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School representatives confirmed to the Associated Press that the University of South Florida, Florida Atlantic University and the University of Florida are seeking to deputize their campus police for immigration enforcement.
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The firing comes amid heightened U.S.–China tensions and growing scrutiny of Chinese nationals in American academic institutions.
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Marcy Rheintgen's arrest is the first the ACLU is aware of in any state with a ban on using bathrooms inconsistent with assigned birth gender. She said her act of civil disobedience was fueled by anger.
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The Republican-controlled chamber passed two bills along party lines to carry out President Donald Trump’s directive to rename what has been known as the Gulf of Mexico for centuries.
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Vince has been identifying as male for years, and all his official documentation was updated to reflect that — until the DHSMV rescinded his driver's license in March and changed the sex marker to female.
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The state already requires K-12 students to be trained in the dynamics of human trafficking, but not teachers and other school personnel — yet
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Protesters were at the Capitol just hours before the bill passed.
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The legislation would no longer require high school students to pass Algebra 1 and the Grade 10 English Language Arts Assessments to earn a high school diploma.
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The city is obligated to make repairs. Once the roof is back, more damage must be addressed, but the work is expected to be done in time for the Rays to return to their longtime home next season.
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Florida's attorney general, James Uthmeier, said he disagrees with a federal appeals court's recent decision upholding the age restriction, passed in the wake of a 19-year-old gunman killing 17 people at a Parkland high school in 2018.
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The bill allows immigrants in the city without legal status to be jailed up to 60 days. Mayor Donna Deegan said she objected to the ordinance but did not “see a clear path to a veto, to sustaining a veto.”
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The recent controversy and confusion over immigration enforcement training for Fort Myers police may cost the longtime city attorney Grant Alley his job.
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Under the legislation, school district committees reviewing a challenged book wouldn’t be able to consider literary or artistic merit when deciding to remove it.
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Calling it "a bad deal which makes no sense," signatories include campus board members as well as donors and former leaders of the school.