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Florida lawmakers return to Tallahassee March 2 with one, main goal: pass a budget for the upcoming fiscal year. But that's being done in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, and it's cut a more than $2 billion dollar hole in the state's finances. It's also strained education, healthcare, money for the economy and other areas, thus influencing how lawmakers will make decisions on issues tangentially related to the budget. In short: COVID is what's on the minds of lawmakers as they tackle everything from liability to elections.

Getting COVID-19 tests and vaccine to essential workers on commercial farms and in meatpacking plants requires more than a pop-up clinic miles away. A positive test can be financially devastating.

A fourth of the Florida Senate has already been infected with the disease, including the chamber's president and its top Democrat. It's unclear how many of the 120-member House has been infected.

Excitement was abundant during the landing of NASA’s newest Martian robotic explorer Perseverance earlier this month, giving high hopes to space enthusiasts that the United States could send humans outside of Earth’s orbit again in the near future. But new polling data suggests most U.S. adults don’t view human space travel to the moon or Mars as a high priority.

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, the former president said his successor had "the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history."

Donald Trump makes his first post-presidency speech at the annual CPAC conference.

The harassment allegations follow reports that Cuomo's office covered up the number of nursing home deaths from COVID-19.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Artemio Muniz, chairman of the Federation of Hispanic Republicans in Texas, about the future of the party's hold on that state.

Disinformation is not just affecting politics at the national level. It's eroding public trust in institutions.

From potential long-term rate hikes to repairs of broken pipes, Texans could be paying for years after the state's devastating blackouts.