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Politics / Issues
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The judge issued a permanent injunction against the part that targeted non-citizens, saying it violated the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.
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The colors of the pride flag will be replaced by red, white and blue on the Sunshine Skyway for the Freedom Summer Tax Holiday.
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Bryan Maclean Howard pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence-manslaughter.
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Kathy Kaefer is singing across the country in a cabaret act. “Kiss Me Once: Stories from the Homefront with Kathy Kaefer” comes to the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center on Saturday.
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Rounds of storms to end the week, especially the most severe for the western Panhandle, but some storms could move over the rest of the state throughout the weekend.
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The death of Senior Airman Roger Fortson has community leaders including the NAACP asking whether unconscious bias led the deputy to shoot the young service member simply because he was a young, Black male and ask what, if anything, can be done to prevent this kind of tragedy.
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Improved track and intensity forecasts make it easier for the public to prepare for hurricanes, but forecasters at the annual Governor’s Hurricane Conference say short fuse hurricanes — that rapidly intensify near land — remain a concern.
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Health News Florida
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The recently hired dean, Laura Jean Fero, 54 of Apopka, faces charges related to her previous position in Minnesota.
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Dr. Nisha Verma says in the nearly two years since Georgia's six-week abortion ban went into effect, she's seen patients suffer and some colleagues leave the state. She fears the same thing will happen in Florida.
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French police shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who is suspected of having set fire to a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen early on Friday, authorities said.
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In response to a lawsuit from environmentalists, the Biden administration is ending new leases for coal mining on federal lands in the most productive part of America's top coal producing state.
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President Biden to meet leaders of Black sororities and fraternities. Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama finish union vote. Boeing's shareholder meeting comes at a turbulent time for the company.
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