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More than 50 years after the federal government forced hundreds of Native Alaskans into boarding schools, their descendants are haunted by — and trying to overcome —residual trauma.
Read More »The Conflicting Educations Of Sam Schimmel
Former Gators Coach Rhonda Faehn Out From USA Gymnastics Amid Fallout From Nassar Scandal
The organization announced in a statement Friday that Rhonda Faehn "is no longer with USA Gymnastics."
Read More »GPD to Rewrite Policy on Reporting Undocumented Immigrants to ICE
The Gainesville Police Department said on Tuesday it will rewrite its policy of reporting undocumented immigrants to federal immigration officials.
Read More »‘There’s So Much More To Come’: UF Students Energized After D.C. ‘March For Our Lives’
University of Florida freshman Alyson Moriarty is also ready to make her voice heard in the #NeverAgain movement. She says instead of grieving, she decided to take action.
Read More »After Florida Rampage, Some Owners Are Destroying Their Guns
In response to the killings of 17 people at a Parkland school by a 19-year-old with an AR-15, some gun owners across the country are waging personal protests against mass shootings by destroying their own guns.
Read More »‘Let Trump Be Trump’: What Five Local Supporters Think About the President’s First Year
A panel of President Donald Trump's local voters that WUFT assembled talked about what they liked and didn't like about the president's first year in office.
Read More »NPR’s Robert Siegel Reflects on 30 Years of All Things Considered
The "overarching theme” Siegel has observed in his 40 years at NPR is a shift from “a very predictable, if stable, order … into a very unpredictable world.”
Read More »‘Any Day You’re In America’s A Great Day’: Camp Blanding Honors 9/11 Anniversary
The ceremony was coordinated by the Florida National Guard, Camp Blanding and the Camp Blanding Museum.
Read More »Hermine Expected To Weaken As It Lingers Offshore
Hermine is expected to begin weakening as it churns hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.
Read More »What’s In A Name? Ask The Folks In Two Egg, Florida
The town of Chicken, Alaska, and Two Egg, Florida, have definitively settled the question of which came first. What's also clear is they are neither first nor last in the country's long list of odd-named places. In Pennsylvania you'll find Intercourse, Virginville and Blue Ball. In Louisiana, if you've had too much of Moonshine, you can always visit Cut Off.
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