday in the U.S. Open final

Saturday, September 12

The McClatchy newspaper chain has made significant layoffs at The Miami Herald and other papers, cutting over 90 unionized journalists across 17 publications

12:49 PM on Friday, September 11

A federal court has declared that the Energy Department exceeded its authority by forcing a Michigan coal-fired power plant to remain open past its scheduled retirement date last year

9:31 AM on Friday, September 11

A Cuban man is fighting for a new life on his troubled island after the U.S. government expelled him as part of an immigration crackdown

12:01 AM on Thursday, September 10

A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected 1990s killings that became known as the “Hog Trail Murders” has been executed, becoming the state’s 15th person executed this year

9:06 PM on Wednesday, September 9

Barry Melrose, a hockey player-turned-coach who led the Los Angeles Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final before going on to a long career in broadcasting the sport, has died

7:47 PM on Wednesday, September 9

One of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway and killed five people repeatedly warned they were coming in too fast roughly two minutes ahead of the collision

2:45 PM on Wednesday, September 9

Five members of a cleaning crew were wrapping up their shift when they were killed as an Amazon cargo jet plowed into their van at the Miami airport

1:06 PM on Wednesday, September 9

A federal judge in Miami has ruled that social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate must remain in custody as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom

11:19 AM on Wednesday, September 9

Opening statements in the Facebook trial over privacy concerns linked to the 2016 election began in New Mexico on Wednesday

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9:02 AM on Wednesday, September 9

Scientists and investors are restoring a 23-square-mile tract of peatland in North Carolina to help curb climate-warming emissions and restore native habitat

8:15 AM on Wednesday, September 9

Venezuelans in the U.S. are grappling with the aftermath of the devastating back-to-back earthquakes that struck north-central Venezuela on June 24, killing at least 6,500 people, with thousands more still missing

8:14 AM on Wednesday, September 9

Kelly Granado Montano, a Venezuelan living in the U.S., has been grappling with the aftermath of devastating earthquakes in Venezuela