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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. 鈥?Florida is emerging as an epicenter of the nations polarizing politics in the final days of the 2018 campaign.In the closely contested campaign for governor, President Donald Trump and GOP nominee Ron DeSantis have used what has been called racially coded language to slam Democrat Andrew Gillum. The battles for the governors mansion and a key U.S. Senate seat are playing out in communities still recovering from a killer hurricane and one of the nations deadliest school shootings.Virtually every hot-button cultural issue tearing at the nation 鈥?including guns, race and the environment 鈥?is unfolding in a deeply personal way here.Thats a sharp change in a state where elections notoriously come down to the wire. Politicians in both parties traditionally focus on winning over moderat stanley cup e voters, especially those living along Interstate 4 in the shadow of Disney World, to eke out a win. Not so in the Trump era as each side scrambles to mobilize its strongest supporters. This election is truly a choice between results and resistance, Trump told a crowd during a rally in southwest Florida. This is really an election between greatness and gridlock. Trumps visit is just one of two stops planned this week to bolster DeSantis and Gov. Rick Scotts U.S. Senate campaign.The Democrats are out in force in the Sunshine State, as well. Former President Barack Obama wi stanley kubek ll visit stanley quencher Democratic-vote-rich South Florida, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders visited college campuses mid-wee Nton NYPD: 1 officer killed, 1 wounded in Harlem shooting
JERUSALEM 鈥?Israeli police clashed with rock-throwing Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem on Friday as thousands mourned at the funeral for an Arab teen who Palestinians say was killed by Israeli extremists in a revenge attack.Tensions were also high along Israels southern border as Palestinian militants fired rockets and mortars from the Gaza Strip into Israel. And the Israeli military said its troops opened fire after spotting two Palestinians planting exp stanley usa losives near the border fence.But after days of retaliatory airstrikes, the Israeli military did not immediately respond to the rocket attacks, in what appeared to be an attempt to allow an unofficial truce to take hold. An ambulance carried the body of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, wrapped in a Palestinian flag and traditional headscarf, to a mosque in the east Jerusalem neighborhood where he lived. Then mourners carried the open casket through the crowd to a cemetery.During the procession, scores of masked Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli police on duty nearby, and they responded with stun grenades, spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. He said more than 2,000 people attended the funeral.Rosenfeld said police also clashed with h stanley cup undreds of Palestinian protesters in other neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city, which has been rocked by violence since Abu Khde stanley cup irs burned body was found Wednesday in a forest after he was seized near his home.At least 13 Israeli officers were injured by rock-throwers, with six taken to |
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