The Supreme Court keeps on hold efforts in Texas and Florida to regulate social media platforms

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday kept a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. The justices returned the cases to lower courts in challenges from trade...

The Supreme Court keeps on hold Florida and Texas laws seeking to limit how social media platforms regulate user content

More than a hundred Haitian migrants arrived in a sailboat off the Florida Keys

MIAMI (AP) — A group of more than a hundred Haitian migrants arrived in a sailboat off the lower Florida Keys on early morning Wednesday, local and federal officials said. The boat arrived about 100 yards (91 meters) away from a condominium in Key West at 4:00 a.m., and shortly...

Editorial Roundup: Florida

Orlando Sentinel. June 14, 2024. Editorial: Supreme Court rejects truth and justice by upholding the suspension of Monique Worrell The Florida Supreme Court set a terrifying precedent last week w hen upholding the suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell. Six of...

US Supreme Court refuses to take up challenge to Florida's online sports betting compact

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a challenge to an agreement that gave the Seminole Tribe exclusive rights to handle online sports betting in Florida, dealing a blow to the deal's opponents. The nation's highest court denied a...

Florida Sen. Rick Scott says he'll vote against recreational pot after brother's death

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida says he'll be voting in November against a ballot amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in his state, a deeply personal decision based on his brother's long history of addiction. The senator and former...

Florida's Supreme Court rejects state prosecutor's bid to be reinstated after suspension by DeSantis

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's highest court on Thursday rejected an effort by a suspended state attorney to get reinstated after she was removed from office last year by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in his second suspension of a Democratic prosecutor. Supreme Court justices...

Editorial Roundup: Florida

South Florida Sun Sentinel. May 22, 2024. Editorial: Shining new light on Florida voters’ views A newly released statewide survey of Floridians’ attitudes about voting and elections provides some reassuring information at the outset of a highly volatile...

University of Florida employee, students implicated in illegal plot to ship drugs, toxins to China

A University of Florida research employee and students have been implicated in an illegal, multi-million dollar scheme investigated by the Justice Department to fraudulently buy thousands of biochemical samples of dangerous drugs and toxins that were delivered to a campus laboratory then illicitly...

Editorial Roundup: Florida

South Florida Sun Sentinel. May 11, 2024. Editorial: Censored by the Bar It is an offense against the people of Florida for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointments to have turned the state Supreme Court into a predictable fountain of right-wing opinions. The latest is its...