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Ron DeSantis Signs Florida Law Setting Lowest Threshold for Death Penalty Sentences in the Country

Florida will now only require an 8–4 majority for a jury to recommend a death sentence. Alabama is the only other state that allows split juries to recommend death sentences.

Reason

Florida eases path for death penalty after Parkland verdict

A Florida bill ending the unanimous jury requirement in death penalty sentencing is now law after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it in a private ceremony Thursday

The Independent UK

What the Retirement Community Property Market is Like

A look at the retirement community property market for investing in a 55+ community.

Kiplinger

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Outrage as Florida Republicans pass ‘fascist’ bill to remove trans kids from parents’ custody

‘These bills directly threaten transgender Floridians’ fundamental human rights and safety,’ an ACLU official says

The Independent UK

Evil dad murdered seven-week-old baby daughter by repeatedly throwing her against a wall

Steven Michael Strahm, from Florida, pretended he had accidentally dropped his baby daughter Scarlet while investigators determined he'd repeatedly thrown her into a wall

Daily Mirror

DeSantis’ tour hits South Carolina: Here’s what GOP voters thought

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — As she queued up for a Gov. Ron DeSantis speech at a Baptist church in this town of 40,000, Alice Convertino sized up a few Republican contenders for the presidency.

Tribune News Service

Early morning alert test rouses Floridians, raises questions and tempers

TAMPA, Fla. — An early morning test of Florida’s emergency alert system that roused people from sleep on Thursday — and raised questions and tempers — wasn’t supposed to go to phones, state officials said.

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DeSantis touts Florida in 1st public 2024 message to SC GOP voters

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — In Ron DeSantis’ first public 2024 test in front of South Carolina Republican voters, the Florida governor on Wednesday spent most of his remarks touting his own state and its response, or blueprint, to combat what he called “toxic ideologies.”

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Orange Juice - A Record High for the Thinly Traded Soft Commodity

The soft commodities sector includes sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton, and frozen concentrated orange juice. The agricultural products can be highly volatile, but frozen concentrated orange juice futures tend to experience the highest price variance level as they suffer from the lowest liquidity.

Barchart

DeSantis v Disney feud escalates as Republicans advance takeover plan

New board of directors hand-picked by Florida governor propose low-income housing next to park and increase in taxes

The Guardian - US

Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law: Teaching ban extended to all public schools

On Wednesday, the Florida Board of Education banned the teaching of gender identity and sexuality throughout all grades in public schools, expanding a nearly year-old legislative ban on such lessons for younger children. The rule change is championed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who once said that "Florida is where…

France 24

FCOJ- A Record High for the Thinly Traded Soft Commodity

The soft commodities sector includes sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton, and frozen concentrated orange juice. The agricultural products can be highly volatile, but FCOJ futures tend to experience the highest price variance level as they suffer from the lowest liquidity.

Barchart

Cities shrink but immigrants help stem population losses

Continuing a pandemic trend, Americans are moving to the South and Southwest and from cities to the suburbs in search of more space and homes they can afford, recent government data indicates.

Tribune News Service

Think development doesn’t make flooding worse? Think again

It was the rainstorm that seemed to never end, turning roads into rivers and forcing drivers to abandon their cars in search of higher ground all over Broward County, Florida.

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Daily Mirror

Inside eery child prison abandoned for 20 years where kids as young as 12 were jailed

Images reveal the crumbling detention centre with grass growing on mattresses in the cells and debris all over the floor in the common room where a clock is frozen at 9.45 in Florida, US

Tribune News Service

Rich GOP donors want a Trump alternative. DeSantis has them worried

Former President Donald Trump’s surge in the polls after his indictment has sidelined some major Republican donors, who are losing confidence that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis or any other GOP hopeful will displace the former president as the party’s leader.

The Orange County Register

Disneyland will hold first official gay pride events in June

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Disneyland announced that it will hold its first officially sanctioned Pride Nite as an after-hours ticketed event.

The Week

Ana Obregón: the surrogacy story that has outraged Spain

It’s the story that has captivated a nation, said Celia Vasco in Público (Madrid). Ana Obregón, one of Spain’s biggest TV stars of the 1990s and 2000s, has been a fixture of the tabloid press for decades. But when Hola! Magazine published photographs of the 68-year-old leaving a Florida hospital…

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Beth Kowitt: Disney embraces its role as hero to DeSantis’s villain

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s war against Walt Disney Co. reached parody level on Monday when he floated his latest threat: building a prison next to its theme park complex in the state.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: First Disney, now beer. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ woke wars are ever more ridiculous

Not content with going after Disney, Gov. Ron DeSantis has fired up the grudge machine yet again.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis Black empowerment activists charged with role in Russian propaganda scheme

ST. LOUIS — A federal indictment claims three activists behind a St. Louis Black empowerment group took part in a yearslong Russian "agitation and propaganda" campaign to sow dissent in the United States.

Miami Herald

DeSantis-backed bill restricting non-resident Chinese land buys called ‘discriminatory’

A priority bill of Gov. Ron DeSantis was called discriminatory by dozens of Chinese Americans on Wednesday, with some drawing comparisons to a Nazi-era law requiring Jews to register their property with the state.

Ballotpedia

Florida Supreme Court issues three opinions from April 10-16

The Florida Supreme Court issued three opinions from April 10-16. As of April 16, the court issued 28 opinions in 2023 —14 fewer than this point a year ago. The three opinions are below:

Orlando Sentinel

Florida expands so-called ‘don’t say gay’ ban through 12th grade in public schools

All of Florida’s public school teachers are effectively banned from providing classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity, the State Board of Education decided Wednesday.

Woman & Home

Florida Man ending explained - and is the Netflix crime drama based on a true story?

*That* Florida Man ending explained, because seriously, what on earth happened?

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