Houston Texans player shot, injured in Florida club mass shooting

[ Houston Texans wide receiver Tank Dell was among the 10 people shot and injured at a Sanford, Fla., nightclub overnight Sunday, the team announced. Dell was released from the hospital later Sunday with no significant injures, the Texans said. Nobody was killed in the shooting, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Department, adding that … Read more

Most coral reef areas experienced bleaching in past year: Research

[ Coral reefs around the globe experienced a mass bleaching event in the past year as the ocean continues to heat, according to new research. Mass bleaching has been reported in coral reefs in at least 53 countries and territories in the Northern and Southern hemispheres since early 2023, researchers with the National Oceanic and … Read more

‘Billionaire Bunker’: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos buys third mansion for $90 million in Indian Creek Island

[ NEW DELHI: Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder recently designated as the world’s third richest billionaire by Forbes, has expanded his real estate portfolio with a third mansion on Florida‘s luxurious Indian Creek Island, famously known as the “Billionaire Bunker”. The acquisition, costing $90 million, elevates his total investment in the area to a staggering … Read more

Biden calls Florida court ruling on abortion ‘outrageous’

[ President Biden chastised what he called an “extreme” Florida Supreme Court ruling upholding the state’s 15-week abortion ban and triggering an even more restrictive policy. “Yesterday’s extreme decision puts desperately needed medical care even further out of reach for millions of women in Florida and across the South,” Biden said in a statement Tuesday. … Read more

Florida’s abortion law will change: Here’s when

[ The Florida Supreme Court upheld the state’s abortion law on Monday, setting up change to the law in the coming months that will likely be a focus for the November election. The court upheld the state’s current 15-week ban on abortion in the Monday ruling, allowing it to continue to be enforced. The conservative … Read more

Live updates as Auburn takes on Florida in the SEC Tournament Championship

[ For the second time this season, the Auburn Tigers and Florida Gators will meet on the hardwood Sunday afternoon — except there’s a lot more on the line this time around as the two teams will meet on the floor of Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena with an SEC Tournament title hanging in the balance. Auburn … Read more

Insurance Rates Are Soaring for US Homeowners in Climate Danger Zones

[ The First Street Foundation study points out that insurers could offer discounts to homeowners who take steps to fortify their homes, which would help make disasters less damaging. Moore said Florida once was a leader when it came to measures like building codes, although that has changed in recent years. The state also had … Read more

Live updates: Alabama opens SEC tournament against Florida in quarterfinals

[ Fresh off the news of a contract extension for head coach Nate Oats, Alabama basketball will look to capture its third Southeastern Conference tournament title. It’ll start against a familiar opponent. The three-seeded Crimson Tide (21-10, 13-5 SEC) will play No. 6-seed Florida (22-10, 11-7) inside Bridgestone Arena at approximately 8:30 p.m., or 30 … Read more

States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat

[ The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies in a difficult situation. Major meat producers Cargill and Tyson have both invested in cultivated meat companies, while Brazil’s JBS is working on a cultivated research site in Brazil. “We see ourselves as an ‘and’ solution, not an … Read more

Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates

[ Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, were arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of male and female classmates without consent, according to police reports obtained by WIRED via public record request. The arrest reports say the boys, aged 13 and 14, created the images of the students who were … Read more