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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference at Universal Studios Wednesday, June 3, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. The Universal Studios theme park reopened today for season pass holders and will open to the general public on Friday. Bars and theme parks will be part of Florida's Phase 2 reopening after closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. [JOHN RAOUX | AP]
Bars and movie theaters can reopen in most of Florida starting Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis says
Tattoo shops, bowling alleys, massage parlors and tanning salons are also allowed to re-open Friday.
Yesterday• Health
As Trump pushes to move GOP convention, Florida cities wonder if they’re in contention
Jacksonville skyline looking north.
“We welcome the opportunity to host the @GOPconvention in Jacksonville,” Mayor Lenny Curry tweeted Tuesday night.
Yesterday• The Buzz
‘Are you kidding me?’: DeSantis sounds off on George Floyd’s death
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during news conference last month. [WILFREDO LEE | AP]
DeSantis also said he’s sending National Guard troops to Washington, although the mayor did not ask for them.
Yesterday• The Buzz
Will Joe Biden make a former Florida police chief his 2020 running mate?
Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., center, and other House Democrats crowd into an elevator as they rush to the chamber for a vote just after meeting with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who is moving swiftly toward House passage of a coronavirus aid package possibly this week, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. [J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE | AP]
The law enforcement background that served Val Demings so well in the last four years may turn out to be a mixed bag amid the national outcry against police brutality and a flawed criminal justice...
Yesterday• The Buzz

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    1 hour ago• Nation & World
    In this Nov. 2, 2018, file photo, former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic candidates in Miami. [LYNNE SLADKY | AP]
  2. As Trump pushes to move GOP convention, Florida cities wonder if they’re in contention
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Jacksonville skyline looking north.
  3. Bars and movie theaters can reopen in most of Florida starting Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis says
    Yesterday• Health
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference at Universal Studios Wednesday, June 3, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. The Universal Studios theme park reopened today for season pass holders and will open to the general public on Friday. Bars and theme parks will be part of Florida's Phase 2 reopening after closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. [JOHN RAOUX | AP]
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  5. ‘Are you kidding me?’: DeSantis sounds off on George Floyd’s death
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during news conference last month. [WILFREDO LEE | AP]
  6. Trump says GOP is pulling convention from North Carolina
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper speaks Tuesday during a briefing at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh, N.C. [ETHAN HYMAN | AP]
  7. AR-15 tweet by Florida lawmaker posed no threat, says top Republican
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini, a Lake County Republican.
  8. Matt Gaetz tweet flagged by Twitter for ‘glorifying violence’
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. [ANDREW HARNIK | AP]
  9. Florida Supreme Court mulls reinstating death sentences
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    The Florida Supreme Court. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]
  10. Will Joe Biden make a former Florida police chief his 2020 running mate?
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., center, and other House Democrats crowd into an elevator as they rush to the chamber for a vote just after meeting with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who is moving swiftly toward House passage of a coronavirus aid package possibly this week, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. [J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE | AP]
  11. Florida’s unemployed must now wait in ‘virtual room’ before logging in, frustrating many
    Jun. 1• Health
    The latest feature on Florida's online unemployment system: a walking stick figure. [Florida Department of Economic Opportunity]
  12. Florida judge rejects children’s climate change lawsuit, citing 'political’ issue
    Jun. 1• Environment
    Judge Kevin Carroll, of Leon County, presided over a hearing by video conference Monday in a lawsuit over climate change brought by eight children against state officials. [Screenshot from Zoom]
  13. Black elected officials in Hillsborough call for a task force to address violence
    May 31• Hillsborough
    Police arrest a woman near the Cricket at 2920 E Busch Blvd as police hold the line with protestors on Saturday night in Tampa. [DIRK SHADD | Times]
  14. Florida’s unemployed still haven’t been paid. And they don’t think it’s their fault.
    May 31• Health
    Florida jobless workers who have spoken to the Times/Herald about their struggle to get unemployment insurance from the state. [Tampa Bay Times] [Tampa Bay Times]
  15. DeSantis has the dream Supreme Court Republicans have always wanted
    May 30• The Buzz
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures as he speaks during a news conference along side Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez, Tuesday, May 26, 2020, at the Miami-Dade Public Library in Miami. DeSantis appointed two South Floridians to the state Supreme Court on Tuesday: a Palm Beach County circuit judge who immigrated from Jamaica and, a former assistant U.S. attorney who is the son of Cuban immigrants. [WILFREDO LEE | AP]
  16. There’s a new theory about Florida, coronavirus and pneumonia deaths. Read this first.
    May 30• Health
    A patient is transported by ambulance from the long-term care campus of Freedom Square in Seminole last month. [DIRK SHADD | Times]
  17. Tom Lee to retire from Florida Senate in November
    May 29• The Buzz
    Sen. Tom Lee, R Brandon, discusses a bill involving white nationalists and white supremacists Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, during a Senate Infrastructure and Security Committee meeting at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sears) [PHIL SEARS | AP]
  18. DeSantis starts hurricane tax holiday at Boca Home Depot, announces new walk-up test sites
    May 29• Health
    Home Depot. [MARTHA ASENCIO RHINE | Times]
  19. Toll roads meetings must stop, Florida open government group says
    May 29• The Buzz
    A May 14, 2020 toll road task force meeting was held virtually. [The Florida Channel]
  20. Florida judge refuses to order fixes to unemployment system
    May 29• The Buzz
    - [State of Florida]
  21. How Donald Trump could have his convention in Charlotte AND Florida. Maybe Arizona, too.
    May 29• The Buzz
    President Donald Trump participates in a briefing about Hurricane Dorian with North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, left, aboard Air Force One at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, N.C. President Donald Trump demanded Monday, May 25, 2020, that North Carolina's Democratic governor sign off “immediately” on allowing the Republican National Convention to move forward in August with full attendance despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Trump's tweets Monday about the RNC, planned for Charlotte, come just two days after the North Carolina recorded its largest daily increase in positive cases yet. [Associated Press]
  22. Twitter adds ‘glorifying violence’ warning to Trump tweet
    May 29• Nation & World
    President Donald Trump holds up a copy of the New York Post as he speaks before signing an executive order aimed at curbing protections for social media giants, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Washington. [EVAN VUCCI | AP]
  23. Florida officials approve $79 million in conservation land buys, including near Green Swamp
    May 28• Environment
    Sandhill cranes in an area of the Green Swamp in Polk County that is similar to a tract preserved Thursday under the Florida Forever program. [Photo courtesy Doug DeNeve]
  24. Nikki Fried blasts DeSantis for keeping Florida’s Cabinet ‘in the dark’
    May 28• Health
    FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2019 photo, Agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried speaks at a pre-legislative news conference in Tallahassee, Fla. Fried, the only Democrat holding statewide office in Florida, upbraided Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday, May 28, 2020, for keeping the state Cabinet “in the dark” by failing to convene the panel to discuss the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File) [STEVE CANNON | AP]
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