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Experts say it remains uncertain if the public’s waning support of the death penalty and its declining use will ultimately result in its abolition

The police report about Christian Ziegler was filed Oct. 4 about an incident two days earlier in a private home

The governors of Florida and California laid out their antagonistic visions for the future of the United States in an unprecedented television face-off

The development marks a particularly painful blow to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who struggled to emerge as the Trump alternative in the GOP primary contest

The company has shown a willingness to pull back investing an additional $17 billion over the next decade in central Florida, as planned

States are undertaking a sweeping reevaluation of the 94 million people enrolled in the government’s health insurance for the neediest Americans

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is a modest victory for special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which had vigorously rejected efforts to push off the trial beyond its scheduled start date of May 20, 2024

Before leaving the company to go to the White House, Ivanka Trump was the point person in establishing a lending relationship with Deutsche Bank’s private wealth management arm

Social workers said the tool’s matching recommendations often led them to unwilling parents. Virginia and Georgia dropped the algorithm after trial runs, noting its inability to produce adoptions

More than 30 out of about 390 employees have left raising concerns that decades of institutional knowledge is departing with them, along with a reputation for a well-run government

The world’s third-richest man leaves Seattle to be near his parents and the home base of Blue Origin, his space company

The takeover of the Walt Disney World’s governing district came after the company publicly opposed a state law banning classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades

‘Colonel Mike,’ the second of 11 suspects detained and charged in Miami, had pleaded guilty in September

The state will have to draw two new Black-majority districts in Georgia’s 56-member state Senate and five new Black-majority districts in its 180-member state House

Florida Governor and the other Republican candidates have largely lined up behind Israel and accused President Joe Biden of not doing enough to support the Israelis

The request for additional relief is based on estimates from communities hit by disasters this year, such as the August wildfires in Hawaii, hurricanes in Florida and flooding in California and Vermont

The restricted list includes Leonard’s thriller ‘Cuba Libre,’ set right before the 1898 Spanish-American War, and Frederick Forsyth’s ‘The Day of the Jackal’

The lawsuit filed in federal court in California also claims that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents’ consent, in violation of federal law

The $500 million in grants came from last year’s CHIPS and Science Act to stimulate investments in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotech

The Florida representative, part of the most hard-line wing of the Republican Party, has shown a keen desire for the spotlight in his six years in Washington

His story illustrates how both Republicans and Democrats are perceived by South Florida’s powerful bloc of Cuban American voters, which has influenced presidential elections for decades

This summer has shown that as global warming progresses, extreme weather events are becoming more intense and more frequent. A Miami-based reporter who covers hurricanes describes living under the constant threat

Attorneys for Wynn Resorts and the women who worked as manicurists and makeup artists filed the document Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas

Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh sent the plan back to the Florida Legislature with instructions that lawmakers should draw a new congressional map

Biden, when asked about his rival’s absence, said he was not disappointed by the turn of events, but welcomed the presence of Rick Scott, one of the state’s two Republican U.S. senators

Idalia made landfall Wednesday morning along Florida’s sparsely populated Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm, causing widespread flooding and damage before moving north to drench Georgia and the Carolinas

Idalia first hit Florida as a hurricane and then moved on to spark flooding in Georgia and South Carolina and heavy rains in North Carolina before moving out to sea Thursday