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Republican Florida lawmakers Wednesday heard eight amendments from their Democratic colleagues aimed at reducing the potential negative impacts of a bill that would allow most Floridians to carry concealed firearms [...]

Buoyed by soaring revenues, the House is moving to spend $3.1 billion to reverse some of the changes made in 2011 to cut pension benefits for state workers. The House [...]

The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue [...]

Donald Trump took his arguments against former ally Ron DeSantis on the road Saturday. The former President regaled a crowd in Waco, Texas, about myriad issues he has with the man [...]

The Senate and House have some negotiating to do over how much money from Florida’s 2023-24 budget will go to the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. The House released its [...]

Is “America’s Governor” really a RINO member of the establishment? Some critics make that claim. On Thursday night, Ron DeSantis emphatically made the case to Eric Bolling of Newsmax that rumors of his RINO-ness [...]

The House has released a proposed health care budget for fiscal year 2023-24 that puts an emphasis on children’s health care coverage and training physicians. The proposed budget released Wednesday [...]

A Jacksonville City Council race marred by accusations of dirty campaigning is headed to a runoff, with Democrat Jimmy Peluso and Republican Joseph Hogan left to battle it out. Democrat John [...]

A bill that would ban abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy cleared the Florida Senate’s Health Policy committee Monday. That was the first of two Senate committees for one [...]

Miami Beach is declaring a state of emergency and instituting a midnight curfew starting Sunday night in response to two fatal shootings and an unruly crowd, according to a city [...]

Former Vice President Mike Pence is the latest Republican heavyweight to divorce himself from Ron DeSantis‘ foreign policy vision. During an appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday, Pence rejected DeSantis’ framing of [...]

The House has passed an omnibus bill to limit lawsuits against insurance companies and businesses. Filed by Reps. Tommy Gregory and Tom Fabricio, the bill (HB 837) cleared the chamber on [...]

Miami native Miguel “el Skipper” Quintero has held several titles in his 44 years: used car salesman, restaurateur, actor, tango dancer and, most recently, trapeze school owner. He can now [...]

Despite pleas from students, faculty and Democrats, a Senate bill targeting state universities and colleges’ diversity programs and faculty tenure moved a step closer to passage Wednesday. A Senate education [...]

Voters in Coconut Creek, Hillsboro Beach, North Lauderdale and Pembroke Park headed to the polls Tuesday.Several smaller cities in Broward County held municipal elections Tuesday. The results for those contests [...]

Those Floridians dealing with losses from hurricanes last year could see Congress deliver tax relief. U.S. Sen. Rick Scott and U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds introduced the Hurricane Tax Relief Act, [...]

The U.S. government took extraordinary steps Sunday to stop a potential banking crisis after the historic failure of Silicon Valley Bank, assuring depositors at the failed financial institution that they would be [...]

Fox News‘ Brian Kilmeade offered Ron DeSantis a softball interview on a baseball field in Dunedin, airing Saturday night while the Governor was in Nevada. But amid the gentle tosses were some [...]

Florida has deported enough illegal migrants in the last six months to fill more than half the seats in the Miami-Dade Arena, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis. While attempted crossings [...]

The amendment is necessary, Yarborough maintains, because of California legislation.One of the Session’s most controversial bills is getting an amendment from its sponsor before being heard Monday. Jacksonville Republican Sen. [...]

Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke in Davenport, alongside Iowa’s Governor Kim Reynolds, whom he called “America’s Governor” amid mutually admiring remarks. “This guy is a man on a mission,” Reynolds said, revealing [...]

The “kiddos” are all right. That’s one takeaway from a Jacksonville mayoral candidate’s new ad. Republican City Council member LeAnna Gutierrez Cumber is letting two of the people who know her best [...]

A law firm helmed by two leading investment fraud attorneys has launched an investigation on behalf of customers of popular cryptocurrency exchanges. CryptoLawyers.org is examining platforms, including Coinbase, Robinhood, and [...]

Criticism of a travel ban blocking Novak Djokovic from the upcoming Miami Open led to a return volley from the Joe Biden administration. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre fielded the serve from Gov. [...]

A House bill allowing charter school students to play in private school sports is now off the starting block but still trailing two similar, fast-tracked measures sprinting to floor votes. [...]