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Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion of a 2020 decision protecting LGBTQ employees from workplace discrimination that the landmark ruling does not apply to school policies on transgender youths' use of bathrooms and locker rooms. Nonetheless, lower courts have ruled in... https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/courts-rule-in-favor-of-transgender-students-citing-supreme-courts-lgbtq-discrimination-ruling
Category 6 hurricanes do not exist and meteorologists wouldn’t be tracking a storm expected to hit in early September, as viral TikTok videos claim. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/videos-falsely-claim-category-6-hurricane-is-headed-for-florida-carolinas-in-september
A coalition of booksellers, authors and a think tank wants the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Amazon over its alleged monopoly of the bookselling industry. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/booksellers-call-for-ftc-to-probe-amazon
Moon jellyfish te****le stings feel like a hundred electrical zaps. How long will this seasonal invasion last? https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/florida-jellyfish-invasion-how-long-will-moon-jellies-keep-surfers-swimmers-from-ocean
People of the past brought their creepy A-game to Halloween. From looking at these nightmare-inducing photos, one thing's certain: our ancestors were obsessed with huge heads, pillowcases, and general creepiness. https://ourcommunitynow.com/local-culture/vintage-halloween-costumes-that-will-haunt-you-forever
Hawaii officials urged tourists to avoid traveling to Maui as many hotels prepared to house evacuees and first responders on the island that faces a long recovery from the wildfire that demolished a historic town and killed more than 90 people. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/tourists-are-urged-to-avoid-maui-as-hotels-prepare-to-take-in-evacuees-and-first-responders
Jim speaks with Democratic State Sen. Shevrin Jones about the controversial new standards for teaching African American history in Florida schools. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/facing-south-florida-for-aug-13-african-american-history-in-schools
A new pack of gray wolves has been confirmed at a site in Sequoia National Forest, California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials announced on Friday. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/california-wildlife-officials-say-new-gray-wolf-pack-found-in-sequoia-national-forest
Steube is a conservative Republican from Sarasota and staunch Trump ally. He is the second House member to file impeachment articles against Biden. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/florida-congressman-files-articles-of-impeachment-against-joe-biden
Texas has now bussed more than 30,000 illegal immigrants from its state to sanctuary cities across the country, Gov. Greg Abbott announced, taking a victory lap on what has been the most effective GOP public relations effort against President Biden's border policies. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/texas-ships-30000th-migrant-to-blue-state-sanctuary-cities
Things were humming along just fine in Florida schools until the governor began scoring political points pandering to his base. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/im-a-veteran-florida-teacher-and-heres-what-i-think-of-gov-desantis-lesson-plans-column
A Wisconsin judge on Thursday allowed a civil lawsuit filed against 10 fake electors for former President Donald Trump and two of his attorneys to proceed, rejecting a move to dismiss the case. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/wisconsin-judge-allows-civil-case-against-fake-trump-electors-to-proceed
Two aides to Donald Trump who are employees at his Mar-a-Lago estate return to federal court Thursday to enter pleas as co-defendants in the U.S. government’s classified documents case https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/two-trump-aides-face-arraignments-in-florida-on-new-charges-in-classified-documents-case
The Department of the Interior’s proposed program for drilling included 11 potential lease sales with 10 in the Gulf of Mexico. This goes against Joe Biden’s commitment to drilling on https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/president-bidens-next-climate-litmus-test-for-florida-commentary
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency Tuesday, citing an influx of migrants seeking shelter at a time when the cost of housing - already in short supply - continues to rise. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/massachusetts-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-amid-influx-of-migrants-seeking-shelter
Florida police arrested two suspects on charges of commercial s*x trafficking after a hotel clerk alerted authorities to the abnormal demeanor of two victims. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/florida-s*x-traffickers-busted-thanks-to-vigilant-hotel-worker-police
Advocates for limiting mining around Grand Canyon National Park expressed hope Monday that a new national monument would preserve the land for future generations. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/tribes-hope-bidens-arizona-visit-means-long-sought-grand-canyon-monument-designation
In a Sunday interview with NBC News, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stood by a new provision in the state’s education guidelines that implied freed African-Americans benefitted from chattel slavery, claiming it would teach students that enslaved people “eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life.” https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/ron-desantis-defends-floridas-new-guidelines-suggesting-slavery-benefited-black-people
Asian-American families are frequent targets for home invasion robberies in the Bay Area, according to a report. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/thieves-target-bay-areas-asian-american-families-during-string-of-break-ins-report
A Colombian judge on Friday night ordered President Gustavo Petro's son freed from detention while he is investigated on allegations of illicit enrichment and money laundering. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/son-of-colombias-president-freed-while-he-is-investigated-for-illicit-enrichment-money-laundering
Florida State University has been looking for opportunities to join other conferences and exit the Atlantic Coast Conference division of the NCAA. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/florida-state-university-taps-jpmorgan-to-help-find-potential-investors
If that basic material is censored, the group said, Florida schools may not label their psych courses as AP or Advanced Placement, “and the ‘AP Psychology’ designation cannot be utilized on student transcripts.” Some school districts are turning to the Cambridge AICE psychology course as an alternative. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/florida-students-lose-another-advanced-placement-option
Florida bans AP psychology, College Board says, because of lessons on gender identity and s*xual orientation, which violate state rules. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/florida-bans-ap-psychology-over-gender-identity-s*xual-orientation-lessons-college-board-says
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden enjoyed the movie "Oppenheimer" at a public viewing in Delaware while Washington assessed the fallout from the newest indictment to hit former President Donald Trump. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/bidens-enjoy-oppenheimer-while-special-counsel-files-indictment-on-trump
Five years after an off-duty firefighter found a baby's body floating near the Boynton Inlet, prosecutors convicted the mother who left her there. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/a-dead-baby-was-found-off-the-coast-of-south-florida-in-2018-dna-helped-convict-her-mother
And FSU Director of Athletics Michael Alford, on the lead horse, yelled ‘Charge” at last February’s BOT meeting when he said “Something has to change” in regards to conference revenue sharing and the Seminoles’ future in the ACC. That’s the issue. FSU doesn’t have a future in the ACC under the league's house rules. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/can-florida-state-afford-to-wait-much-longer-in-whirlwind-conference-realignment-race
An employee of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Carlos De Oliveira, is expected to make his first court appearance Monday on charges accusing him of scheming with the former president to hide security footage from investigators probing Trump's hoarding of classified documents. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/mar-a-lago-worker-charged-in-trumps-classified-documents-case-to-make-first-court-appearance
Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd, a Republican presidential contender, on Sunday slammed his opponent Gov. Ron DeSantis for defending Florida’s new public school standards that teach that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/gop-candidate-will-hurd-slams-ron-desantis-defense-of-floridas-slavery-curriculum
A three-foot-long alligator that went missing from the Indiana Wild animal sanctuary three weeks ago was recovered after being spotted in a nearby neighborhood retention pond, the nonprofit announced Thursday. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/indiana-animal-sanctuarys-missing-alligator-recovered-in-neighborhood-retention-pond
Most of the members taking part in the working group developing new standards for teaching African American history in Florida reportedly didn’t agree to the parts of the controversial measure which has drawn strong rebukes. https://ourcommunitynow.com/news/most-of-florida-work-group-behind-controversial-new-guidelines-on-african-american-history-did-not-agree-report-says
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