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Decision Time Coming for SEC on New Football Schedule Format

With Texas and Oklahoma joining, here’s what it could look like.

Sports Illustrated

Florida claims about AP African American studies are false, College Board says

TAMPA, Fla. — The College Board is not backing down in its defense of its new AP African American studies course, even as the state of Florida continues to ask questions about its value.

Tribune News Service

Joe Biden attacks Republican ‘dream’ to slash Medicare and social security

President makes comments in Florida speech, vowing to safeguard programs ahead of anticipated 2024 re-election campaign

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Biden promises to defend social programmes in Florida speech

US president has accused Republican Party members of threatening to cut programmes like Medicare and Social Security.

Al Jazeera

President Joe Biden visits Tampa to talk health care as 2024 race looms

TAMPA — President Joe Biden took Air Force One to Tampa on Thursday to tout the accomplishments of his administration so far, and to try to convince Floridians that he is the leader who will help reduce health care costs in the state with the highest percentage of seniors in…

Tribune News Service

This Parkland dad has a history of interrupting Biden. But he found the GOP’s behaviour at SOTU ‘offensive’

Manuel Oliver lost his son, 17-year-old Joaquin ‘Guac’ Oliver, in the February 2018 school shooting in Florida. He tells Sheila Flynn what it was like attending his second State of the Union address

The Independent UK

Family: Suspect in power grid plot embraced racist ideology

Relatives of a Maryland woman who allegedly conspired with a Florida-based neo-Nazi leader to plan a crippling attack on Baltimore's power grid say she has a long history of white supremacist beliefs

The Independent UK

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Pfizer, George Soros and Robert Mueller: GOP’s ‘weaponisation’ hearing goes after an array of conservative boogeymen

A committee hearing held as payback for probes into Donald Trump quickly devolved

The Independent UK

Group asks how African American course violates Florida law

The organization that created a high school African American studies program rejected by Florida says it’s still waiting for specifics from the state about how the course violates state law

The Independent UK

Sports board removes menstrual questions for Florida athletes after scathing criticism

MIAMI — The Florida High School Athletic Association on Thursday walked back a controversial proposal to require female high school athletes to disclose information regarding their menstrual history, following scathing criticism from students, parents, physicians, advocacy organizations and some lawmakers.

Miami Herald

Five years after Parkland, school shootings haven't stopped, and kill more people

In the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting on Valentine’s Day 2018, many Americans hoped that, finally, something would be done to address the problem of gun violence in the nation’s schools.

The Conversation

DeSantis nears takeover of Disney government in Florida

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has moved one step closer to taking over Walt Disney World's self-governing district

The Independent UK

Florida high school athletes won't have to report their periods after emergency vote

The Florida High School Athletic Association's board of directors has voted to remove questions about athletes' menstrual history from a required health form for participation in school sports.

WEKU

How judges in Florida stop teens from having abortions

TAMPA, Fla. — A new report from Human Rights Watch found that Hillsborough County judges denied abortion requests for teens at a higher rate than anywhere else in Florida.

Tribune News Service

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The Independent UK

Mexico: Ex-security chief stole $745 million from contracts

Mexican authorities say former top security official Genaro Garcia Luna embezzled about $745 million from government technology contracts

Miami Herald

About 100 Haitians arrive in the Florida Keys on overloaded boat

MIAMI — An overloaded migrant sailboat with at least 100 people from Haiti on board arrived Thursday morning in the Florida Keys.

Ballotpedia

Trump gains lead in PredictIt’s Republican primary market for first time since November

As of February 6, 2023, PredictIt’s 2024 presidential market shows President Joe Biden (D) leading at $0.34, followed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) at $0.30, and former President Donald Trump (R) at $0.26. No other candidate has more than a $0.10 share price. The share price, which rises and…

Ballotpedia

Florida Supreme Court issues four opinions from Jan. 30-Feb. 5

The Florida Supreme Court issued four opinions from Jan. 30-Feb. 5. As of Feb. 5, the court issued nine opinions in 2023—six fewer than this point a year ago. The four opinions are below:

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Tiger Woods announces latest PopStroke venue in Tampa, Florida, will open later this month

Venue includes two 18-hole putting courses, a full-service restaurant, playground and ice cream parlor.

The Guardian - US

Biden says he’s Republicans’ ‘nightmare’ over social spending cuts – as it happened

President visits Tampa and denounces Republican proposals to cut spending

Tribune News Service

As Ron DeSantis remakes education, many look to the long-term impact it’ll have on Florida

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ multifaceted reshaping of education in Florida is accelerating, with implications that could last for generations.

Tribune News Service

Florida’s struggle to teach Black history has become a battle over who controls the past

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — For 71 years, the survivors of Rosewood controlled their history. They guardedly discussed their stories only at family gatherings, haunted by the threat of retaliation in their rural Central Florida communities.

Reuters

In Florida, Biden aims at seniors with Social Security message

U.S. President Joe Biden traveled on Thursday to Florida and positioned his Democratic party as the sole protector of Social Security and Medicare in an aim to reclaim the state, which has a large population of retirees who rely on the programs.

The Guardian - US

Ron DeSantis’ academic restrictions show he hopes to change history by censoring it

Florida’s Stop Woke Act and ban on African American studies will only deprive students of the right to think and learn

Miami Herald

Fabiola Santiago: Florida parents who push for government intrusion in education are failing their kids

Dear Florida parents destroying education,

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