Attorney general Rob Bonta says he’s looking into whether any crimes may have been committed in what could be the latest group to have been moved from a Republican-led state to one led by Democrats
Many trans adults in the state are now facing tough choices, including whether to uproot their lives so that they can continue to access gender-confirming care
People have given $200,000 since January to fundraisers on GoFundMe started by trans people seeking to leave Florida, according to data from the platform
The recording is incriminating evidence in the investigation into classified documents kept by the former president in his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida
The court took up affirmative action in response to challenges at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. Lower courts upheld admission systems at both schools, rejecting claims that the schools discriminated against white and Asian-American applicants
Scot Peterson could get a nearly 100-year sentence if convicted of felony child neglect in a trial stemming from the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead in 2018
Recovery after the Category 5 storm is far from complete in hard-hit Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel and Pine Island, with this year’s Atlantic hurricane season officially beginning June 1
The Florida governor’s showdown with the former president will define the presidential primaries and the future of the political group. While the real estate magnate is leading in the polls, he knows that trends can quickly change
The candidate for the Republican presidential nomination insists books aren’t actually being ‘banned’ in his state’s schools, preferring to call the forced removal of some books ‘curation choices’
The 44-year-old governor formally launched his campaign Wednesday during an online conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, but the audio stream crashed repeatedly
Florida governor touts himself in video as the candidate of the resurgence with an apocalyptic message, but without naming Trump
“Robbing children of the chance to find their voices in literature is a violation of their right to free thought and free speech”, the poet wrote on Facebook in reaction to the news
The Republican Governor of Florida revealed his decision in a Federal Election Commission filing before an online conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk
Last weekend, the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, issued its advisory warning that recent laws and policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are ‘openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals’
In choosing Twitter, the Florida governor is taking a page out of the playbook that helped turn businessman-TV celebrity Donald Trump into a political star
The new law applies to land near military installations and critical infrastructure and also affects citizens of Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Russia, and North Korea
The NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens, a Latino civil rights organization, and Equality Florida, a gay rights advocacy group, all issued travel advisories for the Sunshine State
Missouri and Nebraska proposals are poised for action as well, and could add to the list of at least 17 states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender affirming care for minors
The announcement follows a year of attacks from the Republican governor and the state’s legislature, with Disney filing a First Amendment lawsuit against him and other officials last month
DeSantis chose a Christian school Wednesday to sign the bills, which also restricts pronoun use in schools and force people to use the bathroom corresponding with their sex at birth
The federal lawsuit filed Wednesday marks the latest opposition to a policy central to Governor Ron DeSantis’ agenda as he prepares to run for president
Andrew Gillum is a former Tallahassee mayor who sought to become the first Black governor in Florida history when he ran in 2018 and lost against Ron DeSantis
The latest move builds on the governor’s larger push to shape Florida’s education system through regulating how schools deal with subjects such as race and gender
University of South Florida professor Joseph Dituri spent his 74th day underwater Saturday in a Key Largo lodge for scuba divers
The measure signed Wednesday is part of DeSantis’ plan to harden Florida’s immigration laws. DeSantis regularly heaves criticism on federal border policy and takes a hard-right stance geared toward Republican primary voters
It has been updated with developments since the entertainment giant nearly two weeks ago sued DeSantis and a new oversight board for the Disney World governing district
The award-winning Cuban journalist and author believes that the end of the dictatorship on the island “is already happening.” In a conversation with EL PAÍS, he laments the fact that leftist governments condemn the Nicaraguan and Venezuelan regimes, but don’t speak out against the dictatorship in his own country
