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Fabiola Santiago: The Florida Legislature’s big push this session? Raise students’ level of ignorance

To understand the state of education in 2022 Florida, take 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous love question — and add a twist: How do I mess with thee, Florida public schools, this legislative session?

Miami Herald

FTC claims South Florida company violated Do Not Call list to peddle ‘bogus’ auto warranties

How many times have you received a phone call from someone at “Dealer Services” seeking to sell you an extended warranty for your vehicle?

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Fla. legislature is moving condo safety in the right direction

Florida lawmakers are moving quickly to prevent another deadly condo collapse. Legislation in the House and Senate would subject older condominium buildings in Florida to regular inspection, with the House measure going further to help ensure that structural problems are actually addressed. These are essential starting points in improving safety…

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DeSantis now supports taking $200 million from schools that mandated masks

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis now supports a plan to withhold $200 million in funding from 12 school districts that mandated masks because of the pandemic, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Orlando Sentinel

Kokkinakis outplayed by Korda in Florida

Thanasi Kokkinakis, Jordan Thompson and Alexi Popyrin have all been beaten in first-round action on the ATP Tour.

AAP

Voting advocates call truce on legislative maps in Florida’s redistricting fight

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — After years of litigation and bitter opposition from the Republican-led Legislature, the coalition of voter advocacy groups that brought the state its redistricting standards have called a truce.

Miami Herald

Florida Cop Pulls 3 Swimmers From Ocean After They Were Caught In Rip Current

One of the swimmers later died. Powerful rip currents are responsible for the deaths of an estimated 100 people each year.

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Disney World: No more masks indoors for vaccinated visitors

Starting this week, this masks are coming off for vaccinated visitors to Walt Disney World in Florida

The Independent UK

The GOP's new "don't say gay" strategy

Republicans seek to use "don't say gay" bills to gut public education like they did abortion access

Salon

Bills to ban US schools’ discussion of LGBTQ+ issues are threat to free speech – report

Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is one of many aiming ‘to lock LGBTQ+ topics on the wrong side of the schoolhouse gate’

The Guardian - US

Elsa caused $1 billion in damage amid Florida landfall and beyond, NHC says

ORLANDO, Fla. — New information on Hurricane Elsa spun into formation last week, seven months after the first hurricane of the 2021 season took form.

Orlando Sentinel

Jury finds New York Times did not defame Sarah Palin – as it happened

Former Republican vice-presidential nominee sued the newspaper in 2017 claiming an editorial damaged her career

The Guardian - US

College Performers of the Week powered by Rapsodo: Fred Biondi, Florida

Fred Biondi became the latest Florida player to claim the individual title at the Gators Invitaitonal.

USA Today Sports Media Group

College Performers of the Week powered by Rapsodo: Florida men’s golf

A pair of in-state victories to start the spring, including a big one at home, suggest Florida might have turned around its season.

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Orlando Sentinel

Amid book challenges, parents and censorship foes raise alarms

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orange County, Florida, Public Schools removed one book from school libraries this fall because of a parent’s complaint about sexually explicit content and three others face reviews, including a memoir by a gay Black author already ousted from school libraries in Florida and several other states.

Tribune News Service

‘What we have in Florida is inadequate:’ State’s COVID monitoring system leaves public blind to new variants

Two years into the pandemic, Florida’s monitoring system for COVID has left the public blind to the arrival of highly contagious variants.

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Brian Laundrie’s remains showed ‘carnivore predation activity’ including ‘gnawing and chewing’

A medical examiner’s report indicates the bones of Brian Laundrie — the only person of interest in the homicide of travel blogger Gabby Petito — were gnawed on by animals after the 23-year-old Florida man shot himself in the head in October 2021.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

First lady Jill Biden to visit Miami, Tampa as White House relaunches ‘Cancer Moonshot’

WASHINGTON — First lady Jill Biden will travel to Florida on Thursday for a pair of events in Tampa and Miami on Friday as the Biden administration ramps up its “Cancer Moonshot” program.

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I do, I do, I do: Mass Valentine's wedding at Florida museum

The nine brides wore white

The Independent UK

Popcorn toss key in trial of 2014 Florida theater shooting

The role of a tossed bag of movie popcorn played a central role Monday as a trial opened for a retired Florida police captain who fatally shot a man in a theater eight years ago

The Guardian - US

Murder trial begins of former Florida police captain who shot dead moviegoer

Curtis Reeves, 79, killed Chad Oulson, 43, in a Tampa suburb in 2014 over the younger man checking text messages during previews

The Independent UK

Biden renews calls for gun control on fourth anniversary of Parkland, Florida school shooting massacre

Congress must require ‘background checks on all gun sales,’ ban ‘assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,’ and eliminate immunity for gun makers, president says

Tribune News Service

‘You can’t keep reliving it’: Stoneman Douglas trauma endures, but healing continues four years later

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It was supposed to be a day filled with expressions of young love at a high school in one of Florida’s safest communities.

The Guardian - US

Judge dismisses Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against New York Times – as it happened

Former governor did not provide sufficient evidence, judge rules – follow all the latest news

Orlando Sentinel

Editorial: The lessons of the Parkland massacre resonated this year

It’s been four years since students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland learned what it was like to be stalked by a killer in a place they thought was safe. Since they learned how it felt to flee or hide as gunshots rang out; to…

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