The National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, 988, launched as a three-digit hotline across the country almost one year ago. Data shows many states are falling behind in answering calls, with about 25% going unanswered in Florida in recent months.....MORE
A multi-city protest is rolling through Florida this week, urging voters to “stay woke” in the face of new laws signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
A bus adorned with a bold-faced “vote” and the face of late civil rights icon John Lewis rolled through East Tampa Tuesday night, one of 15 stops the NAACP and Transformative Justice Coalition’s “Stay Woke, Vote” protest on wheels will make this week.
Hillsborough County School Board members voted 4-3 to pass new school boundary lines for the 2024-2025 school year. It's a move that the school district hopes will save millions of dollars.....MORE
A Florida judge has set an initial Aug. 14 trial date for former President Trump in the Justice Department’s case over his retention of classified documents.....MORE
Tropical Storm Bret is expected to become a hurricane later this week, and a second wave in the Atlantic now has an 80% chance of developing into a tropical system, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Donald Trump is known for listening to lawyers and advisers who tell him what he wants to hear rather than those who understand what is permitted under the law. That paradigm – bad legal advice that plays to Trump’s combative instincts – may have contributed to his indictment for violating the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice.....MORE
Tropical Storm Bret formed in the central Atlantic Ocean on Monday, with forecasters saying it could pose a hurricane threat to the eastern Caribbean by Thursday and the Dominican Republic and Haiti by the weekend.....MORE
Gov. Ron DeSantis may have the support of most sitting state lawmakers. But are Republicans already out of office smearing the Governor to the national press?
One unnamed former legislator accused DeSantis of vindictiveness to The Washington Post.
More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some states moved swiftly to halt health care coverage following the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
The includes in Florida, where hundreds of thousands have been dropped.
Consumption of “magic” mushrooms and other hallucinogens by young adults nearly doubled over the past three years, a new study has found, illustrating the accelerating pace of America’s “psychedelic revolution” and growing societal acceptance of mind-altering drugs.....MORE