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Gov. Ron DeSantis can absorb some of the COVID-19 shock to state tax revenues by trimming next fiscal year’s budget of local projects, r ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis has rejected calls by Florida’s supervisors of elections to extend early voting to avoid meltdowns at the polls this s ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis is going back to court in yet another attempt to keep hundreds of thousands of Floridians from voting.
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans unveiled a police reform bill Wednesday that takes a markedly different approach to police reform effort ...
Discussions on better police standards and practices are underway, with police chiefs across the state leading efforts to build more tru ...
The Florida House and Senate on Wednesday sent the $93.2 billion state budget to Gov. Ron DeSantis, exactly two weeks before it is sched ...
Florida Chief Justice Charles Canady took another step Wednesday toward reopening the state’s trial courts in a COVID-19 world, resuming ...
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WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats have called for more federal aid for education as the nation’s schools prepare to reopen this fall.
Florida has reported another record day for new COVID-19 infections, with the Department of Health declaring Tuesday that its overnight ...
Top Florida Democrats were largely unmoved Tuesday by President Trump’s new executive order on police misconduct, saying it didn’t addre ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis intends to go all Walder Frey on the state budget this year.
Students, parents, and teachers won’t recognize what they find when Florida’s public schools reopen this fall, say state education leaders.
In a 2-1 ruling Monday, a federal appeals court rejected the pleas of pre-trial detainees trying to avoid COVID-19 infection inside a Mi ...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is suspending key environmental reviews during the pandemic and critics warn the move could furthe ...
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced closure of public schools and imposition of distance learning, has traumatized American teenager ...
Later this summer, on Aug. 27, Donald Trump will deliver a speech accepting the Republican Party nomination for re-election in Jacksonvi ...
After weeks of little to vague guidance from the state, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran announced millions ...
Campaign contributions reports for committees backing Gov. Ron DeSantis and members of the Florida Cabinet show continued sluggish fundr ...
The Junior Olympics will move to Brevard County in about three weeks, bringing thousands of young athletes to Florida during the COVID-1 ...
