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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Fort Lauderdale city leaders will host an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss how to respond to the state’s order to remove rainbow-colored crosswalks and other street art throughout Florida or risk losing millions of dollars in funding. The Department of Transportation under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered communities to remove the crosswalks and other street art …

University students might soon have something other than black-light posters to brighten their dorm rooms. Researchers have created glow-in-the-dark plants by injecting succulents with materials similar to those that make the posters light up. The fleshy plants shine as brightly as a night light, and can be made to do so in a wide variety of colours — a first …

The Florida Transportation Department on Sunday once again painted over a rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the Pulse Memorial after protesters filled it in with multicolored chalk. The Transportation Department initially painted the rainbow crosswalk black and white late Wednesday. The multicolored crosswalk was created in 2017 as part of a memorial for the 49 people fatally …

Hawaii opened the 2025 season with a thrilling 23-20 win over Stanford on Saturday to cap off Week 0 action. Hawaii kicker Kansei Matsuzawa drilled a 38-yard field goal with no time remaining to give the Rainbow Warriors their first win over a Power Four team since 2019.  Hawaii (1-0) had lost its last nine games against Power Four opponents …

Florida Paints Over Rainbow Memorial for Victims of Pulse Nightclub Shooting  The New York Times Defiant protesters repaint Pulse Memorial crosswalk in rainbow colors after state covers it  FOX 35 Orlando FDOT orders Tallahassee remove artistic crosswalks after federal order  WCTV Fort Lauderdale mayor, Miss Bouvèè speak out against Florida order to remove rainbow crosswalks — even at Pulse memorial  WPLG Local 10 Florida …

A crowd gathered at the site of Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub massacre Thursday evening to protest the state’s removal of a rainbow-colored crosswalk meant to honor the 49 people gunned down at the LGBTQ+ venue nine years ago. Joe Byrnes / Central Florida Public Media The crosswalk had been painted over during the night. But on Thursday, people colored it again …

Sphere is promising to take audiences over the rainbow, down the yellow brick road and into an entirely new type of cinematic experience. It’s “The Wizard of Oz” as you’ve never seen it before — not only digitally enhanced but expanded to fit the Las Vegas entertainment complex’s massive 160,000-square foot screen. “It’s pushing the visual medium,” Jane Rosenthal, one …

Florida paints over Pulse rainbow crosswalk without warning, officials say  The Washington Post Orlando officials condemn removal of rainbow crosswalk near Pulse nightclub mass shooting site as a ‘cruel political act’  CNN Florida Locals Defy Ron DeSantis By Restoring Pulse Rainbow Crosswalk  Newsweek Florida removes rainbow crosswalk honouring Pulse nightclub victims  BBC Rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub in Orlando painted over by state, mayor …

A rainbow crosswalk honouring the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida, Orlando, has been painted over by the state’s department of transportation. The crosswalk was part of a larger memorial to the 49 people who were killed after a gunman opened fire at the gay nightclub in June 2016, in what was then the largest mass shooting …

The rainbow crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando — which commemorated the 49 victims killed at the LGBTQ+ friendly nightclub in 2016 — was painted over Wednesday by the state, Mayor Buddy Dyer and others revealed Thursday. “We are devastated to learn that overnight the state painted over the Pulse Memorial crosswalk on Orange Avenue. But we know that …