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An investigation by The Associated Press has found that at least 17 people died in Florida over a decade following physical encounters with police during which medical personnel also injected them with a powerful sedative.
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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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One of the ballot initiatives would enshrine abortion rights in the Constitution and the other would authorize recreational marijuana for people ages 21 and older.
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Israeli survivors of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 visited college campuses in South Florida in April to bring their stories to students and combat antisemitism.
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Since the dawn of human spaceflight more than 60 years ago, around 680 people have been to space. Only about 70 have been American women astronauts.
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The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge spurred recollections of the 1980 Sunshine Skyway disaster. Over 40 years later, search and rescue officials say the two incidents are "eerily similar."
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Haiti is a country in crisis. Freelance photojournalist Octavio Jones, who's worked with WUSF and NPR, was on the ground there earlier this week and documented what he saw.
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International search and rescue nonprofit Project Dynamo launched Operation: Rum Runner last week. It’s a mission to rescue stranded Americans in Haiti.
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The countdown to hurricane season has begun, and Florida emergency management offices are sharing their safety tips to empower residents to act ahead of potential storms.
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Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will spend about six months on the International Space Station - conducting experiments and research. They'll relieve four people of the Crew-7 mission.
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Florida has announced that it will become what is believed to be the first state not to allow drivers to change the gender markers on their driver’s licenses, under any circumstances.
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The National Hurricane Center will add inland predictions to its forecast of the location and ferocity of tropical storms. The center's so-called cone of uncertainty prediction will now also look at areas where wind and flooding are sometimes more treacherous than damage to the coasts.