Unfortunately, Linda McMahon, the education secretary, agrees with President Trump’s executive order that the Department of Education should go away, but she hasn’t stopped there. As a consequence of massive job cuts McMahon has enacted so far, she has hobbled the federal government’s ability to gather statistics on student achievement, effective teaching practices and student…
Joe Grinsteiner is a gregarious online personality who touts the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. In a recent Facebook video, he produced a tube of veterinary-grade ivermectin paste — the kind made for deworming horses. He gave the tube a squeeze. Then he licked a slug of the stuff, and gulped. “Yum,” Mr. Grinsteiner said in the…
SAN FRANCISCO — In summer 2022, the new Florida men’s basketball staff had zero wins, an auspicious but limited track record and one guarantee: Thomas Haugh, the lanky three-star recruit in the practice gym, was not leaving Gainesville without plans to come back. He was possibly the only human ever to be both a native…
A video that circulated widely on the internet recently showed a Haitian gang leader, Joseph Wilson, shirtless, happily showing off belts of .50 caliber ammunition, mockingly saying he used the armor-piercing bullets to groom his hair. “We have enough combs for our hair to last a year,” he joked. So how did he get them?…
Airlines are having to revamp their plans ahead of the peak summer travel season as Canadians avoid trips to the United States amid an escalating trade war between the two neighbors. A grass roots effort by Canadians to boycott all things American — from U.S. grocery products and alcohol to tourist hot spots — had…
A woman and three children were killed in a domestic shooting in Pembroke Park, South Florida. Two other individuals were seriously injured and rushed to the hospital. The incident took place around 8 pm on Wednesday, according to Michael Kane, battalion chief with the Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue. An adult male and a girl…
The search for three individuals missing after an 18-foot boat capsized in Jacksonville, Florida, was suspended on Saturday night following the death of one person. The Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department responded to a distress call on Friday evening around 8 p.m. that reported a capsized vessel near Goat Island on the St. Johns River. Capt….
Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, the online influencers who decamped last month to the United States while facing human-trafficking charges in two European countries, were set to return on Friday to Romania ahead of a criminal proceeding, one of them said Friday. The British American siblings were expected to arrive at night in…
A Florida man convicted of murdering an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother in 1993 was executed Thursday evening after decades on death row. Prison officials confirmed that Edward James, 63, was pronounced dead at 8:15 pm following a three-drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. James had pleaded guilty to the September 19,…
University of South Florida doctor resigns after revealing strategy to bypass Florida’s anti-DEI laws Dr. Haywood Brown, the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida (USF), is facing intense scrutiny after audio recordings surfaced in which he described strategies to bypass Florida’s anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) laws. The controversial…