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In 2023, the Transportation Security Administration reported seizing 6,737 firearms at airport checkpoints, the most in the agency’s 23-year history.
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Organizations that collect data on mass shootings each use their own definitions for them — some of which are broad such as incidents in which at least four people are injured or killed. Other databases use a narrower definition that includes at least four deaths.
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The Senate immigration bill would have hired thousands of asylum officers and expanded their powers, but asylum officers are already employed to decide asylum cases.
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Miami-Dade County school officials are facing backlash over its so-called permission slip policy. But teaching African American history is required by state statute and Miami-Dade schools comply with that throughout the year, the district’s chief academic officer said.
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The state of Florida is preventing transgender people from changing the "M" or "F" on an existing license. But it’s unclear how this change would affect new license applications or license-holders who have already changed their licenses to reflect their gender identities.
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The special counsel, Robert Hur, found that President Joe Biden mishandled classified documents but didn’t pursue criminal charges, saying the evidence did not establish Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and that Biden would be sympathetic to a jury.
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Crime data in the United States is notoriously incomplete, but experts agreed that general trends from state and FBI data show people ages 18 to 20 — and in many datasets people in their early-to-mid 20s — are likelier to commit deadly shootings than other age groups.
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Harris’ statistic is close even when counting just the populations of states with abortion bans at six weeks or less. When adding in states that ban abortion after 12 or 15 weeks of pregnancy, the number of affected women grows to about 40%.
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DeSantis is presenting an alternative method of proposing U.S. Constitutional amendments that would let states call a convention if enough of them ask Congress.
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A Florida agency recently reported that, by two separate measures of employee counts, the state had the fewest state government employees per capita of the 50 states — a trend predating DeSantis' governship.
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Experts say there is no hard evidence that infection is greater in people who have had boosters.
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Miami police said there were no aliens at Bayside Marketplace when dozens of officers were called to the area Jan. 1.