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With a trade war with China souring markets and the fallout of his defense of Russia at the G7, Trump spent his day tweeting about all kinds of things including a denial there are bed bugs at his resort near…

The 18-year-old Florida woman who was allegedly "infatuated" with the Columbine High School massacre has been found dead. Days before the 20th anniversary of the school shooting, Sol Pais traveled to Colorado from Miami and bought a pump-action shotgun, which…

Aiming to crack down on money laundering and bribes to overseas governments, the FBI is stepping up its efforts to root out foreign corruption with a new squad of agents based in Miami. The squad will focus its efforts not only on Miami but also in South America, a continent that has been home to some of the Justice Department's most significant international corruption prosecutions of the last several years. "We're protecting the rule of law," Leslie Backschies, the chief of the FBI's international corruption unit, said in an interview Monday. "One thing when I talk to companies, I'm like, 'When you pay a bribe, do you know where your bribe goes? We've had a lot of work there," Backshies said. "When you're looking at foreign officials in other governments — I mean, look, in Malaysia, the president wasn't re-elected. The agents are working to ensure there's "a place where business can compete fairly," and in most cases other governments are glad to accept the FBI's help in rooting out corruption, Backschies said. "You can't just have one agent or two agents in a field office addressing it. The unit had been splitting cases involving South American countries between the three other offices before Backschies decided they should refocus their resources and add agents in Miami. "Beverly Hills, New York, Miami — these are cities where we find people hiding their money" in real estate and boating, Backshies said.

Bomb squad called to assist in package investigation at Florida mail facility A Miami-Dade police bomb squad and K-9 unit were called to assist with the ongoing suspicious package investigation at a mail processing and distribution center in Opa-Locka, Florida, the department tweeted. According to two law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation, authorities believe several of the packages went through the US Postal Service facility, roughly 12 miles from Miami. Watch: Canada's Trudeau on explosive devices: "All citizens deserve to live in peace and security" Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the series of suspicious packages that were sent to prominent Democrats and others as "deeply concerning." "I want to ensure all Canadians that we are monitoring the situation closely and as always Canada stands ready to provide assistance to our American friends and allies if need be," he said. Joe Biden: "We've got to turn off this hate machine" Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is in Buffalo for a speech this evening, was asked in Lancaster, New York, about the devices that were sent to him and other prominent Democrats this week. “We’ve got to turn off this hate machine. People want us to choose hope over hate. Phillip Bartley, inspector in charge of the US Postal Inspection Service in New York division, said more than 600,000 postal workers were looking for the packages. Mayor Bill de Blasio: "New Yorkers are standing strong" Speaking at a news conference on Thursday afternoon, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio thanked federal and state officials for their response and the ongoing investigation. De Blasio also urged the public to help address the political division by creating "a tone of civility, a tone of mutual respect."

Carlos Curbelo. The Republican Congressman from Miami months ago looked like he could be Florida’s most vulnerable incumbent House member, representing a district that Hillary Clinton won by an overwhelming 16 percentage points. A New York Times poll last week was the latest to show Curbelo slightly ahead — and raising doubts about a big Democratic wave looming in the Sunshine State. Adam Putnam. The Tampa Bay Times reported last week that the agriculture commissioner and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate had hired to donor’s son for a $91,000 job. More shameless is as how that information was released: The Times made a public records request in May, and Putnam’s office finally released it after he lost the gubernatorial primary Aug. 28. Runner up. Bill Nelson. Nate Silver, the statistician and political prognosticator on fivethirtyeight.com pegged Nelson’s as the most vulnerable seat among 25 Democrats are defending this year. Nelson is neck and neck with Rick Scott, but that’s not a message he wants to send to the national party and donors deciding where to send money.

(As these are annual numbers, only larger counties have large enough populations for statistical significance, and, therefore, not all counties are included on the charts below.) When we consider the foreign-born population, we often think largely of immigrants from Latin America. But as our analysis last year noted and as Brookings Institution analysis of the new Census Bureau data suggests, more foreign-born residents of the United States come from Asia than from Latin America. The larger the circle on the chart above, the larger the percentage of the foreign-born population in that county which is from Latin America. They did so in 2016, as the chart below indicates. There’s a correlation between the urban population in a county and its vote. (In that chart, we’ve rescaled the circles to represent the overall population of foreign-born individuals in the county, not just those from Latin America.) If we consider the change in the foreign-born population, particularly the change in noncitizen foreign-born residents per county from 2008 to 2016, the places with the biggest increase in that population since 2008 were more likely to vote Republican. If we scale the circles to the populations of the county, the chart looks like this: Clearly Trump’s rhetoric on immigration, often echoing Bannon’s, was resonant in the 2016 campaign. Clearly, too, places with more foreign-born residents voted more heavily against him.

The Republican Mayor of Miami joins Stephanie Ruhle to explain his concerns for the children who have been separated from their parents and how he isn’t able to see the detention facility in his own area. » Subscribe to MSNBC:…

Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent, reports on similarities between Donald Trump and his friend, former Panama president Ricardo Martinelli, who is being held in a federal detention facility in Miami fighting extradition back to Panama. » Subscribe to…