FLORIDA NEWS

Florida Today: Planners to study Brevard high-speed rail station sites

What would the best site for an All Aboard Florida passenger rail station between Cocoa and the Indian River County line?

Sunshine State News: Florida Senate will look different after 2016 elections

The Florida Senate saw almost no changes in 2014 but 2016 will be a far different story as recent events show

NATIONAL NEWS

New York Times: Funeral for muslims killed in Chapel Hill draws thousands

RALEIGH, N.C. — The three friends drove here Thursday from Blacksburg, Va., 190 miles to the north. Dressed in hijab and fashionable dresses, carrying a fabric floral arrangement in a gold-colored pot, they came for the funeral of the three Arab-American students who were gunned down at their home a couple of days earlier.

Washington Post: McConnell in tough spot over no-shutdowns pledge

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, less than six weeks into unified GOP rule on Capitol Hill, is on the verge of seeing his most adamant pledge go up in smoke.

ABC News: Alabama police officer arrested, accused of injuring Indian man in dashcam video

A police officer in northern Alabama was arrested Thursday amid accusations he badly injured an Indian man who was visiting relatives.

New York Times: David Carr, critic and champion of media, dies at 58

David Car, a writer who wriggled away from the demon of drug addiction to become an unlikely name-brand media columnist at The New York Times, and the star of a documentary about the newspaper, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 58.

Mr. Carr collapsed in the Times newsroom, where he was found shortly before 9 p.m. He was taken to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

WORLD NEWS

Washington Post: Afghanistan’s insurgency grows more complex

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan — The Taliban in this northern province allows girls to attend school. It doesn’t execute soldiers or police. Its fighters are not Pashtun, the main ethnic group that bred and fueled the insurgency. Some members are even former mujahideen, or freedom fighters, who once despised the Taliban and fought against its uprising.

Reuters: Greece promises to do ‘whatever we can’ as debt talks cheer markets

The Greek government promised to do “whatever we can” to secure a deal with its international creditors next week, cheering investors as experts from both sides began technical talks on Friday to lay the ground for an accord.

Reuters: Fighting rages in run-up to Ukraine ceasefire

Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels fought fiercely across the east of the country on Friday despite a new peace deal brokered by Germany and France.