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3 weeks ago | 
nationalgeographic.com | Amanda Canning |Jonathan Stokes
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The horse & the hidden peopleIn the shallows of Lake Sørvágsvatn stands a horse. A brisk wind has sent ranks of tight little waves across the water and they slap at his flanks with monotonous persistence. Behind him, the hills are smothered by dark clouds, the weakest hint of sunlight struggling to break out beneath them. Perhaps in protest at the weather, the horse has reared up, forelegs raised, head pulled back.
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1 month ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Jennifer Shutt |Dawn Kitterman |Jonathan Stokes
(iStock /Getty Images Plus)Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that he plans to veto a bill championed for years by victims of medical malpractice who are blocked from suing doctors and hospitals they claim are responsible for the deaths of family members.
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1 month ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Jennifer Shutt |Dawn Kitterman |Jonathan Stokes
Hundreds gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, May 15, 2025, to protest the Trump administration's effort to strip birthright citizenship from the Constitution. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared split Thursday hearing a major case in which the Trump administration defended not only the president’s order to end the constitutional right to birthright citizenship but also its efforts to limit nationwide injunctions.
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1 month ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Jennifer Shutt |Dawn Kitterman |Jonathan Stokes
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on Jan. 28, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Wednesday harshly criticized three Democrats who were accosted by federal immigration officials while protesting the opening of an immigrant detention center in New Jersey.
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1 month ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Jennifer Shutt |Dawn Kitterman |Jonathan Stokes
A “SNAP welcomed here” sign is seen at the entrance to a Big Lots store in Portland, Oregon. (Getty Images)The U.S. House Agriculture Committee approved, 29-25, Wednesday evening its portion of Republicans’ major legislative package that includes a provision that would shift to states some of the responsibility to pay for a major nutrition assistance program.
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1 month ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Jennifer Shutt |Dawn Kitterman |Jonathan Stokes
BRADENTON — The Manatee County Sheriff's Office announced this week that a former Manatee County teacher has been charged with molesting and committing battery on multiple elementary-aged students. On April 4, deputies were contacted after several children reported that 72-year-old Richard Silberman, then a teacher at Team Success, had touched them on a leg or shoulder in ways that made them feel uncomfortable.
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1 month ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Jennifer Shutt |Dawn Kitterman |Jonathan Stokes
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2025 2:40 pm BRADENTON — The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office will be featured on the next season of the reality TV show COPS. Production crews have been doing regular ride-alongs with Manatee County deputies to collect footage.
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1 month ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Jennifer Shutt |Dawn Kitterman |Jonathan Stokes
Image via of the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionFlorida has banned fluoride from its water supply. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed (SB 700) into law Thursday making Florida the second state (after Utah) in the country to ban municipalities from fluoridating their water supplies. The bill doesn’t include the word fluoride. Instead, it references any substances not included on a list of acceptable additives — which fluoride is not.
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1 month ago | 
thebradentontimes.com | Mitch Perry |Jennifer Shutt |Dawn Kitterman |Jonathan Stokes
Florida State University students marched to the Capitol on April 23, 2025, less than a week after a gunman opened fire on their campus, calling for legislation on guns and school safety. (Photo by Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix)The state’s universities will reevaluate door locks and lockdown protocol as a result of a statewide safety reevaluation prompted by the April 17 shootings at Florida State University that killed two people.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
nationalgeographic.com | Angela Locatelli |Jonathan Stokes
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “You froze time!” Fadi Hachicho is talking to a Harris’s hawk, but the bird has its head in the clouds. Caught in an updraft, it’s hovering on the wind high above us, still in the air, the sun playing on its russet feathers. When it flies on, it’s only to luxuriate in the thermals some more, circling in large, languid rings, flapping its wings only occasionally.
