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  BICYCLING

  1,500-mile bike ride aims to benefit special-needs children

  Eleven women set out from Pinecrest on a four-week bicycle trip that will end in New York City. The Bike 4 Friendship ride will promote Friendship Circle’s mission.

• Home loans

  U.S. mortgage rates jump to 2-year high

  U.S. mortgage rates have suddenly jumped from near-record lows and are adding thousands of dollars to the cost of buying a home.
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  Immigration overhaul in doubt after Senate vote

  The Senate Thursday voted 68-32 to overhaul the nation’s immigration system, an ambitious plan that creates a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants while requiring tough new steps to secure the nation’s borders.

• Nation’s report card shows gains for minority students

  WASHINGTON – Students preparing to leave high school are faring fare no better in reading or math than students did four decades ago, the government said in a report Thursday that was certain to renew concerns about U.S. schools.
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  Supreme Court strikes down key part of Defense of Marriage Act, dismisses Prop 8

  The Supreme Court on Wednesday made history with two victories for marriage equality, both in California and nationwide.

• Environment

  Supreme Court gives landowners big win in Florida case

  In a case with far-reaching implications, the U.S. Supreme Court finds wetlands protections demanded by water managers violated landowner’s rights
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  COURTS

  Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling affects 5 Florida counties, including Monroe

  A divided Supreme Court halts the use of a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in a marked victory for conservatives and Southern states, including Florida.
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  U.S. Security

  As whistleblower Snowden remains out of sight, Ecuador mulls consequences of asylum plea

  Ecuador says it’s studying the asylum application of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who is thought to be in Moscow.
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  Obama to hit reset on nation's climate change strategy

  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday will announce a long-awaited federal strategy that not only is expected to rein in the country’s greenhouse gas emissions but also will address the sweeping effects of climate change already occurring.
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  POLITICS

  Rubio’s steadfast immigration reform foe: Sen. Jeff Sessions

  The GOP lawmaker from Alabama is on a mission to block Sen. Marco Rubio’s attempt to pass a far-reaching immigration bill.

• Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.

  Even before a former U.S. intelligence contractor exposed the secret collection of Americans’ phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees to keep closer tabs on their co-workers and exhorts managers to punish those who fail to report their suspicions.
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  COURTS

  Lawsuit: Patriots’ Aaron Hernandez shot man after fight at a Miami Gardens strip club

  Aaron Hernandez, a New England Patriots football player who is already part of a Boston-area homicide investigation, is being sued by a man claiming Hernandez shot him in the face after they argued at a Miami Gardens strip club.

• POLITICS

  Poll: Sen. Marco Rubio’s support is steady, but still trails Hillary Clinton

  If a presidential election were held today, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would easily defeat Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
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  NSA chief: Spying stopped 50 terrorist ‘events’

  The director of the National Security Agency testified Tuesday that the government’s massive surveillance program helped thwart more than 50 terrorist “events” worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001, including a planned bombing of the New York Stock Exchange that involved a Kansas City man.

• IMMIGRATION DEBATE

  Poll: 71 percent of Fla. voters back immigration reform

  The poll results could be a big boost to Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential presidential candidate in 2016.

• House members voice skepticism about surveillance programs after FBI, NSA briefing

  Members of Congress on Tuesday expressed growing doubts about the way the country’s top-secret surveillance programs are managed, even as the top legislators from each party voiced confidence in the programs and showed little interest in a public discussion of the issue.

• In My Opinion

  Fabiola Santiago: Some say ‘sí,’ Sen. Marco Rubio says yes

  In what should go down as one of the most bizarre days in recent U.S. Senate history, Marco Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida, a Cuban-American, introduced Tuesday an amendment to the immigration reform bill requiring English proficiency of all citizenship candidates.

• POLITICS

  President Barack Obama is coming to Miami Beach, and you’re paying part of the bill

  Miami area taxpayers are not reimbursed for the cost of providing security for presidential visits.

• Sarasota investigation

  9/11 family members demand the FBI ‘come clean’ about Sarasota Saudis

  Survivors and family members of those killed in the terror attacks say the FBI needs to make public details of its investigation into a Saudi family that left Sarasota hurriedly weeks before 9/11.
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  Intelligence Director declassifies law to explain massive phone, Internet surveillance

  President Barack Obama’s administration on Thursday defended a newly disclosed National Security Agency program that gathers telephone records of tens of millions of Verizon customers, authorized under a secret court order.

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