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Florida couple unable to get abortion will see baby die after delivery

Doctors’ interpretation of state law prevents procedure, family tells Washington Post, despite baby’s fatal illness

The Guardian - US

Sheriff: Gunman fatally shot, 2 wounded near barn fire

A Florida sheriff’s deputy fatally shot an armed man who had wounded two people and set a barn on fire before barricading himself inside a house

The Independent UK

Nikki Haley says Ron DeSantis didn’t go ‘far enough’ with Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

Haley told the crowd at a town hall in New Hampshire that conversations about gender should be banned in elementary schools altogether

The Independent UK

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British teenagers have VIP access to Florida satellite launch

The pair were at the Kennedy Space Centre on as the Inmarsat I-6 F2 satellite launched successfully into orbit.

The Independent UK

Florida teacher fired over viral video Ron DeSantis branded ‘fake narrative’

Teachers and librarians have shared images of empty bookshelves following a directive from Duval County Public Schools

The Independent UK

How Florida’s Republican supermajority handed Ron DeSantis unfettered power

The governor – expected to mount a 2024 White House bid – is ramping up an extremist crusade

The Guardian - US

Floridians held in Haiti assassination say they did not know plot had morphed into a murder

MIAMI — Two of the Florida men who were charged this week in connection with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel MoIse will be spending more time behind bars after a federal magistrate judge decided she didn’t feel it was safe to let them loose on bond.

Miami Herald

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Florida Gov. DeSantis now a factor in Chicago’s mayoral race

The GOP governor will be headlining an event for police in Elmhurst on Monday. Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas distanced himself from the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, which endorsed him, after it promoted the event.

Chicago Sun-Times

Orlando FreeFall operator to pay $250,000 fine to state of Florida following death of 14-year-old on ride

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando Eagle Drop Slingshot, the company operating the drop tower at ICON Park where 14-year-old Tyre Sampson was killed, settled with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services by agreeing to close down the ride and pay a $250,000 fine, according to documents released Friday evening.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida Sen. Rick Scott backtracks on GOP plan to sunset Social Security that Biden blasted at State of the Union speech

Republican Sen. Rick Scott Friday backtracked on his plan to sunset Social Security and Medicare that President Joe Biden called out during his fiery State of the Union speech.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis 2024 bid takes shape as he enlists aides, woos donors

WASHINGTON — Ron DeSantis’s 2024 campaign team is quickly taking shape with the Florida governor lining up trusted aides to helm an expected presidential bid, according to people familiar with his plans.

Tribune News Service

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Florida education officials discuss SAT alternative focused on ‘Western tradition’

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Florida education officials discuss SAT alternative focused on ‘Western tradition’

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republican leaders explore alternatives to the College Board’s AP classes and tests, top state officials have been meeting with the founder of an education testing company supporters say is focused on the “great classical and Christian tradition.”

Miami Herald

State officials in Georgia call for nurses to surrender licenses in diploma scam

ATLANTA — A federal investigation into three Florida-based nursing schools that allegedly sold fake nursing degrees has begun to have repercussions, as Georgia state officials asked almost two dozen nurses to surrender their licenses.

Tribune News Service

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Daily Mirror

Dad says he has the body of a 22-year-old by swerving one type of food for THREE decades

Derik Fay from Florida has been lifting weights in the gym since he was a teenager and has eaten a disciplined diet of protein shakes while dodging desserts ever since

Daily Record

'Kind' schoolboy dies from flesh-eating bacteria after 'twisting ankle on treadmill'

The 11-year-old from Florida, US was an active youngster but his health quickly went downhill after he suffered an ankle injury.

The Independent UK

Sen. Rick Scott alters policy plan causing heartburn for GOP

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has amended a plan to overhaul how the federal government works after Democrats repeatedly seized on it to accuse Republicans of looking to cut Medicare and Social Security

Salon

Scott quietly edits plan to end Medicare

The Florida Republican changed his plan to exclude the programs after backlash from Democrats and his own party

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Friday Night Notes: Double WR intrigue, Oklahoma State stocks up on starpower, plus more

Jeremiah Smith's upcoming visits, another potential Colorado flip and more.

Tribune News Service

Florida surgeon general, again questioning COVID vaccines, sends letter to CDC, FDA

Florida’s top health official sent a letter this week to the heads of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines could be dangerous.

The Guardian - US

Nikki Haley says Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ law does not go ‘far enough’

Republican presidential candidate makes comments in New Hampshire on controversial law signed by governor Ron DeSantis

Daily Mirror

Inside abandoned $2million prison with unbreakable walls - until inmates escaped

A prison in Florida, US, which opened in April 1978, has been left abandoned after violent inmates planned multiple escapes in the 46 capacity jail that had just 13 staff

The Guardian - US

US officials say all debris from suspected Chinese spy balloon has been collected – as it happened

Pieces collected off ocean floor after US fighter jet shot down balloon off South Carolina’s coast and will now go to FBI lab for analysis

USA Today Sports Media Group

Vikings 2023 NFL draft scouting report: Florida QB Anthony Richardson

The Gators quarterback has been a highly debated prospect. Are the traits enough to make him a top prospect?

Chicago Sun-Times

How a Cook County sheriff’s detective apparently solved the nearly 100-year-old mystery of a missing Chicago girl

The detective’s work has convinced two families that Mary Agnes Moroney — kidnapped from her home in Chicago in 1930 — was raised as Jeanette Burchard and became a nurse in Florida. She died 20 years ago.

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