WLRN WEEKEND: A collection of this week’s feature stories for your weekend reading
FEATURED NEWS
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About 200 job-seekers attended a job fair in Miami this week, where all of the employers were willing to hire people who've been previously incarcerated.
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Whittled from a list of eight locations, the selections by the Florida Museum of Black History Task Force will next undergo an analysis by the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University School of Architecture and Engineering Technology.
- Man who set himself on fire outside Trump trial dies of injuries, police say
- Senate passes reauthorization of key surveillance program despite privacy concerns
- USC cancels filmmaker's keynote amid controversy over canceled valedictorian speech
- Volkswagen workers vote yes to unionizing, igniting UAW's push to organize the South
FLORIDA NEWS
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State officials are touting SB 544 as a plan to save thousands of lives.
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More than 20 million Americans lost Medicaid at some point in the past year. Children have been hit especially hard. Lindsey McNeil and her 7-year-old daughter, who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, were told by the Florida’s Department of Children and Families that Noelle would be losing her Medicaid coverage 10 days later.
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Unhoused people across Florida will no longer be able to sleep on public property beginning in October. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law recently prohibiting the practice. Municipalities will have to enforce or face possible lawsuits.
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