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Florida residents can no longer elect to change their gender on their driver’s license. Transgender people feel targeted by the policy

By Denise Royal and Carlos Suarez, CNN (CNN) — Floridians can no longer elect to update or change their gender on Florida driver’s licenses, according to a memo sent to state officials by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and obtained by CNN. In the Friday memo, Robert Kynoch, deputy executive director of the Department of

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Jennifer Crumbley said ‘I failed as a parent’ in message after her son’s school shooting

By Eric Levenson, Lauren del Valle and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Jennifer Crumbley sent several messages criticizing her own parenting ability and discussing how the family’s firearm was secured shortly after her teenage son Ethan carried out a school shooting at his Michigan high school in November 2021, according to messages revealed in court

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What to know about how lawmakers are addressing deepfakes like the ones that victimized Taylor Swift

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The growing issue of AI-generated deepfakes has already been a hot topic in state legislatures. Then Taylor Swift was victimized with her face appearing on pornographic images. At least ten states have deepfake laws on the books, and now most legislatures are considering new measures. One Missouri lawmaker introduced a

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Florida sheriff’s deputy takes his own life outside agency headquarters

SEBRING, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a sheriff’s deputy in central Florida took his own life outside the agency’s headquarters. The Highlands County Sheriff’s Office says 56-year-old Paul Robitaille worked as a detention deputy in the county courthouse in Sebring and had been with the agency since March 2007. Investigators say Robitaille asked his supervisor

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Russia and Ukraine complete ‘major’ prisoner exchange after mysterious plane crash

By Anna Chernova, Yulia Kesaieva, Lauren Kent and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war, in the first such swap since the deadly crash of a Russian military plane that Moscow claimed was carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 207 Ukrainian service members

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