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Florida’s CONNECT unemployment benefits system failed to connect to much of anything in the early days of the pandemic, leaving millions of recently laid-off Floridians in the cold. The company that built it, Deloitte, has worked to distance itself from the system and is a defendant in a lawsuit against the state.
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Coronavirus test sites have popped up throughout South Florida as the number of cases continues to climb.
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Discussing COVID-19 vaccine questions, proposals to increase wages for farmworkers and a sustainable local fashion business.
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The Des Moines Register reporter, Andrea Sahouri, was arrested as she covered a Black Lives Matter protest. "Treating media work as a crime is a human rights violation," Amnesty International said.
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But within the slender, 30-mile long Mosquito Lagoon in Brevard and Volusia counties, mangroves are asserting dominance. Scientists think that mangroves have an ally in the rising level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is trapping more of the sun’s heat and rapidly warming the planet.
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Just hours after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office released the draft report Thursday by Chief Inspector General Melinda Miguel, attorneys for the plaintiffs filed a copy of the report in their lawsuit against the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity and Deloitte Consulting, a contractor that helped put in place the state’s CONNECT online unemployment system in 2013.
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A pool of potential jurors were in the court building, waiting to start the selection process. But they're being sent home for the day.
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New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can gather indoors in some circumstances but should keep wearing masks in public.
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A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 2 million globally.
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View NPR's maps and graphics to see where COVID-19 is hitting hardest in the U.S., which state outbreaks are growing and which are leveling off.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling for bipartisan support for the upcoming House vote on the Senate-amended legislation. Such support is unlikely, as Republicans are fiercely opposed to the package.
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry talked to Oprah Winfrey about darkest moments, family conflicts, the persistence of racism and the symbiosis between the royal family and the tabloid press.
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Domenic Esposito/A look at the minimum wage and medical marijuana in the Legislative Session. Plus, a new book on Miami's connection to the illegal gold trade. How LGBTQ students are finding connection in quarantine and a new sculpture exhibition in West Palm Beach exploring mental health.
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Carl Juste/Miami HeraldMiami Beach prepares for another pandemic Spring Break. You may be paying a lot less for your flood insurance than you should be. And we hear from one of the photographers who was at Muhammad Ali’s final fight.
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