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Local farmers blame tariffs, immigration crackdown – Call it ‘slavery.’ Call it ‘forced labor.’

Local farmers blame tariffs, immigration crackdown for business losses, wasted crops With tariff talks top of mind, South Florida farmers say they’re in trouble. Crops are rotting on the vine and they’re blaming the ongoing trade wars and immigration changes. What does this mean for the future of our food? 7’s Heather Walker investigates. Perfectly Read More…

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TAXIATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION CONCERNS FROM THE 2025 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE OF REPRESENTATION OF THE ISSUES TALLAHASSEE — Though they will have to return to Tallahassee to hammer out a budget, Florida lawmakers Friday night finished most of the business of the 2025 legislative session. Here’s a look at 10 big issues from the session — some that passed, some Read More…

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Ibrahim Traoré, Like Trump, Is a Nationalist Protectionist— Make Burkina Faso Great Again!

At 37, Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traoré stands as the world’s youngest head of state, a figure Western media often paints as a “corrupt warlord”—a leader who, they claim, siphons gold from his country, rules as a dictator, and delays democracy. Yet locals chant “IB, IB!” in the streets, hailing him as a patriot on a mission to “Make Burkina Faso Read More…

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Marva Johnson Tapped As FAMU President Despite Pushback Over MAGA Ties

The choice of Marva Johnson as the 13th FAMU president rattled many in the Rattler Nation. In an 8-4 vote after an emotional meeting, in which some trustees called the vote a “foregone conclusion,” the Board of Trustees tapped the vice president of the internet and cable TV company Charter Communications to take the reins of the Read More…

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Black Woman Handcuffed All Because She Parked in a Handicap Parking Space

Breshari Faulkner, a 31-year-old African American mother from Senatobia, Mississippi, was forcibly arrested by police in front of her children on Mother’s Day after being confronted in a Walmart parking lot while parked in a handicap space. The arrest occurred on May 11 in Senatobia, where Faulkner says she was waiting for her disabled grandmother, Read More…

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Black Twin Sisters Vanished in 2004 — 20 Years Later, Only One Came Back

On a Thursday evening in March 2004, 15-year-old twin sisters Janelle and Jalisa Morgan left Murphy Middle School in Augusta, Georgia, just as they always did. They cut through familiar streets, stopped at their cousin’s apartment for cable TV and frozen pizza, then made their way to the Pump-N-Shop gas station on 12th Street. Security Read More…