LOCAL NEWS
Steve Stewart discusses controversy related to the fire services fund.
Bond was denied Thursday for a Tallahassee woman who was arrested Wednesday in connection with the drowning death of her 2-year-old son, O’Rhyan Moore.
FLORIDA NEWS
Amid legal wrangling over a controversial immigrant-detention center in the Everglades, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday said the state plans to use a shuttered prison in North Florida to boost detention of people targeted for deportation.
Florida had 6,230 initial unemployment claims during the week that ended Aug. 9, down slightly from the previous week, according to a report issued Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor.
NATIONAL NEWS
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to meet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, at 3:30 pm ET today to discuss the war in Ukraine. The talk—which will be conducted one-on-one with two translators present—will be followed by lunch with their delegations and a joint press conference.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will call a special election Nov. 4 to vote on redrawn maps in an effort to secure five more Democratic House seats in midterms; follows Texas’ plan to redistrict in favor of Republicans (More).
US stock markets close near flatline (S&P 500 +0.0%, Dow -0.0%, Nasdaq -0.0%) as US producer price index—key inflation metric tracking wholesale product prices—shows 0.9% rise in July, the highest monthly gain in three years (More).
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