Family and friends of the 150 people still missing after a Florida condominium collapsed last week faced a sixth wrenching day of waiting on Tuesday, as search and rescue crews continued to sift through the mangled remains of Champlain Towers South.
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– Maanvi Singh and Vivian Ho
As the United States has become more diverse, it has also become more racially segregated, according to a new nationwide analysis from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
More than 80% of America’s large metropolitan areas were more racially segregated in 2019 than they were in 1990, the researchers found, even though explicit racial discrimination in housing has been outlawed for half a century. The levels of residential segregation appeared highest not in the American south, but in parts of the north-east and midwest: the most segregated metropolitan area in the US according to the study is New York City, followed by Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit.
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Continue reading...The death toll from a building collapse in the Miami suburb of Surfside rose to 11 on Monday, as rescue operations continued into a fifth day.
Officials urged people to maintain hope survivors might be found in the wreckage of the collapsed condo building. A further 150 people who may have been in the building remained unaccounted for, the mayor of Miami-Dade, Daniella Levine Cava, said on Monday evening.
Continue reading...Crews make progress against flames while questions asked about 2018 report on structural damage
Officials in Florida insisted on Sunday there was still hope of finding survivors in the rubble of a collapsed oceanfront condominium building, as firefighters finally controlled a large blaze inside the wreckage that hampered three days of rescue efforts.
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Continue reading...Aerial footage of the Surfside community near Miami, Florida, shows the extent of damage after a 12-storey oceanfront residential building partly collapsed in the early hours of Thursday. Officials announced on Friday that the death toll had reached four, and said it was likely to climb far higher as rescuers continued to sift through the debris
Continue reading...A film shows the moment an apartment block in Miami-Dade in Florida suddenly caved in. Hundreds of people remain unaccounted for after the partial collapse of the beachside building, and four people have already been confirmed dead.
Miami-Dade's mayor, Daniella Levine Cava, noted on Friday that rescue officials were still searching for survivors more than 24 hours after the building collapsed early on Thursday
Continue reading...Family and friends of the more than 100 people still missing after a building collapsed in Miami said they were not 'losing hope' of hearing from their loved ones who remained unaccounted for. Four people are known to have been killed and 11 injuries were reported following the collapse of much of the 12-storey Champlain Towers South building in Miami, on the south Florida coast.
The residential structure pancaked into a pile of concrete and metal more than 30ft high for reasons still unknown
The death toll in a Miami building collapse rose to four on Friday morning a day and 159 were unaccounted for after a 12-storey condominium slumped into rubble on the south Florida Atlantic coast.
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Continue reading...Dozens still unaccounted for after part of a beachfront condominium block collapses in Surfside
Continue reading...Dozens of rescue units were on the scene of a partial building collapse in Miami after the entire back side of the 12-story building collapsed.
Photos and video from the scene show the collapse affected half the block. Piles of rubble and debris surrounded the area just outside the building. One person was reportedly killed and at least 10 injured, according to the Washington Post
Continue reading...At least two people were killed and more than 20 injured in Miami early on Sunday as attackers opened fire on concertgoers outside a banquet hall. It was the city’s second deadly mass shooting in little more than 24 hours.
Alfredo Ramirez of Miami-Dade police department confirmed that two people died at the scene and ‘20 to 25’ people were in hospital.
Continue reading...At least two people were killed and more than 20 injured in Miami early on Sunday as attackers opened fire on concertgoers outside a banquet hall. It was the city’s second deadly mass shooting in little more than 24 hours.
A police spokesman said the shooting happened in the Hialeah area. Three people got out of a white SUV and began firing on a line outside the El Mula banquet hall. The attackers used assault rifles and a handgun, authorities said.
Continue reading...Miami Beach officials have extended a curfew and state of emergency into April, in response to large spring-break crowds of partygoers defying coronavirus restrictions.
Police used pellets and teargas to disperse the revellers
Continue reading...Miami Beach officials have extended a curfew and state of emergency into April, in response to large spring-break crowds of partygoers who have celebrated in the area’s bars and beaches despite the coronavirus.
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Continue reading...Miami Beach officials have warned that the unruly spring break crowd gathering by the thousands, fighting in the streets, destroying restaurant property and refusing to wear masks has become a serious threat to public safety, after 1,000 arrests were made.
At a last-minute meeting, city officials voted to extend a highly unusual 8pm curfew for another week along famed South Beach, with the possibility of extending it well into April if needed, and stressed this wasn’t the typical spring break crowd. They said it’s not college students, but adults looking to let loose in one of the few states fully open during the pandemic.
Continue reading...Donald Trump’s election campaign in 2016 targeted nearly 3.5 million Black Americans to deter them from voting, and the battle for the right to vote is just as important in 2020. Kenya Evelyn travels to Florida where it's the Democrats' most loyal bloc, Black women, who are also bearing the brunt of the coronavirus outbreak, with its impact accelerating the fight for voting rights. From mail-in ballots and early voting, to felon disenfranchisement, Black voters are wielding their power to demand more from Democrats ahead of November
Crowds of young Americans have flocked to Florida to celebrate spring break, defying guidelines from health officials to practise social distancing and avoid large gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic
Sussexes appear in one of their first engagements since stepping down as senior royals
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended an exclusive JP Morgan event in one of their first engagements since stepping down as senior royals, a palace source has said.
It is unclear whether the couple, who have pledged to become more financially independent, were paid for their roles as speakers at a summit the banking giant hosted in Miami on Thursday.
Continue reading...Highest levels of PFAS in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, report by environmental watchdog finds
The contamination of US drinking water with manmade “forever chemicals” is far worse than previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report on Wednesday by an environmental watchdog group.
The chemicals, resistant to breaking down in the environment, are known as perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Some have been linked to cancers, liver damage, low birth weight and other health problems.
Continue reading...Performance artist consumes masterpiece in front of crowd at Art Basel in Miami, but ‘the idea’ apparently lives on
An artwork that sold last week for $120,000 and was hailed as “a symbol of global trade” has been eaten, in what might seem a fitting end for something that was an ever-ripening banana duct-taped to a wall.
The piece, titled Comedian, by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was on show at the international gallery Perrotin at Art Basel in Miami when New York performance artist David Datuna ate it, saying he was hungry.
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