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Spearheaded by the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) and Oxitec, a British biotech firm that’s received backing from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the project aims to turn the first swarms of gene-edited bugs loose into the Keys starting sometime this week, the two bodies announced in a joint …

DeSantis, who has increasingly become one of the Republicans whom Democrats love to hate most as a rising star in 2024 presidential polls, proved his knack for ruffling feathers this time during a visit to a new market in Delray Beach on Saturday. The governor chomped aggressively on a piece …

The UFC’s first fight card to take place in front of a capacity crowd in more than a year was worth the wait. From title changes, to upsets, to stunning one-shot knockouts… and, well, whatever it was that happened to Chris Weidman’s leg, but one element from the evening which …

Niurka Aguero was apparently too busy to just stay put until her turn came to appear before Florida 11th Circuit Court Judge Thomas Rebull on Wednesday, instead giving the virtual courtroom a peculiar glimpse into her job that they are unlikely to forget. Donning a medical gown and gloves, and …

“At the end of the day, this is going to come down to whether or not everyone does their part,” Whitmer said Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ program, adding that Michigan ranks behind only Florida in the B117 Covid variant. Michigan and Florida are not next to each other, …

The American Meteor Society said the fireball was spotted over Florida – and could be seen as far away as Georgia – at 02:17 GMT on Tuesday. The AMS received 259 reports of the sighting. Most of the videos showed a ball of fire coming down at a steep angle, …

The nearly two-hour video was first streamed on the channel of a Florida CBS affiliate in mid-March, in which the governor spoke at length at the Florida state capitol with four public health experts hailing from Stanford University, the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School. While the roundtable remains …

Florida’s First District Court of Appeals ruled that law enforcement is not exempt from a measure designed to shield the identities of crime victims from the public spotlight, even when officers are involved in fatal shootings. “A police officer meets the definition of a crime victim… when a crime suspect …

Over 300 households received an emergency evacuation alert on Saturday afternoon, after the initial danger zone that included just a few dozen houses was expanded half-mile west and one mile southwest, according to the Manatee County Public Safety Department. The artificial pond at the Piney Point industrial site, abandoned since …

The order, which the Republican governor signed on Friday, notes that Covid-19 vaccines are not required by law, and individual inoculation records are private health information. Requiring vaccine passports to access goods, services or activities would infringe individual freedom and invade privacy, DeSantis added in the order. “Requiring so-called Covid-19 …