Florida

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt contains scattered patches of seaweed on the open sea, rather than one continuous blob of sargassum

The administration of Florida is moving to forbid classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity from grades 4 to 12

A federal appeals court has directed a lawyer for Donald Trump to turn over to prosecutors documents in the investigation into the former president’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate

The bill signed by the Republican governor makes Arkansas the fourth state to place such restrictions at public schools

The case was one of many alleged human rights abuses that had soured relations between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President Joe Biden

The three men will receive mandatory life sentences for the shooting of the artist, who was killed in 2018 outside a South Florida motorcycle shop while being robbed of $50,000

The city imposed an overnight curfew that ended Monday morning and is considering another one next weekend

School boards and legislatures nationwide also are facing questions about books and considering making it easier to limit access

The bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Stan McClain would restrict public school instruction on human sexuality

This week, the farmers will walk for five days to cover a distance of 45 miles, leaving from one of the poorest communities in Florida to end up at a mansion-lined, oceanfront town

The Electronic Registration Information Center, known as ERIC, has been targeted by conspiracy theories tied to the 2020 election

Governor Ron DeSantis has proposed increasing penalties for human smuggling, while Governor Greg Abbott has a $4 billion border project called Operation Lone Star

Governor Ron DeSantis has indicated support for the restrictions, while a 15-week abortion ban he signed into law last year is still being challenged

Joe Cohn with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression says censorship is proliferating and putting America’s culture of individual freedoms at risk

The allies of the former president are accusing the Florida governor of violating campaign finance and ethics rules by running a shadow bid for the White House

While home prices appear to have peaked last summer, they still ended 2022 higher than they were at the end of 2021 and buyers face sharply higher borrowing costs than a year ago

A House subcommittee approved a bill that would make it easier to sue journalists for defamation, a priority for Republican Governor Ron DeSantis

Schroeder was the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado, and she went on to serve 12 terms

Advocates for open government are ringing alarms about plans by DeSantis’ administration that could make it harder to learn what public officials are doing and to speak out against them

Governor Ron DeSantis is showing support of a stricter ban on abortions introduced this week by state lawmakers, which would make it a crime to provide an abortion past six weeks’ gestational age

DeSantis’ planned appearances in Davenport and Des Moines mark his first trip to the leadoff voting state and come as anticipation over his expected White House campaign has been building

The New York bank seeks to hold Staley personally liable for any financial penalties that JPMorgan may have to pay

The five board members appointed by DeSantis hinted Wednesday at future controversial actions they may take

The governor will give his State of the State address, which will likely be as much about his national ambitions as it will be an assessment of Florida’s response to the pandemic and a series of crippling storms

The network is relying on a nearly 60-year-old Supreme Court ruling that makes it difficult to successfully sue media organizations for libel

The moves, encouraged by former president Donald Trump, are the latest indication of how conspiracy theories related to the 2020 election continue to ripple throughout the Republican Party

A federal judge issued bench warrants for the arrest of Olivia Pollock and Joseph Hutchinson III after the court was notified that they had tampered with or removed their ankle monitors