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Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who represents part of Pinellas County, is among the leading figures on a House subcommittee investigating a whistleblower's claims that the government knows more about unidentified flying objects than it has made public.
Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s latest foray in Congress: UFOs
The Republican from Pinellas County is helping lead a House investigation into UFOs and intelligence oversight.
DeSantis’ bad week: Campaign layoffs, a Nazi symbol and a fender bender
On Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis cut more than a third of his massive 90-plus-person staff, trimming 38 jobs, multiple news outlets reported.
His campaign is facing problems from money to messaging.
Does the DeSantis campaign face the same fate as Jeb Bush in 2016?
Former Gov. Jeb Bush, left, in background, watches as Gov. Ron DeSantis, Casey DeSantis and their children Mason, Madison and Mamie wave to the crowd during an inauguration ceremony at the Florida Capitol on Jan. 3 in Tallahassee.
There are similarities, and glaring differences, between the two Florida governors’ presidential campaigns.
Florida is getting opioid settlement money. Here’s how it’ll be spent.
Florida will receive more than $3 billion as part of a nationwide settlement with makers of opioids like OxyContin, to be dispersed throughout cities and counties to help combat opioid addiction.
Florida is poised to get about $3.2 billion over the next 18 years to help curb the state’s crisis.

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  1. Historically Black fraternity nixes Florida convention over DeSantis laws
    Earlier today• Politics
    In this 2017 photo, older and newer generations of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity pose for a photograph during the Hall-Archer-Pickard Naming Celebration at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. The oldest historically Black collegiate fraternity in the United States says it is relocating a planned convention in two years from Florida because of what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration's “harmful, racist and insensitive” policies towards African Americans.
  2. In Iowa, DeSantis sticks to familiar talking points amid campaign reboot
    Earlier today• Politics
    Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa's 2023 Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines on Friday.
  3. Will Florida high schools offer AP psychology? It’s a definite maybe.
    Earlier today• Education
    Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz Jr. speaks during a meeting of the State Board of Education on July 19, 2023, in Orlando. The board that day approved the Advanced Placement psychology course for high school students seeking college credit. However, many educators were under the impression that the course is not permitted in Florida because it includes discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation.
  5. Judge denies Disney request to dismiss lawsuit from board of DeSantis appointees
    Yesterday• Politics
    Park guests stroll past the statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, July 14 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. A Florida judge on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Gov. Ron DeSantis appointees against Disney’s efforts to neutralize the governor's takeover of Disney World’s governing district.
  6. St. Petersburg mayor remarks on employee survey after anonymous emails
    Yesterday• St. Petersburg
    St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch addresses the audience during the Juneteenth Celebration at the Woodson Museum, 2240 9th Ave S, on Monday, June 19, 2023 in St. Petersburg. The event included the new Black History Matters street mural presentation, speeches by city leaders, music spoken word, poetry and dance.
  7. To protect a mother: Will abortion exceptions survive a post-Roe world?
    Yesterday• Health
    Anya Cook's water broke when she was 16 weeks pregnant. She rushed to the nearest hospital but was refused an abortion, though doctors said the fetus was too premature to survive. She ended up in intensive care about 13 hours later after hemorrhaging during a miscarriage.
  8. Trump accused of asking staffer to delete camera footage in Florida classified documents case
    July 27• Crime
    An aerial view of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach. Trump is facing accusations that he and his aides asked a staffer to delete camera footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct the classified documents investigations.
  9. State says it’s set for trial in South Florida ‘ghost’ candidate case
    July 27• Politics
    Frank Artiles leaves the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami on March 18, 2021. Artiles faces campaign finance violations in a covert scheme to unseat Miami-Dade Democratic Sen. José Javier Rodriguez.
  10. Florida court to hear whether UF must refund students’ COVID-era fees
    July 27• Politics
    Century Tower sits at the heart of the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, which shut down early in the COVID-19 pandemic.
  11. Trump team meets with investigators ahead of possible Jan. 6 indictment
    July 27• Politics
    This exhibit from a video released by the House Select Committee shows President Donald Trump recording a video statement on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, from the Rose Garden. Trump is under investigation as part of a federal investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
  12. Did Florida’s enslaved learn beneficial skills? Here’s what they said.
    July 27• History
    One of the symbolic headstones in Oaklawn Cemetery, Tampa’s first public burial ground, representing the enslaved African Americans who were buried there.
  13. Faculty turnover at New College ‘not a loss for Florida,’ DeSantis says
    July 27• Education
    After Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointments to the New College board early this year, New College trustees ousted former school president Patricia Okker and replaced her on an interim basis with Richard Corcoran, a former Republican House speaker and state education commissioner.
  14. What do Florida’s Black history standards actually say? A closer look.
    July 27• Education
    The State Board of Education conducts its July 19 meeting before a crowd in Orlando, where Florida's new African American history standards were approved.
  15. What the Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act decision means for Tampa Bay
    July 27• Environment
    Mangroves populate an area on the eastern border of the Weedon Island Preserve in St. Petersburg on Tuesday.
  16. Senate GOP leader McConnell briefly leaves news conference after freezing up mid-sentence
    July 26• Nation & World
    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, is helped by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, after the 81-year-old GOP leader froze at the microphones as he arrived for a news conference, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday.
  17. DeSantis’ bad week: Campaign layoffs, a Nazi symbol and a fender bender
    July 26• Politics
    On Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis cut more than a third of his massive 90-plus-person staff, trimming 38 jobs, multiple news outlets reported.
  18. Another Florida university will change presidents, this time Florida Poly
    July 26• Education
    Florida Polytechnic University President Randy K. Avent announced he will be stepping down at the end of the 2023-24 academic year after a decade as the school's first leader.
  19. DeSantis campaign lays off 38, more than a third of total staff
    July 25• Politics
    Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa on July 14. The DeSantis presidential campaign announced it was laying off a number of staffers in a shakeup designed to make up ground against former President Donald Trump.
  20. Former Florida state Sen. Jack Latvala’s ethics case pushed to fall
    July 25• Pinellas
    Former Florida state Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, shown in 2017, faces an ethics investigation involving alleged sexual misconduct.
  21. Does the DeSantis campaign face the same fate as Jeb Bush in 2016?
    July 25• Politics
    Former Gov. Jeb Bush, left, in background, watches as Gov. Ron DeSantis, Casey DeSantis and their children Mason, Madison and Mamie wave to the crowd during an inauguration ceremony at the Florida Capitol on Jan. 3 in Tallahassee.
  22. ‘He runs Tampa’: Political player’s sex offender past detailed in records
    July 25• Crime
    John Robert Ring Jr. pictured, from left to right: in a Florida Department of Corrections mugshot and in mugshots from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office after his arrests in 2008 and March 2023.
  23. DeSantis uninjured in car crash on way to Tennessee campaign event
    July 25• Politics
    Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Family Leadership Summit on July 14 in Des Moines, Iowa. DeSantis was in a car crash Tuesday as he traveled to presidential campaign events in Tennessee but wasn’t injured, his campaign says.
  24. Moved to Florida? Expect the concerned check-ins from back home
    July 25• Florida
    An American alligator shows off its teeth as it basks in the sun in a South Florida wetlands area.
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