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A revived bill that wades into the abortion debate has passed its first Florida Senate Committee, but not without opposition.

Democratic Rep. Val Demings of Florida was one of the House impeachment managers in the Senate impeachment trial. She says Trump's impeachment was "totally worth it" despite the Senate's acquittal.

Jeb Bush gets the question at just about every public appearance these days: Will you run for president?The former Florida governor gives a well-worn…

When Linda Porter listens to Foreigner or Styx, she thinks of her own long-haired guitarist, Pete Thomas. Pete, her son, died 12 years ago in a New Por...

More than a half dozen authors with ties to the University of South Florida will appear alongside such literary heavyweights as R.L. Stine and Carl…

When most children in the foster care system turn 18, they’re on their own…Today, we’ll hear from a young man in a Miami supportive housing program...

PATILLAS, Puerto Rico – Jan Carlo Pérez’s family has a farm in Patillas, Puerto Rico. It’s a town of lush green hillside forests known as the Caribbean...

As lawmakers wrestled with a health-care Gordian knot in Tallahassee this week, Gov. Rick Scott held court over a Republican who's who in the land where…

A "child support-esque" formula could determine the amount of alimony divorcing spouses would receive under a radical overhaul of the state's alimony...

Leisure and hospitality jobs are down 249,400 from a year ago, and money hotels received through the Paycheck Protection Program to keep workers employed for two months has run out.

Inside a Venice airport hangar, about a dozen volunteers for Agape Flights have run into a problem. They need to load a generator on to a cargo plane but…

State officials say the overnight twisters damaged buildings and roads across multiple counties. Thousands are without power, and a state of emergency remains in effect.

Coronavirus has upended daily life, and for those who care for children, it can be hard to know what to say, or how to explain. WUSF’s Kerry Sheridan…

The former first lady used her prime-time speech during the opening night of the Democratic convention to rebuke President Trump and urge Americans to vote for Biden "like our lives depend on it."

For months, people 65 and older were the target of COVID-19 warnings. The message was: Stay home, especially if you have other health problems like high...

The trial comes after Florida voters in 2018 overwhelmingly approved an amendment to restore voting rights to most people with felony convictions. Then state lawmakers tried to scale the law back.

Online video games are proving popular as people look for a way to socialize during this time of social distancing. Some game developers are even changing games' rules to cater to the new reality.

Hospitals will be reimbursed by the federal government through the historic economic relief package to treat uninsured patients infected with the coronavirus, the president said.

The partial government shutdown is hurting the pocketbooks of 800,000 federal workers. But it also could affect consumer and business confidence down the line.

Tesla is creating a vast new plant near Berlin to build its electric vehicles. And the move threatens to upend Germany's traditional combustion engine car culture.

As the world continues to warm due to heat-trapping greenhouse gases, the public and private sectors are ramping up programs to pay farmers for trapping carbon dioxide in their soil.

Three years into #MeToo, three women have raised allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Vox senior reporter Anna North on how some men's behavior hasn't changed.

The Derek Chauvin trial is not technically about race. Yet attorneys have spent most of their time questioning potential jurors about their views on it. One Black juror's questioning illuminates why.

Opening statements begin Monday in the trial of an ex-policeman who was videoed with his knee on George Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes. It sparked a reckoning over race and justice in America.

The Tuskegee syphilis study is used to explain why Black Americans are hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine. But many say Tuskegee is used as an excuse not to address current racism in health care.