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Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried teed off Monday on a wide range of economic, health and election issues that she says the state Cabinet and lawmakers should have addressed throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

Here is the latest forecast path of Tropical Storm Beta, which is expected to affect the Gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana for several days this week, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Miami-born Judge Barbara Lagoa, a frontrunner for the open U.S. Supreme Court seat, has played a role in decisions limiting felon voting rights, ousting former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel from office and blocking Miami Beach’s efforts to raise the city’s minimum wage.

Florida’s governor is proposing stiffer penalties for civil rights protesters who disrupt traffic, harass business customers, damage buildings and accost police. Gov. Ron DeSantis also wants to withhold state funding from municipalities that “defund the police.”

CDC's new in the guidance, which lasted a little more than 72 hours, was emphasis on the airborne transmission of the virus via minuscule particles called aerosols. Unlike their larger, heavier counterparts called droplets, aerosols are lighter, can travel farther and can linger in the air longer.

On Monday, Florida health officials reported 369 more young people in the 15-to-24 age group have been infected, making up 22% of all new cases.

During equinoxes, the rising and setting sun lines up with Chicago's east-west street grid, creating spectacular views as the sun is framed in Chicago's skyline

The Center for Voter Information, whose official-looking mailers infuriate Florida elections supervisors, is sending out another round of election mail to the state. The latest round of mailers included one sent to the late Mookie P. Aronson of Coconut Creek, who clearly wasn't eligible to vote. He was an apricot poodle who, alas, died 11 years ago.

Barbara Lagoa, a Miami-born federal judge and former Florida Supreme Court justice, is rumored to be on President Donald Trump’s radar as a possible nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, just days after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.

Andrew Charles Eddy was taken by air ambulance to Ryder Trauma Center in Miami Sunday after the 10:30 a.m. shark attack in the waters off Sombrero Key Light.

Barbara Lagoa is rumored to be on President Donald Trump’s short list of nominees for the Supreme Court. Trump has suggested he will nominate a woman to fill the seat long-held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday at 87.

About 75 people came Saturday evening to the steps of the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale to honor and mourn Ginsburg, who succumbed to complications from pancreatic cancer on Friday.