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At least four people have died in mass killings once every six and 1/2 days this year. The numbers exclude perpetrator deaths.

Twenty-five U.S. jurisdictions have legalized the drug, while others have only decriminalized. If you’re traveling, make sure to avoid legal issues

The Board of Education approved a ban on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding the law that bans those lesson up to grade 3

The new board wants to prohibit mask mandates and Covid-19 vaccine requirements in an evolving showdown between the Republican governor and the world’s best-known entertainment company

The ban would give Governor Ron DeSantis a key political victory among Republican primary voters as he prepares to launch a presidential candidacy

The actor best known as a star of the network’s television show ‘Drake & Josh’ was found hours after authorities in Florida asked for the public’s help to find him

A fight is developing in Florida’s legislature over a measure that would allow fire stations and hospitals to install boxes where distressed mothers could leave their unwanted newborns

The Florida governor’s approach displays his willingness to leverage the powers of his office to notch political wins and punish political enemies

State Senator Josh Kimbrell said that he would host DeSantis for an event on April 19 in Spartanburg, in South Carolina’s heavily Republican Upstate

The early drafts of the analysis showed that catching COVID-19 could increase the chances of a cardiac-related death much more than getting the vaccine, but that information was missing from the final version put out by the Florida Department of Health

The plane had just taken off from Venice Airport when it crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. All passengers lost their lives

The vote prompted demonstrations at the state’s capital that led to the arrest of the leader of the Florida Democratic Party and a state senator

The law means training and a background check will not be needed for people to carry concealed guns in public. The state now has nearly three million permit holders

The former president is facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed up by a Manhattan grand jury

The U.S. Census Bureau released its latest population estimates on Thursday

Wildlife officials said Wednesday that just under 400,000 pounds of lettuce was provided to hundreds of manatees at a warmwater power plant site along the east coast

Mass shooters have killed hundreds of people throughout U.S. history in realms like stores, theaters and workplaces, but it is in schools and colleges where the carnage reverberates perhaps most keenly

As Trump lashes out, DeSantis’ growing coalition is eager to highlight the contrast between the twice-impeached former president and the big-state governor

The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece invited parents and students from a Tallahassee charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign

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