MIAMI (Reuters) – The aroma of baking bread wafts through the supermarket, even when the ovens are empty. The breezy scent of coconut oil floats through the bathing suit aisle of the department store when summer is months away.

Welcome to the world of scent marketing. Retailers are increasingly using ambient scents to induce shoppers to stay longer, spend more and maybe even behave a little more kindly toward fellow shoppers.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Three influential Cuban-American Republicans endorsed Mitt Romney as the party’s presidential nominee on Tuesday in a move aimed at boosting his support among the party’s conservative and Hispanic voters.

“The three amigos are back!” Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said as she joined Representative Mario Diaz-Balart and his brother, former Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart, to make the endorsement at a food company warehouse in Miami.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain sipped Cuban-style coffee and tossed out a few Spanish words during a sweaty rally in the heart of Miami’s Cuban exile community on Wednesday, but made only one vague reference to Florida’s communist Caribbean neighbor.

The former pizza company executive laid out his plan for reviving the American economy during the rally in the parking lot of the Versailles restaurant in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – The beige-carpeted room where an al Qaeda chief appeared last week charged with blowing a hole in the side of an American warship looks like any modern court, with pop-up computer screens at lawyers’ tables and a judge in black robes presiding from the bench.

But it sits in a warehouse-like building on an abandoned airfield at the Guantanamo Bay Navy base in southeast Cuba, ringed by barbed wire and nestled among rows of khaki tents and trailers in an “expeditionary” compound that was never meant to be permanent.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – An alleged al Qaeda chieftain accused of launching a deadly bomb attack in 2000 on a U.S. Navy ship was arraigned on Wednesday at a U.S. military tribunal hearing marked by questions about how the judge would handle potential evidence of torture.

Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, a round-faced 46-year-old Saudi with close-cropped black hair and dark stubble, appeared in public for the first time during his nine years in U.S. custody.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – An alleged al Qaeda chieftain accused of launching a deadly bomb attack in 2000 on a U.S. Navy ship was arraigned on Wednesday at a U.S. military tribunal hearing marked by questions about how the judge would handle potential evidence of torture.

Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, a rotund 46-year-old Saudi with close-cropped black hair and dark stubble, appeared in public for the first time during his nine years in U.S. custody.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – Members of the U.S. public will be allowed to watch a broadcast of Wednesday’s arraignment hearing for a Guantanamo prisoner accused of masterminding a deadly attack on a U.S. Navy warship, but only if they can get to an army base in Maryland by Wednesday morning.

The chief judge in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal signed an order on Monday granting permission for the public to view the closed-circuit broadcast being beamed to the Fort Meade Army base in Maryland.

NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – Nine years after his capture and a decade after the United States first authorized military tribunals for terrorist suspects, the alleged mastermind of the deadly bombing of the USS Cole will face a judge in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.

Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, a 46-year-old Saudi of Yemeni descent, is to be arraigned Wednesday on charges that include murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and terrorism.

MIAMI (Reuters) – The U.S. war crimes tribunal that will try the alleged planner of a deadly attack on a U.S. warship has no power to free him if he is acquitted, military prosecutors said in court documents made public on Wednesday.

Defense lawyers have argued that the trial of Guantanamo prisoner Abd al-Rahim al Nashiri would be merely a show trial if there was no meaningful possibility of reprieve if he is found not guilty.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Florida is expected to set its U.S. presidential primary election for Jan. 31, setting off a game of leapfrog as various states try to increase their influence by moving ahead in the nominating process, state officials said on Wednesday.

The date will not become final until Florida’s date selection committee meets in Tallahassee on Friday.