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Here are the important dates, deadlines, and how to vote in Florida's elections this year.

"If you're telling me it's incompetence instead of willingness I can accept that," said U.S. District Judge Michael Moor. "But we need competence."

The new rule redefines one key word: "harm." Conservation groups say it could be devastating for vulnerable species.

After removing hundreds of books, Clay County is debating the purpose of high school libraries. School officials called it modernization. Critics see it as the next phase of the book debate targeting fiction books.

Outraged by FIFA’s decision to delay a U.S. player’s suspension after Trump called Infantino asking him to review the matter, European lawmakers and human rights activists are calling for two separate ethics investigations into the leaders’ actions.

Florida Democrats believe they can win more seats this election. GOP leaders push back on their enthusiasm.

Florida is in the process of executing three of its oldest death row inmates back to back — each one older than the last.

As a state senator in 2025, Republican Jay Collins sponsored a bill that sought to indefinitely extend a June 2027 deadline for eligible data centers to apply for temporary tax exemptions. The bill died in committee.

Internal emails obtained by Inside Climate News show the state of Florida saw no need to stop the unfolding mass deaths of sloths at a planned Orlando tourist attraction.

A Tallahassee judge has set a two-day hearing beginning July 21 in Lt. Gov. Jay Collins' challenge of James Fishback's eligibility to run for Florida governor.