DeSantis marked his final State of the State address kicking off Florida's 2026 legislative session talking about illegal immigration, election integrity and more.

The Florida governor touched on his priorities for the legislative session, though he went into little detail and did not announce major new initiatives.

Republican leaders offered few clues about what will pass in the coming weeks of the legislative session and downplayed divisions between the House and Senate.

"Homelessness, or the state of unhoused, is not in and of itself a crime," an attorney for Winter Haven wrote in response to a violation notice from the Attorney General’s Office.

So far, top candidates also include Republicans Byron Donalds, Paul Renner and James Fishback and Democrats David Jolly and Jerry Demings.

Dozens of Democratic House members, including all eight Florida Democrats, are asking the Trump administration to restore Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants in the wake of last Saturday's U.S. military strikes on the country.

A lawsuit filed earlier this week by incumbent Apopka Mayor Bryan Nelson accuses his opponent, Orange County Commissioner Christine Moore, of failing to qualify for the race.

The U.S. capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro early Saturday has many Central Floridians feeling nervous about what’s to come.

In a Jan. 3 press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said the U.S. would "run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition." We fact-checked Trump’s and Rubio’s statements from the press conference.

President Trump says the United States conducted a strike in Venezuela and captured that country's president, Nicolás Maduro along with his wife, Cilia Flores.

President Trump claimed overnight that the United States carried out airstrikes in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro.

Sen. Tom Leek’s bill, which is filed for the legislative session that will start Jan. 13, addresses a variety of issues, such as establishing a “right” for parents to control children’s interactions with artificial intelligence.