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'A Great Burden Was Lifted': A Father's Made-Up Day Of Forgiveness

Bernie Feldstein created "Amnesty Day," a tradition he started so his kids could confess anything without punishment. "I just wanted you to feel that you could share anything with me," he told them.

In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church's right to protest at funerals, arguing that even hateful speech, when addressing matters of pubic import on public property, should be protected.

How Twitter Helped Change The Mind Of A Westboro Baptist Church Member

Growing up, Megan Phelps-Roper was told that God killed soldiers as punishment for tolerance of homosexuality. She started to question her beliefs after she began running the church's Twitter account.

Bryan Fulwider at Rollins College in 2012. Photo: © Judy Watson Tracy

Accused Minister Championed by key Central Florida Groups

Even while groups celebrated Bryan Fulwider as a pastor and nonprofit executive, he lacked his own church and later derailed his charity group. He was arrested for battery in 2009, although it wasn’t prosecuted.

Dr. Brent Chrite became the 7th President of Bethune Cookman University on July 1, 2019.

College And Controversy: How Bethune-Cookman's New President Plans To Clean Up The Financial Mess

Bethune Cookman University President, Brent Chrite, took over a college mired in controversy. Documents released in June show that BCU has suffered five…

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From the Pages of Orlando Weekly: Central Florida's hotels and restaurants are the chief reason Orlando consistently has the lowest median income of all major metros in the U.S.

We’re going to revisit a topic from last week’s commentary because it’s of vital importance. Last week, we told you how the president of the Florida…

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After A Life Of Painful Sickle Cell Disease, A Patient Hopes Gene-Editing Can Help

She's the first patient with a genetic disorder to be treated with the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR. The treatment has wrapped up and now she's waiting to see if it brings relief.

Saeed Jones' Eloquent Coming-Of-Age Is Hard To Read — And Harder To Put Down

Jones grew up black, gay and isolated in Texas. He chronicles his wobbly path to self-affirmation in the raw and eloquent new memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives.

How High School Debate In 1990s Kansas Explains The Present: A Novel Argument

Author Ben Lerner's new semi-autobiographical book, The Topeka School, finds a competitive-debate whiz kid navigating adolescence — and perhaps the precursors to today's American politics.

"The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted," Christopher Wylie says of his work at Cambridge Analytica.

Whistleblower Explains How Cambridge Analytica Helped Fuel U.S. 'Insurgency'

In 2014, Christopher Wylie resigned from his position as Cambridge Analytica's research director. He later exposed the company's role in the Trump presidential campaign and the Brexit referendum.

If you use travel booking websites, beware. Photo: WUSF

Study: Hotel Booking Websites Cheat Travelers Out Of Billions

New research from the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) reveals that customers are cheated out of almost six billion dollars annually by online booking scams from fraudulent or misleading travel websites.

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