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What the polls and the candidates keep getting wrong about the United States' largest minority group.
The GOP is hoping the ghosts of Florida past will tilt the race in Trump's favor. But Joe Biden's apparent electoral lead in numerous key states may insulate his win from such legal challenges.
As Joe Biden and Donald Trump spend the final day of the US 2020 election campaign in key battlegrounds – why a handful of states will be so crucial to the result.
In Florida and North Carolina, mail ballots cast by minority voters and Democrats are disproportionately likely to face rejection.
Russian agents reportedly placed malware in U.S. voter registration systems in 2016 and are actively interfering in the 2020 election. Here's the state of election cybersecurity.
A new study reports that baby Florida sea turtles are consuming large quantities of plastic waste during a critical early life stage at sea.
A close look at Florida's economy shows just how vulnerable the state and its population are to a pandemic, and some of the reasons state officials hesitate to take action.
The recent spike in new coronavirus cases in the US is not due to a second wave, but simply the virus moving into new populations or surging in places that opened up too soon.
Recent efforts to restore voting rights to the formerly incarcerated, a crucial Democratic constituency, could have important implications for the 2020 presidential election.
Release of GM mosquitoes in Florida is imminent. But a multidisciplinary team of scientists believe that more studies are needed first. They encourage a publicly accessible registry for GM organisms.
Justices have lent weight to state officials who want churches to remain closed until the public health crisis is over. But not every place of worship is following the rules.
One way in which Latino voters vary is where they or their forebears came from. In states like Florida, that difference matters.
Green iguanas are an invasive species that seem to be spreading and proliferating in Florida. Used to warmer temps, they switch into torpor mode when the mercury drops.
The gravity and force of this Category 5 hurricane that lashed the Florida Panhandle and other Southern states may never have fully registered on the public’s radar.
In just five Florida Panhandle counties, sea level rise could swamp more than 500 archaeological sites that tell the story of when and how Native Americans lived along the Gulf Coast.
Hotels in the Bahamas are helping the islands recover from the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Dorian, just as they did in Florida following Irma in 2017.
A filmmaker, her students and community partners create a multi-platform documentary and study guide to teach swamp literacy and care through a trip into the Everglades.
Rosselló's corruption is just the latest in a string of disasters for Puerto Ricans -- but it also created an opportunity for a stressed community to come together.
Could these extra hands do more for the nonprofits they assist?
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor, Director of Florida Sea Grant, University of Florida
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor in American Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Sharon Austin is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
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Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley
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Associate Professor and Head, School, Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology
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Michael Beck is a Friend of The Conversation.
AXA Chair in Coastal Resilience & Research Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Associate Professor of Geophysics, University of Florida
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Professor of Political Science, Pro Vice Chancellor of the Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of the Master's in Applied Intelligence, Georgetown University
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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