Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 3:22 p.m. Saturday, carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley riding atop on a Crew Dragon capsule. It's the first mission from U.S. soil in nine years. |   | |
 Although the protests started peacefully Saturday afternoon in front of the Windermere home owned by Derek Chauvin, the police officer charged in Floyd's death, by evening tensions rose downtown, culminating with police using tear gas to clear protesters off State Road 408. | | | |
 Protests of police violence against minorities intensified in Miami on Saturday night, forcing a closure of I-95 as protesters walked onto the highway and also clashed with police on NW 3rd Avenue, near the adjacent police station. At least one police cruiser was set on fire, and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez issued a 10 p.m. curfew. | | | |
 The number of positive COVID-19 cases in Florida hit 55,424 on Saturday as 34 new fatalities reported by the state health department brought the death toll up to 2,447. | | | |
 The switch to online classes at Florida universities has been frustrating -- and complicated by the idea that no one knows when this experiment in mass distance learning is going to end. Some experts have suggested it could be two years before campuses resemble a pre-pandemic world. | | | |
 Governors in several states called in National Guard troops as protests over repeated police killings of black men grew across the country. | | | |
 With two tropical storms already in the books, the chance of a third system to form ahead of the official start of the 2020 hurricane season rose to 60% on Saturday. | | | |
 ACT test cancellations upset families whose high school seniors are still trying to secure Bright Futures scholarships. | | | |
 President Donald Trump said that he will postpone until the fall a meeting of Group of 7 nations he had planned to hold next month at the White House despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. | | | |
 Older teens and young adults transitioning out of foster care during the pandemic are now facing financial and mental hardships. Many have lost their jobs, don't have a permanent home and spent April's lock down alone. Officials are concerned about the new or lasting effects it may have on those in and about to leave the foster system. | | | |
 Coronavirus had people shut in their homes and musicians with nowhere to play, but some took to the internet and found new audiences like Mike Lynch, the Baldwin Park balcony guitar guy. | | | |
 World of Beer Bar & Kitchen in downtown Orlando has unveiled the first-ever 24-foot Socially Distanced Flight of Beer. | | | |
 Orlando Pride and Orlando City players have posted numerous social media messages calling for an end to racial injustice as protests erupted in Central Florida and across the country following the death of George Floyd. | | | |
 Heading into Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at Bristol, Tenn., Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is encouraged in coming off his fourth-place finish Thursday night at Charlotte. | | | |
 Major-league teams have released hundreds of young players with the minor-league season in doubt because of the coronavirus pandemic. More than 200 players were cut Friday and more than 400 have been released over the last month. | | | |
 Last year, researchers simulating a pandemic found that health care workers could be rapidly fitted and trained to use the masks, and last month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published guidance on deploying them in response to the coronavirus. | | | |
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