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  Parkland Activists Ask SCOTUS to Leave Gun Policies to Local Lawmakers

  August 14 at 4:23 p.m.

  El Paso. Dayton. Chicago. Gilroy. At a time when America is yet again reeling from the devastation of gun violence, the Parkland student activists are taking their fight to the highest court in the nation.

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  Jewish Group Plans #NeverAgain Protest Outside GEO Group Headquarters in Boca Raton

  August 12 at 9:47 a.m.

  Every summer, people of the Jewish faith commemorate the day of Tisha B'Av by fasting and mourning. The date memorializes the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem centuries ago. In modern times, Tisha B'Av has become an annual opportunity for activism or charitable acts — a time to practice tikkun olam, the Jewish teaching of "repairing the world."

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  Publix Heirs Are Maxing Out Donations to Donald Trump's 2020 Campaign

  August 9 at 10:18 a.m.

  Progressives, critics, and basically all people with moral backbones and souls this week are furious at Stephen Ross — the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the gym chains Equinox and SoulCycle, as well as an investor in many other ventures — for quietly planning to host a fundraiser for Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign.

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  Broward Public Defenders Accuse Head Prosecutor of "Institutional Failures" of Justice

  August 8 at 9:58 a.m.

  State Attorney Mike Satz has been the top prosecutor in Broward County since 1976. He's somehow won every single reelection bid, every four years, for the past 43 years. In that time, the criminal-justice world has changed around him.

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  Activists Say DHS Agents Racially Profiled Drivers Outside Miramar ICE Office

  August 7 at 5:37 p.m.

  Federal immigration agents used limited parking outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Miramar as a pretext to racially profile drivers earlier today, activists say.

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  New Bill Would Make Florida 27th State to Decriminalize Marijuana

  August 6 at 11:35 a.m.

  As Floridians continue to ponder the idea of a not-so-distant future in which weed is legal, Democratic state Rep. Shevrin Jones has moved for more sudden action. Yesterday he introduced a bill that would decriminalize possession of certain quantities of marijuana in Florida.