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Florida drag performers balance pain and defiance as anti-LGBTQ+ laws loom

TAMPA, Fla. — In a shimmering metallic dress and platform heels, amid the thump of an electronic dance mix, Brianna Summers scans the club’s dark lounge and runs through her checklist: exits, places to take cover, anyone that looks suspicious, anything out of place.

Tribune News Service

Noah Feldman: Florida can't take trans teens from their parents

Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives have passed a bill authorizing the state to take custody of children if their parents have agreed to give them gender-affirming health care. The law is obviously terrible policy. And it’s particularly hypocritical given that conservatives claim to support parental rights in making…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Florida is now where religious freedom goes to die

Republican lawmakers in Florida are crusaders for religious freedom — until it interferes with riling up the MAGA base. Why else would they criminalize pastoral outreach as a means to attack President Joe Biden on immigration policy?

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Gulf and Florida waters are rising faster than other parts of the US. Expect more flooding as a result

Sea levels have risen faster in the Gulf of Mexico and the Southeast coast than other parts of the U.S. in the last decade, according to two new studies.

Tribune News Service

Rough week, Ron? DeSantis flounders with Disney feud and abortion stance

Florida governor’s recent moves see him lose political capital – and support – as he prepares for likely presidential run

The Guardian - US

“Sir you are yelling”, “so is the baby”: Video showing man yelling about a crying baby on the flight goes viral

A viral video, reportedly available on TikTok, is being circulated on social media. The video is of a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight to Florida shouting at flight attendants and other passengers.

The Times of India

AP PHOTOS: Glimpses of a changing Earth, as seen from above

Charred, drained or swamped, built up, dug out or taken apart, blue or green or turned to dust: this is the Earth as seen from above. As the world commemorates Earth Day on Saturday, the footprints of human activity are visible across the planet’s surface. The relationship between people and…

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Florida students walk out in protest of state education policies

TAMPA, Fla. — The first students to arrive at the flagpole at Tampa’s Hillsborough High School carried small American flags.

Tribune News Service

‘We still have time to make a difference’: VP touts climate change investment in Florida

MIAMI — One week after massive flooding shut down Fort Lauderdale, Vice President Kamala Harris came to Miami to tout new federal cash to help protect Florida’s coasts from storms and flooding.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Former President Donald Trump Raises The Most From His Presidential Campaign Amid His Indictment

The Trump campaign has raised $14 million as he leads the polls against other GOP rivals including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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North Carolina man arrested for shooting six-year-old over a basketball has prior arrest for sledgehammer assault

Robert Singletary, 24, was arrested in Florida on Thursday for the 18 April shooting in his North Carolina neighbourhood

The Independent UK

Fort Lauderdale floods highlight climate risks to South Florida’s airports, seaports

MIAMI — Seaports and airports are the lifeblood of South Florida’s tourism-based economy. But as the relentless rains that swamped Fort Lauderdale last week illustrated, those critical transit and supply chain hubs are vulnerable to debilitating flooding.

Miami Herald

Trump wants to end DeSantis’s 2024 campaign before It even begins

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump is girding to take a swing at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on one of the things his chief rival is proudest of: his handling of his state’s economy.

Tribune News Service

Tiny Maine community devastated by loss of slain neighbors

Tireless, helpful and deeply religious are some of the ways Patti Eger’s friends remember her in the small Maine town of Lisbon Falls

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In Florida, Harris announces $562M for climate resilience

Returning to Florida to discuss climate change, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that $562 million will be spent on 149 projects around the country aimed at improving resilience to threats such as rising seas and the kinds of coastal flooding that recently slammed the southeast part of the state

The Guardian - US

Suspect in shooting of six-year-old over stray basketball arrested in Florida

Robert Singletary will not resist being transferred back to home state of North Carolina to face four attempted murder charges

The Independent UK

DeSantis signs law making Florida state with lowest threshold for death penalty in US

Florida has high level of exonerations from death row

Salon

DeSantis roasted by FL Republicans

DeSantis' former — and current — GOP peers deliver a bruising week

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Friday Night Notes: Charles Lester III’s top 4, Colorado’s flip targets and more

The latest example is the interest in Riverview (Fla.) five-star cornerback Charles Lester III.

Miami Herald

UM faculty joins FIU in fight against DeSantis-backed bills to overhaul higher ed

MIAMI — Nearly 1,000 faculty, staff and students at the University of Miami have signed an open letter opposing a state bill moving through the Florida Legislature that they say is an “unprecedented attempt to exert political control over free thought and professional expertise in higher education.”

The Guardian - US

Florida prosecutor sorry for racist memo that singled out Hispanic residents

Document that advocated more severe punishments for Hispanic defendants ‘not the policy of this office’, Jack Campbell says

The Independent UK

Man wanted in NC shooting waives extradition from Florida

A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents waived extradition during a brief hearing in a Florida courtroom

The Guardian - US

Colbert on SpaceX rocket launch: ‘compensating for Elon Musk’s penis’

Late-night hosts discussed the ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’ of Musk’s rocket and DeSantis’s war on woke

The Independent UK

Watch: Ron DeSantis speaks after Florida passes bill allowing trans children to be removed from parents

Watch as Ron DeSantis delivers a speech at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary leadership conference on Friday, 21 April.

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Florida state legislature approves constitutional amendment to make school board elections partisan

The Florida State Senate gave final approval to House Joint Resolution 31, a constitutional amendment to make school board elections partisan.

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