/tags/2019 2019 en-US WLRN Fri, 03 Jan 2020 04:30:22 GMT /environment/2020-01-02/2019-was-not-a-good-year-for-manatees-boat-strikes-and-red-tide-took-a-toll Florida’s woeful water conditions may be driving manatees into new, more hazardous territory.In 2019, the number of manatees killed by boats reached a new… Fri, 03 Jan 2020 04:30:22 GMT /environment/2020-01-02/2019-was-not-a-good-year-for-manatees-boat-strikes-and-red-tide-took-a-toll Jenny Staletovich /2019-12-31/conservative-court-marijuana-and-toll-roads-2019-in-florida-politics It wasn’t the most important issue or event of 2019. Tue, 31 Dec 2019 13:33:12 GMT /2019-12-31/conservative-court-marijuana-and-toll-roads-2019-in-florida-politics Jim Saunders - News Service of Florida /npr-breaking-news/2019-12-31/immigration-raids-burger-wars-and-other-business-stories-you-may-have-missed-in-2019 Engineered meat, immigration raids on chicken plants, and the big target on the backs of big technology companies are some of the business stories that made headlines in 2019. Tue, 31 Dec 2019 10:06:00 GMT /npr-breaking-news/2019-12-31/immigration-raids-burger-wars-and-other-business-stories-you-may-have-missed-in-2019 Scott Horsley /show/latin-america-report/2019-12-30/latin-america-and-the-caribbean-2019-from-fire-in-the-streets-to-ire-in-the-skies It's hard to wrap your arms around everything that happened 2019 in Latin America and the Caribbean. It's even harder to find any good news — from the… Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:16:56 GMT /show/latin-america-report/2019-12-30/latin-america-and-the-caribbean-2019-from-fire-in-the-streets-to-ire-in-the-skies Tim Padgett /2019-12-29/2019-brought-stepped-up-efforts-to-counter-white-supremacist-violence Extremism monitors say 2019 was the year the country started taking serious measures to address a growing far-right threat. Sun, 29 Dec 2019 12:00:37 GMT /2019-12-29/2019-brought-stepped-up-efforts-to-counter-white-supremacist-violence Hannah Allam /2019-12-27/people-cant-even-agree-on-when-the-decade-ends In these binary times, it might not surprise anyone that people can't even agree on when one period of time ends and another begins. Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:10:41 GMT /2019-12-27/people-cant-even-agree-on-when-the-decade-ends Bill Chappell /2019-12-25/global-women-who-took-a-stand-in-2019-from-an-ebola-doc-to-2-beauty-queens We profiled women who were on the front lines of social change this year — from a doctor fighting Ebola in Congo amid gunfire to two forthright beauty queens. Wed, 25 Dec 2019 16:00:53 GMT /2019-12-25/global-women-who-took-a-stand-in-2019-from-an-ebola-doc-to-2-beauty-queens Emily Vaughn