FEATURED NEWS
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Government agencies across the state stopped deducting union dues directly from paychecks when a new law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis' went into effect last year. But MDC's president told WLRN the school's union contracts require it — a tension that experts say remains an 'open question.'
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COMMENTARY By equating Israel's admittedly brutal counter-offensive in Gaza with genuine genocide like Guatemala's, protesters risk rendering genocide itself less meaningful.
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- House passes bill aimed to combat antisemitism amid college unrest
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FLORIDA NEWS
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In segregation days, the Ace Theater in Coconut Grove was the black community’s showplace for movies and entertainment events. The historic venue served that role from the 1930s into the 1950s and until its closure.
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Florida's ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant, went into effect Wednesday, and some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care.
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials hope they are seeing decreased incidents of what are described as “erratically spinning fish” and smalltooth sawfish deaths in the Florida Keys.
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