Trump’s executive order that would limit eligibility to five years, allow one transfer without penalty for undergraduates, stop pay-for-play schemes and build in protections for women’s and Olympic sports. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his call for Congress to pass legislation that would rein in college sports at a time athletes […]
WLRN Public Media | By Tom Hudson Amazon is closing its Homestead warehouse in July, costing more than 600 jobs. The company filed a notice with the state, noting 616 positions will be affected when the facility closes July 2. An Amazon spokesperson told the South Florida Business Journal more than 300 Homestead workers have accepted transfers to
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WLRN Public Media | By Carlton Gillespie Tuesday’s resignation of Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick leaves hundreds of thousands of South Floridians in parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties without a representative in Congress. And the 20th congressional district seat may remain empty for some time — or at least until next year when a new lawmaker
By Natalie La Roche Pietri WLRN Public Media A sea of district employees flooded a Broward County School Board workshop to plead to board members to reconsider 800 job cuts on the line. The board met on Tuesday to discuss the implementation of the drastic reduction in staff, first proposed last week, as it seeks to deal
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By Chris Perkins | chperkins@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel Here’s what Miami Dolphins general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan and coach Jeff Hafley need to acquire in the NFL draft — players with the right attitude, guys who have a winning mindset. Yes, they desperately need talent. But they also need the right type of player. Sullivan and Hafley should be
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WUSF | By Douglas Soule Florida lawmakers are headed back for a special session next week. On the agenda: redistricting, AI regulations and vaccine exemptions. Missing: property tax cuts — something Gov. Ron DeSantis and lawmakers have talked endlessly about. Gov. Ron DeSantis has called a special session for next week, wanting lawmakers to consider redistricting, artificial
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By Carson Hartzog, The Minnesota Star Tribune The Tribune Content Agency More grocery shoppers are picking a side: trading down to bargain chains or trading up to higher-end grocers, leaving middle-market retailers like Target with less room to compete. In Minnesota’s Twin Cities and across the country, the industry’s growth continues to concentrate at opposite ends of
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By Derrick Lane The term “4/20” started as the police code for Marijuana Smoking in Progress. After locals heard of the police call, they started using the expression 420 when referring to herb. Then the actual date, April 20th, became the day many celebrate all things marijuana. Cannabinoids are active chemical compounds found naturally in
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By Tarshua Carter Williamson Veteran actress Jo Marie Payton—best known for her role as Harriette Winslow on Family Matters—recently revealed a frightening health scare that left fans concerned and rallying around her. At 75, the beloved TV matriarch shared that she experienced a serious medical emergency earlier this year that temporarily took away her ability to
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By Jacqueline Charles and Jay Weaver Days before Jovenel Moïse was gunned down inside his house, the co-owner of a Doral-based security firm seeking regime change in Haiti in order to obtain contracts from the Haitian president’s successor issued three orders to a squad of Colombians tasked with storming the residence in the hills above Port-au-Prince. From Miami,
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