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Florida Panthers off to 2nd-best start in franchise history

The Florida Panthers start every season with the same vow, to get off to a strong start and not take an early hit in the standings.

Photo: U.S. Department of Agriculture on Flickr.

Officials plead: Don't let Super Bowl become superspreader

The nation’s top health officials are sounding the alarm about the Super Bowl being a potential superspreader event.

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How Democrats Found Thousands Of New Voters And Flipped Georgia's Senate Seats

Roughly 225,000 people who voted in January runoff elections didn't vote in November. A disproportionate number of them were people of color, a sign where the Democrats' political future lies.

Georgia Washington has lived in Southern Heights, a predominantly Black neighborhood in the northern part of Baton Rouge, La., since 1973. After falling ill with COVID-19 last year, Washington was eager to get vaccinated, which is in line with federal health recommendations. But Washington again had difficulty finding a local provider, this time to get a vaccine.

Across The South, COVID-19 Vaccine Sites Missing From Black And Hispanic Neighborhoods

An NPR analysis of COVID-19 vaccination sites in major cities across the Southern U.S. reveals a racial disparity, with most sites located in whiter neighborhoods.

Intersection: The Performing Arts And The Pandemic

Facing a deadly virus that prevents large groups of people from gathering safely, artists in central Florida have found new ways to keep the performing arts alive.

Jonathan Lee Iverson. Photo: Matthew Peddie, WMFE

Ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson says Omnium Circus seeks to “broaden the big top”

While Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus packed up its big top more than three years ago, a brand new circus company--formed just last year--is looking to expand the message of the circus.

MBI Victim Advocate Lauren Portal Says Active Bystanders Could End Human Trafficking at the Super Bowl: Here's What to Look For, How to Help Ahead of the Game

Law enforcement agencies are stepping up efforts to crack down on human trafficking ahead of the Super Bowl in Tampa this weekend.

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Country Star Morgan Wallen Suspended By Label, Dropped by Radio, CMT After Using Slur

The moves came after TMZ posted a video of the fast-rising country star using a racial slur.

"Hip-Hop Didn't Invent Anything. It Reinvented Everything." UCF Offers Certificate in the Business of Hip-Hop

One of the most popular classes on UCF’s campus is Professor C. Keith Harrison’s The Business of Hip-Hop Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Above: N., a sex worker at a bar in Pattaya, Thailand. The sex trade has offered good-paying jobs for many people from rural areas who were facing a life of tending rice paddies and digging up cassava roots.

How The Pandemic Has Upended The Lives Of Thailand's Sex Workers

Many of them left rural areas to earn their living in the sex trade and send money home to help their families. COVID-19 restrictions have changed all that.

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