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Holding 'Uncomfortable' Conversations: Broward Commissioners Receive Racial Equity Training Broward County Commissioners spent most of Tuesday in their meeting chambers, but unlike other weeks, this one wasn't spent going over a normal agenda. Instead, in the wake of civil unrest after the death of George Floyd, commissioners participated in a racial equity presentation from the Racial Equity Institute out of Greensboro, North Carolina. Read More Coping With The Coronavirus: Resources For South Florida Getting through the coronavirus pandemic is a challenge on almost every level. We hope these links can help you find the information or help you're looking for. If you have suggestions for information we should include here, email us at talktous@wlrnnews.org. Read MoreUpdated at 4:30 p.m. ET A current Justice Department prosecutor is planning to tell lawmakers on Wednesday that in his many years in the government, "I have never seen political influence play any role in prosecutorial decision making ... with one exception: United States v Roger Stone," according to a copy of his prepared testimony. Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET The funeral for Rayshard Brooks, the Black man who was fatally shot during an encounter with police at a fast food restaurant earlier this month, was held in Atlanta on Tuesday. A group of Democratic state senators are among those calling for an apology from Governor Ron DeSantis, after he said farmworkers’ lifestyle is facilitating COVID-19 spread. Even if someone is infected by the novel coronavirus and remains asymptomatic — free of coughing, fever, fatigue and other common signs of infection, that doesn't mean the coronavirus isn't taking a toll. The virus can still be causing mild — although likely reversible — harm to their lungs. A presidential debate scheduled for Oct. 15 will no longer be held at the University of Michigan. University President Mark Schlissel sent a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates explaining that coronavirus concerns made the logistics too difficult for the school to pull off. There’s a lot of talk about the new normal, but what does that mean in a place where the old normal had changed so much already? TALLAHASSEE --- A bar near the University of Central Florida has had its state alcoholic beverage license suspended for violating reopening guidelines after 13 employees and at least 28 customers tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Updated at 2:50 p.m. ET At a hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health and other federal officials said that no one had told them — including President Trump — to slow down testing for the coronavirus. The statements came after Trump has repeatedly said that more testing would lead to more infections being revealed. More than a third of COVID-19 deaths in the United States so far happened at nursing homes. Now Congress is demanding answers from five of the companies that run them, including one with 69 facilities in Florida.  Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is warning Floridians of scammers trying to impersonate health officials. Moody says the calls are going out from people pretending to be contact tracers to get personal details from victims. She's advising people to verify that contact tracing calls are coming from county health departments. How a National Health Crisis Fell On The Backs Of Local Leaders On Friday, March 13, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence stood in the White House Rose Garden to declare COVID-19 a national emergency. But the risk of the disease, Pence told the nation, remained low. “We don’t want everybody taking this test; it’s totally unnecessary,” Trump assured Americans. “This will pass.” Read More

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