News Service of Florida

Tampa-based U.S. District Judge William Jung issued an injunction in July to halt the rule, which was designed to help prevent discrimination in health care programs that receive federal money.

Saying it opposes “any form of academic censorship,” the United Faculty of Florida on Monday objected to a directive issued this month by university system Chancellor Ray Rodrigues about reviewing textbooks and other materials for “antisemitic material” or “anti-Israeli” bias.

Floridians Protecting Freedom is leading efforts to pass what will appear as Amendment 4 on the November ballot.

Rich Tatem is running in Manatee County’s House District 72, which became open when former Rep. Tommy Gregory, R-Lakewood Ranch, was named president of State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota.

Marion County Circuit Judge Robert Hodges on Thursday refused to vacate Cole’s death sentence.

During a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. the former president says he’ll announce his position on Amendment 4 at a later date.

Ken Griffin, CEO of the firm Citadel, in an opinion piece in the Miami Herald, calls the proposed amendment “a terrible plan to create the nation’s most expansive and destructive marijuana laws.”

A federal judge Friday permanently blocked restrictions that Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers placed on addressing race-related issues in workplace training — part of a controversial 2022 law that DeSantis dubbed the “Stop WOKE Act.”

The data Monday showed 2,972 reported deaths related to COVID-19, up from 2,740 in early June.

Floridians Protecting Freedom filed a brief that said the 1st District Court of Appeal should reject Florida's arguments that a circuit judge did not have authority to order redrafting the statement.