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Feud between McConnell and Scott boils as Biden applies heat

WASHINGTON — The feud between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Florida Sen. Rick Scott isn’t exactly new, but it boiled hotter this week as President Joe Biden amplified his use of Scott as a campaign-style foil.

Tribune News Service

A librarian’s frontline view of Florida’s ‘vetting’ process for school books, and the titles being banned

A vetting process to comply with Florida guidelines to school books has caused chaos for students and teachers, writes Richard Hall

The Independent UK

Florida doctors' board tightens ban on gender-affirming care

A prohibition against puberty blocking hormones and gender-affirming surgeries for minors in Florida was tightened further after a board overseeing doctors eliminated an exception for research at the request of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration

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Florida Legislature turns Disney's Reedy Creek reins over to DeSantis

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Legislature wrapped up a special session Friday passing bills to allow Gov. Ron DeSantis to take over Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District and fix previous actions that have led to lawsuits and charges being dismissed against people accused of voter fraud.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida school district pulls book on Roberto Clemente over passage that he faced racism

The pulling of "Roberto Clemente: The Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates" is part of a larger purge of books happening nationally.

Axios

Antique Jaguars, Land Rovers roar back to life in Florida workshop

KISSIMMEE, Florida – Staring down an empty dead-end street, I press the gas to the floor. The Tesla engine makes an otherworldly hum, even more uncanny coming out of an antique British farm vehicle.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida passes bill backing DeSantis push to relocate migrants

Republican lawmakers create $10m programme to fund governor’s push, which critics say treats people as ‘chess pieces’.

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Florida GOP gives DeSantis control of Disney district

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will soon take control of Walt Disney World’s self-governing district

The Independent UK

Legislature votes to give DeSantis authority to relocate migrants anywhere in the US

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Republicans in the Legislature on Friday gave final approval to the expansion of a secretive immigration program that will authorize Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to relocate migrants anywhere in the country in whichever way it “sees fit.”

Miami Herald

After Martha's Vineyard, lawmakers give DeSantis $10 million more to move migrants

As Florida dedicates more money to transport migrants from other states, advocates say there isn't enough oversight to make sure transport is done legally and that migrants are relocated voluntarily.

WEKU

McConnell rips Scott plan: "Bad idea"

"It’s clearly the Rick Scott plan. It is not the Republican plan," McConnell said

Salon

Sources: Florida NIL Amendment to Give Schools More Power

The state is following others who have changed or repealed their NIL laws.

Sports Illustrated

Anna Paulina Luna is "new George Santos"

Relatives dispute newly-elected Florida congresswoman's claims about her father and her family background

Salon

Feud between McConnell and Scott boils as Biden applies heat - Roll Call

A feud between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Florida Sen. Rick Scott boiled hotter this week.

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Daily Mirror

Twin sisters defy one-in-700 million odds to celebrate 99th birthday together

Sisters Era Luckie Daniell and Vera Rozier, from Florida, America, celebrated their 99th birthdays on Wednesday - saying they 'feel the same as they did when they were younger'

Tribune News Service

They sold the land under their Pinellas County mobile homes. Now they regret it

Nancy DeCamp can no longer bear to enter the home on lot 257.

Sports Illustrated

Decision Time Coming for SEC on New Football Schedule Format

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

Tribune News Service

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.

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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

Al Jazeera

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.

Tribune News Service

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…

The Independent UK

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

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

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