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APOLLO BEACH — In the race to save Florida’s coral reef from extinction, hope comes in many shapes and sizes. At the Florida Aquarium’s coral breeding lab, it looks like hundreds of knobby, golden-brown pastries.Scientists believe some of these palm-sized coral babies — 1,050 of them in total — contain the special ingredients to stave off a warming ocean that has damaged 84% of the world’s reefs since 2023. The first chapter in the life of these Elkhorn coral offspring is already one of resilience: They are the children of parent coral colonies evacuated from offshore Florida waters ahead of…

According to a White House statement, the deal with Saudi Arabia was “the largest defence sales agreement in history.”The US and Saudi Arabia have concluded contracts for the Gulf monarchy to receive nearly $142 billion in new weapons, military equipment and training support, the White House announced on May 13.The deal is part of a more $600 billion deal to help Saudi Arabia expand its economic ties with the United States. The White House announced the contract when President Donald Trump began his four-day tour in the Middle East.In a fact sheet released Tuesday, the White House calls the $600…

Video above: “Broken” insurance company moved money, report found TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida insurance regulators fined a $100,000 property insurance company for a claim error in the wake of Hurricane Ian in 2022. According to a consent order document provided by the Florida Department of Insurance Regulation, Centauri Specialty Insurance Company provided a disclosure statement in providing payments for claims that were not fully and final payments, as it failed to use a properly appointed coordinator. Manatee dies while receiving medical care at Florida State Park: Report Insurance regulators pointed to 168 instances using insurance adjusters that were not…

Matt O’Brien Microsoft says it solves almost 3% of its total workforce. The tech giant did not disclose the total amount of lost employment, but it would reach around 6,000. Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of June last year. Approximately 55% of these workers were in the United States Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, said layoffs will take place across all levels and regions but will focus on reducing the level of management. A notification occurred on Tuesday. Microsoft announced fewer rounds of performance-based layoffs in January. However, the 3% reduction will be Microsoft’s biggest layoff since early 2023.…

Stark, Fla. (AP) — Florida has been at a rapid pace of executions this year. One convicted murderer is due to die this week, and the state will be the sixth death in 2025 on June 10th. Glenn Rogers, 62, is scheduled to die from a fatal injection at Florida State Jail on Thursday after a 1995 stab wound near Tampa by Tina Marie Cribbs. Rogers, who claimed he killed many people across the country, was also sentenced to death in California for the murder of another woman. Rogers was arrested for driving Cribs’ car in Kentucky and claimed she…

Associated Press Technology Writer Barbara Ortutay SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Major social media platforms such as Tiktok, Instagram and X have been unable to protect LGBTQ+ users from hatred and harassment as they intentionally rolled back their previous safety practices. The report states that the recent “unprecedented hate speech policy rollback” from the Instagram and Facebook parent meta platform and Google’s YouTube “actively undermine the safety of LGBTQ people” both online and offline. Meta rollback allows users to call LGBTQ people “mental disorders.” The scorecard assigns numerical ratings to each platform regarding LGBTQ safety, privacy and representation. Elon Musk’s X…

“All nine games, Carter was our most consistent progression,” Maurice said of Werhoge. “Playoff hockey is hockey he understands. It resonates with him. It plays at a very high pace. It’s very physical. That’s his best. Everything is lined up for him.” According to NHL statistics, Verhaeghe joined Corey Perry, Alex Ovechkin and Patrick Kane to achieve his fifth-game winning goal out of 11 active players. fine Max Domi will be in the Maple Leafs lineup in Game 5. He also has a little less money in his bank account. The Player Safety Bureau announced Monday that Panthers captain Alexander…

The “most preferred country” policy aims to incentivize drugmakers and equalize drug prices between the US and other countries.President Donald Trump aims to reduce the cost of prescription drugs for all Americans with the help of two carrots and a stick.Positive and negative induction aims to acquire pharmaceutical manufacturers to equalize prices in developed countries. This means dramatically lowering prices offered to U.S. consumers while increasing prices in other countries, particularly developed countries.The president’s most preferred national prescription drug price executive order issued on May 12 asks to offer the lowest price on US drug slates, then asks drug makers.Here…

The NHL has suspended Governor Doug Cifu, Vice President of Florida Panthers and Governor Doug Cifu from engaging with teams and leagues. CIFU interacted with Toronto fans on Sunday night in a post from X. Fans began trading hits by Florida players in this ongoing series by comparing maple leaves with Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. According to a Toronto fan, a post about the CIFU account was called “51st Anti-Semite Loser” by fans. President Donald Trump has often said that in recent months he hopes Canada will be added to the United States as the 51st state. The post was in one…

PeopleImages.com-Yuri A // Shutterstock Most UFO sightings in Florida When pilot Kenneth Arnold took off in a single-engine plane one afternoon in June 1947 from Cheharis, Washington, he was searching for a lost military plane that had crashed. But what he found was completely different. Today, it is what sparks cultural obsession in the United States.While flying around Mount Rainier, Arnold reportedly encountered nine curious and wingless objects that speed up the sky at 1,200 mph. Arnold spent years trying to explain what he saw. It reportedly uses a term that has soaked into American lexicons since “flying saucer.”Since then,…