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The former president is facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed up by a Manhattan grand jury

The U.S. Census Bureau released its latest population estimates on Thursday

Wildlife officials said Wednesday that just under 400,000 pounds of lettuce was provided to hundreds of manatees at a warmwater power plant site along the east coast

Mass shooters have killed hundreds of people throughout U.S. history in realms like stores, theaters and workplaces, but it is in schools and colleges where the carnage reverberates perhaps most keenly

As Trump lashes out, DeSantis’ growing coalition is eager to highlight the contrast between the twice-impeached former president and the big-state governor

The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece invited parents and students from a Tallahassee charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt contains scattered patches of seaweed on the open sea, rather than one continuous blob of sargassum

The administration of Florida is moving to forbid classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity from grades 4 to 12

A federal appeals court has directed a lawyer for Donald Trump to turn over to prosecutors documents in the investigation into the former president’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate

The bill signed by the Republican governor makes Arkansas the fourth state to place such restrictions at public schools

The case was one of many alleged human rights abuses that had soured relations between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President Joe Biden

The three men will receive mandatory life sentences for the shooting of the artist, who was killed in 2018 outside a South Florida motorcycle shop while being robbed of $50,000

The city imposed an overnight curfew that ended Monday morning and is considering another one next weekend

School boards and legislatures nationwide also are facing questions about books and considering making it easier to limit access

The bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Stan McClain would restrict public school instruction on human sexuality

This week, the farmers will walk for five days to cover a distance of 45 miles, leaving from one of the poorest communities in Florida to end up at a mansion-lined, oceanfront town

The Electronic Registration Information Center, known as ERIC, has been targeted by conspiracy theories tied to the 2020 election

Governor Ron DeSantis has proposed increasing penalties for human smuggling, while Governor Greg Abbott has a $4 billion border project called Operation Lone Star

Governor Ron DeSantis has indicated support for the restrictions, while a 15-week abortion ban he signed into law last year is still being challenged

Joe Cohn with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression says censorship is proliferating and putting America’s culture of individual freedoms at risk

The allies of the former president are accusing the Florida governor of violating campaign finance and ethics rules by running a shadow bid for the White House

While home prices appear to have peaked last summer, they still ended 2022 higher than they were at the end of 2021 and buyers face sharply higher borrowing costs than a year ago

A House subcommittee approved a bill that would make it easier to sue journalists for defamation, a priority for Republican Governor Ron DeSantis

Schroeder was the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado, and she went on to serve 12 terms

Advocates for open government are ringing alarms about plans by DeSantis’ administration that could make it harder to learn what public officials are doing and to speak out against them

Governor Ron DeSantis is showing support of a stricter ban on abortions introduced this week by state lawmakers, which would make it a crime to provide an abortion past six weeks’ gestational age

DeSantis’ planned appearances in Davenport and Des Moines mark his first trip to the leadoff voting state and come as anticipation over his expected White House campaign has been building