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Government Accountability Office/U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementA Government Accountability Office report says ICE's lack of planning while expanding detention and operations led to wasteful spending. -
Sam Stockbridge/Central Florida Public MediaAmid statewide late voting surge, new county data show more new Democrats than nonpartisan voters and Republicans in Central Florida, even as the GOP has grown statewide.
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Local election results for Central Florida: County by county
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The city’s new school zone speed camera program launched this week with a 45-day warning period. Starting Nov. 30, speeding drivers will be ticketed. -
Our 2026 Voter Insight Panel discusses issues shaping their views ahead of the midterm election including surveillance, AI data centers, and property taxes. -
The incumbent congressman says he’s prepared to serve an area three times the size of the previous district, touting his decade of experience in the role. -
Students at Deltona High School in Volusia County held a watch party for NASA astronaut and alumnus Luke Delaney as he launched to the International Space Station. -
The crew of four — two NASA astronauts, one from Canada, and a Russian cosmonaut — heads to the International Space Station after liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. -
The Florida Department of Education released its first comprehensive rewrite of science learning standards in nearly two decades, with the last one adopted in 2008. -
Florida’s Department of Children and Families is removing certain refugees from Medicaid services starting today.
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As checks from President Trump for health costs hit millions of mailboxes, a poll shows Americans don't trust Republicans on healthcare. Experts doubt it will move the needle and say it is likely illegal. -
New research looks at the surprising similarities in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gathers in Tanzania and horticulturalists in Bolivia, and asks: What role do these bacteria play in human health? -
The Lahore High Court is a near-perfect specimen of British South Asian colonial architecture and its main square is a pleasant spot shaded by banyan trees. -
It's hard enough being a small-scale farmer. Then the Iran war drove up fertilizer prices. So farmers are using a traditional Asian recipe to make their own. They call it a "labor of love." -
A thinly traded prediction market offers a starting point. We explore potential winners and the big ideas that could earn them economics' biggest prize. -
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
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