ROSEWOOD, Fla. – Lizzie Robinson Jenkins’s living room walls are covered in neat rows and columns of early 1900s history. Tables are littered with artifacts from her aunt, including frayed handkerchiefs and a metal coin purse — family heirlooms almost lost to hate. The 84-year-old’s expression changed as she remembered …
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Read More »Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: UF backup quarterback released from jail after child pornography arrest. “Florida Gators backup quarterback was released from jail on an $80,000 bond Thursday, hours after his first court appearance in …
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The news that Iran threatened the families of its World Cup soccer team, which refused to sing the national anthem, came as no surprise to Shabnam Goli. When Goli was one, she was arrested. She and her mother spent a night in an Iranian jail for being at a birthday …
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While women in Iran protest national religious mandates to wear a headscarf, Florida women who wear a hijab worry they may face backlash for their decision to wear the veil.
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Liberal Gainesville voting majority unable to outweigh U.S. House District 3’s rural votes as Republican Congresswoman Kat Cammack defeats Democratic challenger Danielle Hawk With liberal Gainesville votes being swallowed by the surrounding conservative rural stronghold, incumbent Congresswoman Kat Cammack was able to cruise to victory in U.S. House District 3 …
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Republican Rep. Kat Cammack, one of the youngest conservative women in the U.S. House, won re-election Tuesday to a second term in the newly enlarged 3rd Congressional District across a dozen counties in north-central Florida. Cammack was winning by nearly 22 percentage points in early returns, too …
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The protesters assembled to voice their disapproval of the UF Board of Trustees’ final interview with its only candidate for president, U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska.
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The University of Florida on Tuesday formally selected Ben Sasse as its next president, setting aside concerns that the appointment of a conservative Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska would further politicize the state’s flagship higher education institution. The university’s board of trustees – largely appointed by Republican governors – voted …
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