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The fired Florida Health Department employee in charge of the state's COVID-19 response website has a lurid past including three arrests, a torrid affair with her student and being fired from her previous university teaching job, a DailyMail.com investigation can reveal. Rebekah Jones, 30, claims she was asked to leave by health officials this month because she refused to fudge coronavirus infection numbers. But a different picture has now emerged after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that Jones was canned because of insubordination and called her 'disruptive.' A DailyMail.com investigation has revealed Jones, a married mother-of-two, was fired from Florida...

Ancient civilisations in Mexico developed a writing system as early as 2,000 years ago, new evidence suggests. The discovery in the state of Veracruz of a block inscribed with symbolic shapes has astounded anthropologists. Researchers tell Science magazine that they consider it to be the oldest example of writing in the New World. The inscriptions are thought to have been made by the Olmecs, an ancient pre-Columbian people known for creating large statues of heads. The finding suggests that New World people developed writing some 400 years before their contemporaries in the Western hemisphere. ...... "I think it could...

Students constantly hear the conservative outcry against liberal professors in universities. “Why don’t they just teach the subject? Why are they trying to indoctrinate students with their ideological beliefs?” These are questions routinely asked by conservatives, who are concerned with what students are facing in college. However, after 3 years at Florida State University I had never encountered the typical liberal professor—not the ones you read about or see on television. I knew they existed; Ward Churchill and Jay Bennish were evidence to that fact. Sure, I had professors that were obviously liberal, and would make comments such as, “Jimmy...