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Carl Icahn has officially moved left New York City for Sunny Isles Beach in Florida. The billionaire activist investor has entered into a lease for a 23,463-square-foot office in the new Milton Tower, becoming its first tenant. He now occupies about one-fifth of the building, including both the penthouse and the 12th floor, Milton Tower …

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday rejected a plan from the Tampa-area school district to begin the school year with online classes only, insisting that schools must allow parents to send their children back to school if they so choose. “Some of this stuff is just not debatable anymore,” DeSantis said during a Monday roundtable at a …

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Luke Combs 🎤 (@lukecombs) on Aug 2, 2020 at 5:42am PDT Luke Combs is a married man. On Saturday, the 30-year-old country crooner married fiancée Nicole Hocking at their home in southern Florida, a rep for Combs confirmed Sunday to Page Six. “Despite the threat of …

Oh, the horror! Universal Studios in Orlando has officially said “Boo!” on 2020 as they make the difficult decision to cancel their biggest annual event: October’s popular Halloween Horror Nights. This year would have been the 30th anniversary for the late-night fright fest, wherein ghoulishly costumed guests and Universal staffers go on parade. The park …

Tom Brady has finally arrived at his new home. For the first time since signing with the Buccaneers this offseason, Brady reported to the team’s training facility at 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning. In a video posted by ABC Tampa, the six-time Super Bowl champion can be seen wearing a mask and entering a trailer to …

Florida’s largest teachers union sued Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday to overturn an emergency order requiring schools to offer in-person instruction five days a week next month, even as cases of COVID-19 surge in the state. In the suit, filed in circuit court in Miami-Dade county, the Florida Education Association accuses the governor and several …

Florida set a record for the highest single-day total of new coronavirus cases on Sunday, with 15,299 new infections, surpassing the previous high of 12,274 cases on April 4. Some of the increase in cases is in part due to an increase in testing —  Florida doubled its testing over the last month to 50,000 …

Disney says it will enforce a strict policy on wearing masks as it prepares to reopen Disney World on Saturday — but there’s a notable exception that’s raising eyebrows. The Orlando, Fla.-based theme park has designated a handful of “relaxation zones,” where guests are allowed to remove their face coverings — and some of them …

A Florida sheriff plans to deputize every lawful gun owner in the county amid ongoing nationwide protests. On Tuesday, Sheriff Darryl Daniels released a video discussing his stance towards violence seen in recent protests. If protests become too much for his deputies to handle, the sheriff said he intends for those being deputized to “stand …

Florida on Friday ordered all bars to close as cases of the coronavirus in the state continue to spike. “Effective immediately, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation is suspending on premises consumption of alcohol at bars statewide,” Secretary Halsey Beshears of Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation announced on Twitter. Florida reported a record daily …