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Washington (AFP) - NASA said Tuesday it was analyzing an object that crashed from the sky into a Florida man's home -- which could well be a piece of debris jettisoned from the International Space Station. Alejandro Otero of Naples, Florida, posted on X that the item "tore through the roof and went (through) 2 floors" of his house, almost striking his son, on the afternoon of March 8. He believes it was a piece of a cargo pallet containing old batteries that NASA ground control teams released from the orbital outpost in 2021. It was supposed to burn up harmlessly over the Earth's atmosphere ...
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Jupiter (United States) (AFP) - As the northern hemisphere edges toward spring and millions flock to the beach, headlines have dubbed the southeastern US state of Florida the world's most likely place to be bitten by a shark. They're right, but, at the same time, shark bites are exceedingly rare overall -- a fact scientists wish more people knew, especially amid declining shark populations desperately in need of conservation. "When the sharks in the water are targeting the fishes that they normally feed on, once in a while, people get in the way and the sharks make a mistake," said Gavin Naylo...
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Miami (AFP) - Donald Trump was in a Florida courtroom on Thursday as his lawyers argued for the dismissal of charges against the former president for alleged mishandling of classified documents. District Judge Aileen Cannon is holding a day-long hearing in Fort Pierce, north of Miami, to hear a pair of dismissal motions filed by Trump's attorneys. Trump, 77, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, pleaded not guilty in June to federal charges of unlawfully retaining national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements. He kept the classified files -...
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Miami Beach (United States) (AFP) - College students usually turn Miami Beach's main drag into a huge street party at this time of year -- blocking traffic as they drink and dance to thumping reggaeton music. But strict new measures mean the American ritual, known as Spring Break, is a much quieter affair this year. The city in south Florida is enacting rules to stamp out partying which has gotten out of control -- and even violent -- in recent years, with two killed in shootings last March. As the sun went down on the weekend, Ocean Drive -- typically the party hub for the thousands who desc...
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Palm Beach (United States) (AFP) - Under the chandeliers and gilt ceilings in the ballroom of his palatial Mar-a-Lago home, Donald Trump was feted by family and would-be courtiers Tuesday as he moved ever closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination. The audience at the Florida residence-turned-private-club was rapt as the former president took the stage, with Trump focused on his impending coronation as the man to take on Joe Biden in November's general election. "This is an incredible group of people," he told the crowd of supporters, donors and party officials. "We have some t...
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Miami (AFP) - Coral reefs off the Florida Keys islands are struggling to recover from last summer's record-breaking heat wave, new data showed Thursday, in another sign of the devastating impacts of human-caused climate change. The state's southern waters experienced hot tub-like conditions with temperatures in July briefly topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8C) in Manatee Bay. Coral, marine invertebrates made up of individual animals called polyps, have a symbiotic relationship with the algae that live inside their tissue and provide their primary source of food. When the water is too warm, ...
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Alpharetta (United States) (AFP) - The leaders of two of the largest US states went head-to-head Thursday in a prime-time debate offering contrasting views of how the deeply-polarized nation should be run -- and a preview of how the 2028 White House race might look. Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom, his counterpart in Democratic California, have been hammering each other for years over their vastly differing outlooks but the at times bad-tempered debate marked their first in-person clash. The pair represent almost one in five Americans -- California is the largest US s...
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Miami (AFP) - A Florida man convicted of murdering two women in 1996 is to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday. Michael Zack, 54, is to be put to death at 6:00 pm (2200 GMT) at the Florida State Prison in the town of Raiford. Zack was sentenced to death in 1997 for the June 1996 sexual assault, robbery and murder of Ravonne Smith, a woman he met at a bar. He was also convicted of the murder of another woman, Laura Rosillo, who had befriended him at another bar. Zack's defense attorneys had sought to block his execution on the grounds that he suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome and is in...
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Live Oak (United States) (AFP) - The 2024 election overshadowed President Joe Biden's trip to Florida on Saturday to survey hurricane relief efforts, as the state's governor and White House hopeful Ron DeSantis snubbed the visiting commander in chief. "I don't know. He's not going to be there," Biden said when asked what happened to a meeting with DeSantis that the president had previously confirmed to reporters. DeSantis' office told US media on Friday the security requirements of a presidential visit would cause too much disruption to recovery efforts and there were no plans for the pair to ...
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Washington (AFP) - A white man driven by racial hatred shot dead three Black people in a Florida discount store Saturday before taking his own life after a standoff with police, authorities said. "He targeted a certain group of people and that's Black people. That's what he said he wanted to kill. And that's very clear," Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters told a news conference about the gunman, who was in his early 20s. According to the sheriff's office, the shooter, who has not yet been identified, entered a Dollar General store wearing a tactical vest, armed with an AR-style rifle and a handgun...
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