UCF students rally for Palestinians, the latest in nationwide campus divestment protests • First Amendment challenge over Florida children’s book removal goes forward
 Orlando Morning Report Saturday, April 27, 2024 | | |
| | | | SpaceX | UCF students rally for Palestinians |First Amendment challenge over Florida children's book Good morning. It's Saturday, April 27, 2024. The weather forecast calls for cloudy skies with a high of 84 and low of 65. Click here for more weather. Want to go deeper? Why not sign up for one of our focused newsletters such as Go For Launch on the latest space news. Sign up here | | | | SpaceX has launches set for Saturday and Sunday from the Space Coast. | | | | | As protests roil college campuses nationwide, University of Central Florida students and local activists rallied Friday afternoon in solidarity with Palestinians and against the war in Gaza. | | | | | A federal judge has ruled that two authors and a student can pursue First Amendment claims against the Escambia County School Board over the removal of the children's book "And Tango Makes Three" from library shelves. | | | | | The University of Florida threatened pro-Palestinian student demonstrators with suspension and banishment from campus for three years if they violate a host of rules of behavior over protests that continued for a second day late Thursday. The university said employees or professors caught breaking its rules would be fired. | | | | | The race is on for U,S, Congress in Florida with the field of candidates being finalized on Friday. | | | | | Celebrity Cruises made its first trip to sister cruise line Royal Caribbean's private Bahamas island CocoCay this week. | | | | | Several top Florida insurance regulators say that legal reforms enacted in 2022 and 2023 have Florida's insurance market poised for a comeback. Homeowners, however, say they're still waiting for costs to decline. | | | | | Pro-Palestinian protestors march during a demonstration at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, Friday, April 26, 2024. A crowd estimated at about 200 rallied and marched on campus in opposition to Israel's response in the armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel) | | | | | Maxwell: Controversies involving Democrat Bruce Antone and Republican Carolina Amesty raise serious questions. Why isn't anyone demanding answers? | | | | | On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about whether a small Oregon city can cite and prosecute homeless people for sleeping in public places when they have nowhere else to lay their heads. If the case reveals nothing else about the state of our country, it reveals this: We continue to fail the homeless people who live among us, and no single court ruling in the world is going to … | | | |
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