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Cuba this week is reporting its worst sugarcane harvest in more than a century. It could exacerbate the island's economic crisis — and the flight of migrants to the U.S.
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NEWS
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Governor Ron DeSantis signs condo reform legislation. The forecast for the upcoming hurricane season. Plus, we're talking with a botany professor about a rare and beautiful plant that grows in South Florida – the Cigar Orchid. -
Several counties across the greater Tampa Bay region are now at a high risk of COVID-19.
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After Parkland, Florida passed a new gun law and efforts to protect schools. Are they safer now?
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They supported Florida’s attempt to overturn a district judge’s ruling last year that blocked key parts of the law.
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Abbott says the information that he provided at a press conference two days ago was a recitation of what law enforcement had told him in a room beforehand.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a bill that will give law-enforcement officers, firefighters and other first responders more time to file workers’ compensation insurance claims for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is urging the Biden administration to make Haiti’s ongoing crisis a focus during next month’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.
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The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Florida Department of Education is investigating who purchased the book Gender Queer: A Memoir for the Orange County Schools library system.
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Two teachers and 19 students were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, making it the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. At least four others were injured.
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Case counts are as high as they’ve been since mid-February, part of a national surge arriving ahead of the Memorial Day holiday, as the school year wraps up and Americans prepare for summer vacations.
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Republican attorneys general from 17 states backed Florida this week in a legal battle about a 2019 law that banned so-called sanctuary cities. They filed a brief supporting Florida’s attempt to overturn a district judge’s ruling that blocked key parts of the law.
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The deputy attorney general told Congress last year that prosecutors would review new evidence about FBI failures in the investigation of Larry Nassar.
Sundial
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Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via APPeople in South Florida affected by the Parkland school shooting are reacting to the tragedy that unfolded at an elementary school in Texas. Two possible monkeypox cases are being investigated in Broward. Plus, in honor of our Sundial book club, we learn about the real-life cocaine cowboys who shaped Miami. -
For voters in Colombia, a former guerrilla rebel is ahead in the race. The Biden Administration relaxes sanctions against Cuba. Plus, A piece of South Florida history turns 100. What will the next century look like considering sea-level rise and climate change?
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