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‘What night really looks like’: lights out as Floridians clean up after Idalia

Hurricane Idalia left behind a trail of debris and floodwaters across Florida, but – as power cut out in its wake – it also left behind true darkness as night

DeSantis snubs Biden as president tours Hurricane Idalia damage in Florida

Ron DeSantis will not meet Joe Biden on the president’s tour of Hurricane Idalia damage on Saturday, the Florida governor’s office has said, adding that he thought Biden’s visit would

HBCUs in the US have always been a white supremacist target Saida Grundy

Just nine years after Augusta Institute’s founding in Georgia, a bloody massacre took place directly across the Savannah River in Hamburg, South Carolina. Since 1867, the leaders of the institute

Biden tours Florida hurricane damage: ‘nobody can deny impacts of climate crisis’

Joe Biden said that no one can deny the impacts of the climate crisis anymore after he visited Florida on Saturday and surveyed the damage left behind by Hurricane Idalia.

‘Where learning goes to die’: DeSantis’s rightwing takeover of a liberal arts college

When Nicholas Clarkson submitted his letter of resignation as an assistant professor of gender studies at New College of Florida (NCF) on 17 August, he became the 41st faculty member

Florida judge strikes down DeSantis-backed voting map as unconstitutional

A judge in Florida has ruled in favor of voting rights groups that filed a lawsuit against a congressional redistricting map approved by Ron DeSantis in 2022. Voting rights groups

Expert says ‘some kind of miracles’ needed in ‘world of real estate’ to reverse trends

The housing market continues to leave homebuyers struggling to find affordable options as mortgage rates surge and inventory remains scarce.  One industry expert highlighted changes facing buyers trying to combat

Should you make an all-cash offer on a house?

   All-cash offers are just as they sound: a home offer where the buyer intends to pay cash out-of-pocket with no outside funding. This takes the need for securing a

Surprisingly durable US economy poses key question: Are we facing higher-for-longer interest rates?

   Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting, June 14, 2023, at the Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) By

Passage: Remembering Bob Barker

   The longtime host of “The Price Is Right,” who was also a passionate advocate for animal rights, died Saturday at age 99. Tracy Smith reports.