Daniel Rivero News Today

In a little more than a week, police say they have made over 60 arrests for driving without a permit and issued 170+ infraction notices under Operation Ride Right.

The New York Police Department threatened to arrest several members of the Columbia Journalism School faculty - including the Dean Jelani Cobb - while they sheltered in the university's Pulitzer Hall, as police raided Hamilton Hall and arrested individuals occupying the academic building.

A WLRN investigation begins to reveal the scope of SB 256, a sweeping anti-union labor law passed in 2023. What is emerging is an outright crisis for teachers and other public sector workers. “The work conditions of hundreds of thousands of people are going to be up in the air,” said one advocate.

Juan Matos reports in 14yMedio from Manzanillo via Translating Cuba: ‘Bosses at State-Owned Businesses Are Living on Another Planet’, Cubans Complain “No private companies were invited? We’re wasting our time,” one young man was heard saying as he left the “job fair” held on Monday at the local headquarters of the Ministry of Labor in

What follows is a month-by-month breakdown/recap of the early months with some of the more impactful news stories of the year that was. 

Florida taxpayer-owned Citizens is using unlicensed inspectors in a little-known program that is ramping up inspections, WLRN found. Homeowners and industry insiders call it alarming.

Amaury Pacheco's work in the Cuban independent arts scene put him in the crosshairs of the Communist government. Now, he's building a new life in Miami under the Biden administration's historic humanitarian parole program.

The law changes how most public employees pay union dues, while requiring that more members pay dues to keep unions alive.

Former President Donald Trump pleaded 'not guilty' to 37 federal charges during a Miami court appearance on Tuesday. Follow NPR for live updates and analysis.

Investigations Editor Brittany Wallman, Senior Editor David Schutz and reporters David Fleshler and Spencer Norris won first place in the 2023 Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards for their Innocence Sold investigative series.