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Flood-fix rainchecks, targeting spiked drinks, red-faced over a red card, teen game-changers
48 minutes Posted Jul 8, 2026 at 6:36 pm.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $810 million from the state budget. A large portion of that involved water infrastructure and flood mitigation projects. How will that decision affect Florida residents?
Then, what if you could detect a rape-date drug in your drink using jewelry? A USF graduate student is joining forces with a former beach volleyball teammate to make it happen.
Also, the U.S. team was eliminated, but there are still aftershocks about President Trump’s connection to FIFA’s suspension of a red card suspension before the team’s final game.
To close, a pretty cool project by teens to keep peers away from “teen takeovers.”
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