Al Diaz

1 day ago | miamiherald.com | Al Diaz

Cam Ward spent his entire career betting on himself when there were so many reasons to doubt what could happen. He was a zero-star recruit out of high school. He had no offers at the Football Bowl Subdivision level. He had to forge his own path. “There was one point where I didn’t have one camera looking at me,” Ward said. “Now the whole world is looking at me.”Confidence in oneself can do wonders, and Ward certainly doesn’t lack confidence. He knew he was talented.

2 days ago | miamiherald.com | Al Diaz

On Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation League released our annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents for 2024. The numbers are staggering. There were 9,354 incidents of antisemitic assault, harassment, and vandalism across the country — a 5% increase over 2023. In Florida, ADL tracked 353 antisemitic incidents in 2024. While this represents a 24% decline from the 463 incidents recorded the previous year, Florida continues to experience heightened levels of antisemitism.

3 days ago | kentucky.com | Al Diaz

Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, whose warm, humble, no-nonsense manner galvanized the Roman Catholic Church and drew widespread admiration from outsiders almost from the moment of his surprise election to the throne of St. Peter in 2013, has died. The church’s 266th leader, Francis died Monday morning, the Vatican announced.

4 days ago | miamiherald.com | Al Diaz

How is this not a rebuild? Anyone who looks at the moves the Miami Dolphins have made since Valentine’s Day, when the roster remodeling started with the release of a couple veterans, shouldn’t even question this. The Dolphins’ decision-makers run and hide at the mention of the R words — rebuild, remodel, a reset, whatever you want to call this redirection — but that’s just ignorance, or denial speaking.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Al Diaz

Editor’s note: Miami healthcare CEO Michael “Mike” B. Fernandez wrote the following open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and members of the Republican Cuban-American Miami-Dade congressional delegation: U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez and Maria Elvira Salazar. For decades, I have stood with you in defense of the freedoms we cherish, those we were denied in the country of our birth and found in the grace of this one. I know what it means to flee tyranny.