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Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidates called out Gov. Ron DeSantis for comments he made after an unprecedented FBI search Monday at the Palm Beach home of former President Donald Trump, calling it a “raid.” During a news conference Tuesday morning outside the governor’s mansion, Democratic candidate Nikki Fried said both political parties should tone down inflammatory […]

A Leon County circuit judge has appointed the Florida Department of Financial Services as a receiver for the insolvent Weston Property and Casualty Insurance Co. Judge Angela Dempsey issued an order Monday, after the department last week requested the appointment. Weston notified state regulators on July 27 that it was insolvent and agreed to go […]

More than 850,000 Floridians have cast ballots by mail for the Aug. 23 primary elections, according to numbers posted online Tuesday by the state Division of Elections. As of late Tuesday morning, a reported 858,303 vote-by-mail ballots had been cast, up from 791,140 a day earlier. Registered Democrats held an edge over Republicans, with Democrats […]

Saying “the countdown has begun,” 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams announced Tuesday she is ready to step away from tennis so she can turn her focus to having another child and her business interests, presaging the end of a career that transcended sports. In an essay released Tuesday by Vogue magazine, and a post […]

The FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, people familiar with the matter said, a dramatic and unprecedented escalation of law enforcement scrutiny of the former president. Trump, disclosing the search in a lengthy statement, asserted that […]

Three people are dead following a shooting and hostage situation at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting in Florida, police said. Officers responded to a report that a man was shot and a woman was being held hostage Monday night in Edgewater, which is near Daytona Beach. The other people at the Narcotics Anonymous meeting were able […]

A 35-year-old Florida man who was recording the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean died when a sand dune collapsed on top of him, sheriff’s officials said. A beachgoer saw a portion of the man’s body protruding from the sand on Hutchinson Island early Monday and called for help, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said in […]

U.S. border officials on Monday suspended Trump-era rules that required certain migrants to wait for their asylum hearings in Mexico. The suspension followed a federal court order that put an end to a lengthy legal back-and-forth over President Biden’s efforts to end the policy. In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it […]

More than 32 million people, including children, have food allergies in the U.S. Milk, soy, eggs, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, fish, and shellfish; the list goes on. One bite of the wrong food could kill them. New therapies were approved just as COVID-19 was hitting, so researchers worry that not everyone is aware of […]

In a growing challenge to Russia’s grip on occupied areas of southeastern Ukraine, guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv are killing pro-Moscow officials, blowing up bridges and trains, and helping the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets. The spreading resistance has eroded Kremlin control of those areas and threatened its plans to hold referendums in various […]