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Why is Florida eliminating most Covid-19 restrictions?
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    DeSantis signs bill banning vaccine ‘passports,’ suspends local pandemic restrictions.
    Tampa Bay Times (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 77% • 8 min read

    Florida Gov. DeSantis on Monday signed Senate Bill 2006, which gives the governor the ability to override local emergency orders. That bill does not take effect until July 1. DeSantis signed an executive order immediately suspending pandemic-related local restrictions through June, as well as one that invalidates all remaining local emergency orders that are still in place after July 1.
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    The [bill] would make it more difficult for local governments to respond to public emergencies by requiring their emergency orders to be narrowly tailored and extended only in seven-day increments for a total of 42 days and gives the governor the ability to invalidate an emergency order. Currently, such orders can be extended indefinitely.
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    DeSantis said the law is meant to ensure that officials in Florida don’t inappropriately “seize power.” Democrat Mayor Rick Kriseman tweeted that cities like St. Petersburg, Tampa, Orlando, Miami and Miami Beach “saved Florida and the governor’s behind throughout this pandemic.”
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    Gov. DeSantis suspends all local COVID emergency orders in Florida.
    South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 77% • 6 min read
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    Virus tolls similar despite governors’ contrasting actions.
    Associated Press (Center) • Factual Grade 75% • 5 min read

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How will the phase-out of refrigerants impact climate change targets?


    Hydrofluorocarbons, known as HFCs and used frequently in air conditioners and refrigerators, are greenhouse gases that trap heat far more than other gases such as carb...

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Why is Colombia's president withdrawing a bill that would have increased taxes?


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Why might herd immunity no longer be the threshold for reopening the country?


    Last December, White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci said the herd immunity threshold for the coronavirus could be 80 to 90%. With roughly 20% of the population still...

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Context: Proposed federal police reform bill.

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Yes - Qualified immunity protections should be reduced to a more common sense, limited form of immunity for government officials. The notion that police officers who allegedly stole $225,000 from two suspects during a search are protected by qualified immunity because there was no prior case specifically prohibiting such conduct (Jessop v. Fresno) is simply a bridge too far in protecting officials from accountability for their illegal actions.


No - The spirit of qualified immunity has been recognized in our court systems since the early 1900s and...



Yes - The police line of work is critical to our safety, highly unappreciated and very difficult. But be...



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How will Bill and Melinda Gates' divorce impact their philanthropic foundation?


    Melinda, 56, has in the past said their marriage has been “incredibly hard,” saying that Bill, 65, regularly works 16-hour days and can find it hard to make time for the family. “When he was...

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