Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Florida

After DeSantis tussle, Disney World will host a major summit on gay rights

The Walt Disney Company will host a major conference promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in the workplace in Central Florida this September, gathering executives and professionals from the world’s largest companies in a defiant display of the limits of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign against diversity training.

Miami Herald

Tekashi 6ix9ine rushed to hospital after brutal attack in gym bathroom

The controversial rapper was assaulted by a group of men in Florida

Evening Standard

Uh-oh. A new tropical mosquito has come to Florida. The buzz it's creating isn't good

Little is known about the mosquito species known as Culex lactator. But it belongs to a group of mosquitoes known to carry diseases and researchers are worried about what will happen.

WEKU

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

What’s red tide doing to Florida’s marine life? ‘We really need to get our act together.’

New surveys of seagrass on Florida’s Gulf Coast shows the vital marine plant is continuing to lose ground at a rapid pace in Tampa and Sarasota Bay.

Miami Herald

Could Ron DeSantis stop Trump’s arrest?

Despite what Trump’s MAGA allies say, the Florida governor likely has little authority to stop the former president’s extradition from their mutual home state. Eric Garcia and Andrew Feinberg write

The Independent UK

Tristyn Bailey’s family share heartbreaking new photos as classmate killer sentenced to life

Youngster was stabbed more than 100 times in May 2021 by her classmate Aiden Fucci, who is now 16

The Independent UK

DeSantis doubles down on Trump criticism in rare Piers Morgan interview

The Florida governor is finally punching back.

Axios

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Florida rule would expand so-called ‘don’t say gay’ to 12th grade

ORLANDO, Fla. — The DeSantis administration next month could effectively bar all public school teachers from providing classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity, a move that would expand Florida’s controversial 2022 law and go even further than the legislation Republican lawmakers are pushing in Tallahassee this spring.

Orlando Sentinel

Ron DeSantis doubles attacks on ‘dramatic and chaotic’ Trump

Florida governor seen as biggest rival to former president for 2024 GOP presidential nomination

The Independent UK

Letter From America Finally Arrives In UK – 80 Years After It Was Mailed

When the letter came at The Sands Meadows nursing facility, manager Kevin Beattie, 39, found it to be dated October 5, 1942.

Zenger

Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen recovering from attack outside hotel

Allen, who was in South Florida to perform a show at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, was attacked while taking a smoke break outside the the Four Seasons hotel.

Chicago Sun-Times

Donald Trump Jr unloads on Ron DeSantis after he failed to back his father: ‘Owned by the billionaire donors’

Former president Donald Trump Jr’s son Donald Trump Jr blasted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for not defending his father enough as the former president faces indictment and potential extradition from the state.

The Independent UK

Deadly drug-resistant fungus has spread to most U.S. states

Cases have been recorded in more than half of U.S. states over the past 12 months, with Nevada, California and Florida reporting the most infections.

Fortune

Former President Trump claims he will be arrested today, calls for protests

What Trump's 'arrest' claim says about his hold on politics and the 2024 election

WEKU

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reason

The FTC Is Closing In on Amazon

Plus: "No such thing" as a "harmless drag show" says university president, aggressive code enforcement in Florida, and more...

Tribune News Service

Florida’s century-old Sunshine Laws under duress as DeSantis tries to redefine them

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Two years ago, Orlando television reporter Mike DeForest requested some routine travel and budget expenses from a state agency that had given him contractor license records within days, but this request took more than three months. He decided to ask why, so he asked for more records.

WEKU

What Trump's 'arrest' claim says about his hold on politics and the 2024 election

Donald Trump claimed on social media that he will be arrested on Tuesday and called for mass protest. His unfounded claims showed his continued influence on the Republican Party.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Undercover agents saw nothing ‘lewd’ at Orlando drag show. Florida is going after venue anyway

When the historic Plaza Live theater in Orlando hosted an event last December called “A Drag Queen Christmas,” the show drew a full house, noisy street demonstrators — and a small squad of undercover state agents there to document whether children were being exposed to sights that ran afoul of…

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: With defamation bill, DeSantis attacks free speech by the media and keeps Floridians in the dark

In the “free state of Florida,” Gov. DeSantis and Republican legislators want to gut free speech.

Tribune News Service

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visiting Michigan in April

DETROIT — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom some Republicans are encouraging to seek their party's presidential nomination in 2024, is scheduled to visit the battleground state of Michigan in April, according to an invitation distributed by the Midland County GOP.

Tribune News Service

As bailiffs seize jets from Canadian airline, Boeing order in the balance

In the early morning Canadian cold on March 11, the beginning of spring break for school-age kids in Ontario, families duly assembled at the Region of Waterloo International Airport west of Toronto to fly on Flair Airlines to the sun in Orlando, Florida.

Tribune News Service

Bill allowing death penalty for child rapists in Florida gets bipartisan support

A bill that would challenge existing Supreme Court precedent by allowing the death penalty for people who sexually batter young children moved through its first committee in the Florida Senate with a unanimous vote on Monday.

The Independent UK

Twp missing Florida boaters found dead in lake near Legoland

Authorities say they've recovered the bodies of two boaters, nearly two days after they went missing in an accident on a Florida lake near the Legoland theme park

Miami Herald

Skipper drank, gave teens alcohol before deadly Biscayne Bay crash, lawsuit alleges

MIAMI — The driver of the boat that crashed off the Upper Florida Keys over Labor Day weekend, killing one teenage girl and permanently disabling another, was drinking that day and supplied the teens and their friends with alcohol, according to a new lawsuit filed by the injured girl’s family…

Miami Herald

Restricting pronoun use in schools gets early backing in Florida Senate

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republican lawmakers say Florida school employees should not be allowed to call students by pronouns that differ from those given to them at birth — even in cases when a parent is OK with it.

1 … 477 478 479 480

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

The Walt Disney Company

153 stories

University of Florida

120 stories

LEGOland

106 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.