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Dan Mullen is out and Greg Knox is in for now. Knox served as the special teams and running backs coach. He will serve as the interim head coach for the Florida Gators.
Read More »Gators part ways with Dan Mullen
The House passes a $2 trillion spending bill, but braces for changes in the Senate
The House voted on near-party lines Friday morning to approve a roughly $2 trillion social and climate spending package.
Read More »Recovering routine: A family’s fight for normalcy
The family couldn’t have predicted that their world would be turned upside down when Category Four Hurricane Ida barrelled through Lousiana on Aug. 29.
Read More »Beloved ‘Dolphin Tale’ star Winter dies at Florida aquarium
A prosthetic-tailed dolphin named Winter that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies died Thursday evening at a Florida aquarium.
Read More »The Lede || Season IV Episode VII: Molding new positions
In this episode of The Lede, we take a look at a new company formed to help college athletes, we showcase a local potter and we give you a new installment of Gator Grub.
Read More »Veterans healthcare issues
A northeast Florida woman wants to make sure veterans get the help they need after serving their country. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, there are 1,583,697 veterans in Florida. The National Office was unavailable. The local VA was unable to comment today.
Read More »UF makes national headlines over legal testimony
The University of Florida made national headlines this week after it denied the request for three professors to take side work as legal experts. The professors would have been hired to testify against Florida’s new election law. We outline the conflict.
Read More »UF subpoenaed for student athlete records in an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA
The University of Florida must release financial aid records and related documents pertaining to all of its current student athletes – as well as all Gators from between 2016 and 2020 – as part of a potential class-action lawsuit against the NCAA and its Power Five conferences. All of the …
Read More »The Facebook Papers: What you need to know about the trove of insider documents
Facebook’s rank-and-file employees warned their leaders about the company’s effects on society and politics in the United States. And they say its inability to effectively moderate content has magnified those dangers, both in the U.S. and abroad. Those are two of the main takeaways from thousands of internal Facebook documents …
Read More »Moderna won’t share its vaccine recipe. WHO has hired an African startup to crack it
The World Health Organization has hired a company based in South Africa to figure out how to make an mRNA vaccine against COVID.
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