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Listen: A state senate subcommittee advanced a bill that requires transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond to their assigned gender at birth. This bill makes it a crime for transgender adults and a violation...

The Florida Senate passed a bill that would place new restrictions on public-employee unions.

Permitless carry in Florida The Florida Senate will deliver a final vote today on permitless carry, a controversial bill allowing Floridians to possess a concealed weapon in public without a license – or training. The...

The Florida Sheriffs Association will file a brief at the state Supreme Court to support Gov. Ron DeSantis against Andrew Warren.

The 6-week abortion bill will be voted on by the full Senate, and the bill provides support to non-medical anti-abortion centers.

Women's political activism in Ybor City, Florida and their fight against fascism at home and abroad during the time of the Spanish Civil War.

A Florida Senate committee considered a bill on Wednesday that would prevent referendums on amendments to local land-development regulations.

Abortion ban A panel of Florida senators listened to hours of testimony on a bill that would ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy yesterday. The bill comes after the Republican-controlled Legislature last year passed...

A judge backed the Department of Environmental Protection’s denial of a plan to drill an oil well in Florida's Big Cypress.

The Florida Senate on Thursday will take up a proposal that would prevent abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

The Hillsborough County School Board has expanded a proposed book ban county-wide as it voted 4-3 to remove the book, “This Book is Gay” from all middle school library shelves in Hillsborough County as of...

Listen: CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Johnathan Greenblatt, says that 2022 was a historic year for anti-semitism. “These incidents are an ugly manifestation of this growing belief and this normalization of anti-Semitic ideas, anti-Jewish growth,...