Florida students who were traumatized by the 2018 Parkland school shooting — and last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University — are urging lawmakers in the Republican-controlled statehouse not to roll back gun restrictions they passed in the wake of the killing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity.

Some central Florida lawmakers say they are considering “all legislative, legal and executive options available” to stop business owners in a small town from voluntarily displaying rainbow decals in their windows.

Florida lawmakers have advanced proposals to strip Disney of its self-governing status, expand a controversial migrant transportation program and strengthen prosecutions tied to the state’s election police unit.

Gov. Ron DeSantis accused the NCAA of "fraud" for allowing Lia Thomas, a transgender athlete competing for the University of Pennsylvania, to compete in the 500-yard freestyle, though he did not name the swimmer.

A Republican proposal to slash the $600 weekly benefit boost for those left jobless because of the coronavirus shutdown could result in weeks or even months of delayed payments in some states. Washington was among the first states to implement the $600 benefit boost. John Bel Edwards said he doesn’t believe any states’ unemployment systems could handle a variable federal benefit tied to a person’s previous earnings. He has encouraged Louisiana’s congressional delegation to back a flat unemployment benefit instead. “The Republican proposal on unemployment benefits, simply put, is unworkable.

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Trump administration is scouting sites in central Florida, Virginia and Los Angeles for future facilities to hold unaccompanied minors who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. The permanent sites will minimize the need for unlicensed temporary detention centers, according to the letter. "The search for an addition of permanent licensed facilities is being pursued to reduce the potential need for temporary influx shelters in the future," the letter said. "We should be closing camps, not opening new ones," tweeted Democratic Florida Rep. Anna Eskamani, one of the Florida lawmakers who received the letter. Earlier this month, the department said it was scouting sites for facilities around Atlanta; Phoenix; Dallas; Houston; and San Antonio, Texas.