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Taylor Cook, 21, an activist with Students for a Democratic Society, leads chants outside a Florida House committee meeting on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022.
Student activists disrupt Florida 15-week abortion ban hearing
They said they didn’t get a chance to speak on the fast-moving bill modeled after Mississippi legislation.
Medical malpractice fight emerges again in Florida Legislature
A House subcommittee voted on Thursday to approve a bill that would allow parents of adult children to pursue pain-and-suffering damages in medical malpractice cases.
The debate centers on an unusual part of state law that involves wrongful death claims.
Supreme Court prospect Brown Jackson was ‘star in the making’ at her Florida high school
FILE - Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations, April 28, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Joe Biden has already narrowed the field for his first U.S. Supreme Court pick. One potential nominee is Jackson, 51. She attended Harvard as an undergraduate and for law school. Obama nominated her to be a federal trial court judge, and Biden elevated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Early in her career, she was also a law clerk for Breyer.  (Tom Williams/Pool via AP, File)
While the White House hasn’t announced a short list for the seat being vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer, Ketanji Brown Jackson is considered a leading contender.
Florida immigration debate renews with bill that targets companies transporting migrants
Migrants from Central America and Mexico await the outcome of their U.S. immigration court cases in a tent encampment near the Gateway International Bridge at the U.S.- Mexico border in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, on Oct. 1, 2019.
Much of the public testimony focused on the potential ramifications the proposed legislation would have on migrant children.

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  1. Senate passes bill ordering local governments to pay up if new rules hurt businesses
    Earlier today• Politics
    The bill requires that a business be operating in a city or county for three years before it is eligible to sue.
  2. Florida Senate passes strawberry shortcake bill
    Earlier today• Florida
    Florida already has a state pie — key lime — and the Senate on Thursday unanimously voted to make strawberry shortcake the official state dessert.
  3. Florida appeals court says no ‘legal right’ to force use of ivermectin for COVID patient
    Earlier today• Health
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  5. Student activists disrupt Florida 15-week abortion ban hearing
    Yesterday• Politics
    Taylor Cook, 21, an activist with Students for a Democratic Society, leads chants outside a Florida House committee meeting on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022.
  6. Florida Senate passes emergency order shield for churches
    Yesterday• Politics
    Diane Leahy prays with others before receiving the second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Monday, March 1, 2021, in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
  7. Florida may allow school-zone cameras. They work like red-light cameras.
    Yesterday• Education
    Should the bill be signed into law, there would be a 30-day “education period” to inform the public before it goes into effect.
  8. University president search exemption gains momentum in Florida
    Yesterday• Politics
    The campus of Florida Gulf Coast University. [WIKIMEDIA COMMONS]
  9. Medical malpractice fight emerges again in Florida Legislature
    Yesterday• Politics
    A House subcommittee voted on Thursday to approve a bill that would allow parents of adult children to pursue pain-and-suffering damages in medical malpractice cases.
  10. Supreme Court prospect Brown Jackson was ‘star in the making’ at her Florida high school
    Yesterday• Politics
    FILE - Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations, April 28, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Joe Biden has already narrowed the field for his first U.S. Supreme Court pick. One potential nominee is Jackson, 51. She attended Harvard as an undergraduate and for law school. Obama nominated her to be a federal trial court judge, and Biden elevated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Early in her career, she was also a law clerk for Breyer.  (Tom Williams/Pool via AP, File)
  11. Charge dropped against man who protested DeSantis briefing
    Yesterday• Politics
    Ben Frazier, the president of the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville, confronts a DeSantis aide ahead of the governor's news conference in Jacksonville on Jan. 4, 2022.
  12. FPL parent company did internal investigation in response to dark money controversy
    Yesterday• Politics
    Florida Power & Light CEO Eric Silagy.
  13. Florida Senate sponsor agrees to weaken preemption bill
    Yesterday• Politics
    Florida Sen. Travis Hutson, center, makes a point at a Senate Community Affairs Committee meeting during a legislative session, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
  14. Friend of Florida tax collector in Gaetz case pleads guilty
    Yesterday• Politics
    Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., listens during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. A former employee in the office of a Florida tax collector whose arrest triggered an investigation into U.S. Rep. Gaetz has pleaded guilty to fraud and drug charges. Court documents showed that Joseph Ellicott pleaded guilty on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
  15. What’s next for ex-St. Petersburg City Council members Amy Foster and Darden Rice?
    Yesterday• St. Petersburg
    Amy Foster and Darden Rice are moving on after two terms on the St. Petersburg City Council.
  16. Florida Democrats walk out of Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo confirmation hearing
    Yesterday• Politics
    Florida Surgeon Gen. Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, left, speaks at a news conference with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, right, on Jan. 3 in Fort Lauderdale.
  17. Clearwater City Council hopeful Jonathan Wade wants to champion neighborhoods
    Yesterday• Clearwater
    Clearwater City Council candidate Jonathan Wade, 66, says serving in public office is on his bucket list. “I’m a senior now, but I don’t think I have old ideas,” he said.
  18. Nancy Pelosi to seek reelection in House with Democratic majority at risk
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking here during her weekly news conference Thursday, said she'll seek reelection to her California House seat.
  19. DeSantis task force warns of Red Tide effect, but silent on cause
    Jan. 26• Politics
    Worker clean up dead fish kill in a canal in Apollo Beach. Red tide-triggered fish kills were reported in downtown Tampa. on Bayshore Boulevard, Apollo Beach and a MacDill Air Force Base earlier last summer.
  20. Florida Senate committee advances bill to set statewide condo inspections
    Jan. 26• Politics
    The partial collapse of Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside in June 2021 led Florida legislators to begin work on updating the state’s condominium regulations. A Senate committee advanced a bill Tuesday to impose inspection requirements statewide, including stricter standards for buildings near the coastline.
  21. Florida GOP bill would slash some school board members’ salaries
    Jan. 25• Politics
    The Hillsborough School Board during an August 2021 vote on whether to require masks for students and staff.
  22. Florida closes monoclonal antibody sites following Biden administration decision
    Jan. 25• Politics
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fields a question while attending a news conference at Pasco County’s Mike Fasano Regional Hurricane Shelter in Hudson on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, where he announced that monoclonal antibody treatments would begin for patients as an early treatment to prevent hospitalizations and to save lives.
  23. Faculty groups blast Florida bill to make presidential searches more secret
    Jan. 25• Education
    The presidential search committee at the University of South Florida met for the second time on Oct. 22. From left are member Jose Valiente, chairperson Mike Griffin, search firm leader Alberto Pimentel and member Oscar Horton.
  24. Bill would expand Florida doctors’ ability to refuse care based on beliefs
    Jan. 25• Politics
    Jeanette Jennings, mother of transgender teen advocate Jazz Jennings, speaks at a press conference in the Florida Capitol on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, against a bill that would make it a felony for doctors to provide minors with hormone therapy or to perform sex reassignment surgery.
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