The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Thursday, July 4, 2024

LOCAL NEWS

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The city of Tallahassee is preparing for its annual Fourth of July celebration at Tom Brown Park. Crews have begun to set the stage for Thursday’s performances. The headlining act is Revival. Opening act performers include members of Leon High School’s Summer Musical and the Kenny Hill Band. The celebration will take place from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

FLORIDA NEWS

A federal judge Wednesday blocked a new Biden administration health-care rule that would clash with Florida’s attempts to restrict treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender people.

The State of Florida has designated new spaceport territories, as of July 1, expanding its aerospace infrastructure following the enactment of legislation that broadens the definition of spaceport discretionary capacity improvement projects and authorizes supplementary funding.

NATIONAL NEWS

Hurricane Beryl ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95% of homes on a pair of islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines before rumbling toward the Cayman Islands and taking aim at Mexico’s Caribbean coast after leaving at least seven dead in its wake. What had been the earliest storm to develop into a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic, weakened to a Category 3 by early Thursday but remained a major hurricane. Its eye was forecast to pass just south of the Cayman Islands overnight.

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A federal district court judge on Wednesday temporarily halted parts of a nondiscrimination rule that would have kept insurers and medical professionals from denying hormone therapy, gender transition surgeries and similar medical care for transgender people.

TALLAHASSEE WEATHER