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Florida brings a restrictive abortion bill to a legislative committee — its modeled after the new Texas law. Plus, an art exhibition re-imagining the story of "Alice in Wonderland." And SunFest returns to Palm Beach County next year.

The city still has about $600,000 available to help renters pay back their landlords.

Joseph Ladapo is Florida's new surgeon general, an outspoken critic of mask mandates and lockdowns. Plus, inequities in Florida's vaccine distribution and a local organization assisting with Afghan refugee resettlement.

COMMENTARY Many Democrats feel it's unfair to hold a Democratic administration culpable for this month's Haitian migrant crisis at the border. No, actually it's not.

New guidelines signed by the state's surgeon general modified the state's ban against school mask mandates, prompting a judge to dismiss a lawsuit against the old rule that had been filed.

ADVANCE (Assessing Donor Variability And New Concepts in Eligibility) is a new paid study aiming to determine whether blood centers could screen all people equally, if the FDA would agree to scrap restrictions on gay and bi men, once it analyzes the data.

The 40-page proposal (HB 167), dubbed the “Florida Heartbeat Act,” would require doctors to test for fetal heartbeats, which can occur six weeks into pregnancy. If heartbeats are detected, doctors “may not knowingly perform or induce an abortion” on pregnant women, under the proposal.

Pointing to a need to “minimize the amount of time students are removed from in-person learning,” the Florida Department of Health on Wednesday issued a revised rule that gives parents more authority to decide whether children go to school after being exposed to people who have COVID-19.

"Americans and the Holocaust" will be on display in Delray Beach, as part of a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, starting Oct. 6 through November 17. The library is also putting on free community events, as long as you wear your mask.

Thousands of migrants are at the U.S.-Mexico border are seeking refuge. A new study to remove the restrictions on gay and bisexual men donating blood. And a former military and law enforcement family in the medical marijuana industry.

Physician and researcher Joseph Ladapo was named Florida surgeon general Tuesday, calling for being “done with fear” amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 51,000 of the state’s residents.

Florida Department of Health attorneys went to the 1st District Court of Appeal on Monday after an administrative law judge refused to dismiss the challenges filed by the school boards in Broward, Alachua, Orange, Miami-Dade and Leon counties and Leon County Superintendent Rocky Hanna.