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  • Florida is approaching 20,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19. As of the Sunday evening update from the Florida Department of Health, the state reports 19,895…
  • A Fort Myers Dentist expects people to start lining up as early as 2 a.m. today to receive free dental care as part of the 4th annual Smiles for the Community event. At least 30 local dentists, oral surgeons and hygienists from Estero to Punta Gorda to Winterhaven, will be giving their time and expertise to help people with their oral health in Fort Myers. Dentist Dr. Paul Uliasz of Lee Dental Care said he anticipates 300 people will show up, some in severe pain.
  • Rescue workers are trying to find survivors from Wednesday's earthquake that hit Indonesia, killing more than 1,000 people. BBC reporter Rachel Harvey, who is in Padang, a city of 900,000 people, says parts of the city are unaffected while other parts are devastated.
  • U.S. travelers continue to bolster Florida's tourism industry, while the state hopes to make up for a decline in Canadian visitors by drawing people from other countries.Visit Florida on Tuesday estimated 34.435 million people traveled to Florida from April 1 through June 30, up from 34.279 million people during the same period last year. The estimate for this year would be a second-quarter record, according to the state tourism-marketing agency.
  • The super typhoon ravaged the Philippines' northern islands on Monday. Flooding and landslides displaced more than 17,000 people.
  • New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose says we've been approaching automation all wrong. "We should be teaching people ... to be more like humans, to do the things that machines can't do," he says.
  • People with weakened immune systems who already got two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines can now get a third shot. But exactly who is eligible? Here's what we know so far.
  • In his new book, We Wait for a Miracle, Zaman writes about the struggle for health care by forcibly displaced people — refugees, the internally displaced, the stateless.
  • Three months since Fresno implemented its new law, police have made over 300 arrests, but only a few unhoused people are taking them up on drug treatment services
  • In the Barbershop this week, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Puerto Rican journalists Adriana De Jesús Salamán, Ezequiel Rodríguez Andino and Jay Fonseca.
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