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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After Florida Democrats suffered massive setbacks in November — even worse than their usual election losses — the search was on for someone to blame.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida rejected an Advanced Placement African American studies course because it contains critical race theory and state leaders objected to its lessons on “Black queer studies,” Black feminist thought and “the Black Struggle in the 21st Century,” according to the Florida Department of Education.

The Hurricanes look to return to relevance behind the Miami born-and-bred coach who helped them win two titles as a player.

In a functioning Florida Legislature, state Rep. Randy Fine, R-Palm Bay, would be an outlier.

Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. It’s just not Mario Cristobal’s thing. He remembers his final game playing at the University of Miami, of course, a clunker after four mostly golden years and can define it in a word if asked.

Several months before he passed away last summer, Bobby Bowden was on the phone reminiscing about the heyday of college football in Florida.

MIAMI — In blasting the unprecedented FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home this week, Florida Republican leaders revived a familiar theme: The targeting of a former president and political foe is something that could only happen in a “Third-World country.”

MIAMI — Mario Cristobal has just finished his first fall practice of his first football season back home as head coach of the Miami Hurricanes. Inside the emptying echo of UM’s indoor practice facility on campus, Cristobal stands under the banners of storied former players in the rafters, including stars…

TAMPA, Fla. — In spring 2003, the culture wars came to the University of Florida.