DeSantis unveils new economic policy that targets China, taxes and regulations
Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis is taking aim at China with a 10-point economic plan he's calling a "Declaration of Economic Independence.".
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Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis is taking aim at China with a 10-point economic plan he's calling a "Declaration of Economic Independence.".
As a feud continues between Gov. Ron DeSantis and The Walt Disney Co., property owners in a special district that includes Walt Disney World could see a reduction in their property-tax rate.
A government watchdog group is asking federal regulators to investigate a $500,000 contribution to a super PAC backing Miami Mayor Francis Suarez's presidential bid by a shop selling artificial flowers.
Migrant workers and advocates on Monday filed a federal lawsuit challenging part of a new Florida law that makes it a felony to transport into the state people who enter the country illegally, arguing the law is vague and will lead to "unlawful arrest, prosecution and harassment."
Concerning questions Monday about a possible crack on a South Florida highway.
After a decade-long legal fight, a federal judge Friday ordered Florida to make changes to keep children with "complex" medical conditions out of nursing homes and help them receive care in their family homes or communities.
The Republican Party of Florida in June continued to expand its voter-registration advantage over the Florida Democratic Party.
Disney has asked a Florida judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by a board governing Disney World that is made up of Gov. Ron DeSantis' appointees.
State and national media organizations and open-government advocacy groups this week urged an appeals court to reject arguments that "executive privilege" shields Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration from releasing records.
For more than five years, the bloodstained halls and classrooms where 17 people died at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has remained locked away and mostly untouched — not even the victims' families were allowed inside.
After a federal judge rejected an earlier version of the case, attorneys for Florida A&M University students this week filed a revised lawsuit alleging that the historically Black university "remains separate and unequal" to other schools in the state.
Florida officials are thinking about charging the parents of children who have drowned.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a measure that will overhaul the state's alimony laws, after three vetoes of similar bills and a decade of emotional clashes over the issue.
Florida medical boards on Friday approved rules related to providing treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone-replacement therapy to transgender children and adults, carrying out part of a new law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The Florida Department of Health on Monday issued a statewide "mosquito-borne illness" advisory after four cases of malaria were confirmed in Sarasota County.
The United States is not looking at imminent military action against Cuba despite President Donald Trump’s repeated comments about Cuba “being next.” That’s what U.S. officials involved in the negotiations on the island have told the Associated Press. But Cuba is dealing with another round of sanctions and this time it’s targeting its powerful business arm of the military. CBS News Miami’s Morgan Rynor is tracking the developments.
Deputies with the Broward Sheriff's Office swarmed a neighborhood in North Lauderdale overnight to conduct an investigation. CBS News Miami's Steve Maugeri has the breaking details.
Rain chances will increase after the weekend.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is acknowledging that the controversial immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz," located in the heart of the Florida Everglades, could eventually shut down operations. The comments came after The New York Times reported Thursday that federal and state officials are discussing closing the facility, citing the high cost of operating it — estimated at roughly $1 million a day.
These sanctions come as reports say that the U.S. is not looking for military intervention in the island.
Edwin Lopez, who has served as chief of the Doral Police Department since 2023, has been selected as the next police chief for the City of Miami.
Prosecutors are trying to strip former ambassador Victor Manuel Rocha of his U.S. citizenship after he admitted to secretly serving as a Cuban spy for decades.
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated inside his bedroom on July 7, 2021.
There is a major risk of heat-related illnesses for most of South Florida through Mother's Day weekend.
The victims were rushed to a local hospital and one of them was pronounced dead a short time later, the Broward Sheriff's Office says.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
Attorneys for accused White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter Cole Allen asked a judge to disqualify Jeanine Pirro and other senior Justice Department leaders from the case because they were present during the incident.
The Justice Department argues the patchwork of state laws around guns makes it difficult to take them across state lines for lawful purposes like target shooting, hunting and self-defense.
The tariffs were put in place in February, days after the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's previous round of sweeping "Liberation Day" tariffs.
Three U.S. Navy destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz came under attack on Thursday, and the U.S. struck on two Iranian ports abutting the strait, putting into question an increasingly fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican to discuss the situation in the Middle East and other matters.
In an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor's efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
The center – which was promised to voters back in 2004 – would take mentally ill individuals out of the jail and move them into a place where they can receive comprehensive treatment and support.
Luna said she expects Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick to be the next member who either resigns or gets expelled.
Uthmeier was asked several times during a press conference in Miami this week if he had formally requested the judge overseeing the grand jury to keep the findings secret.
Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.
The FDA announced its first authorization of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes intended for adult smokers, a major policy shift after months of appeals to President Trump from the vaping industry.
Seventy-three percent of Americans say delays and denials of medical treatment by healthcare insurers are a major problem. Now, a company called Sheer Health says they will fight insurance battles on behalf of their clients.
An unlicensed cosmetologist from Florida has been found guilty in a California court for providing an injection that killed a model who was known as a Kim Kardashian lookalike, prosecutors said.
Food containing norovirus may smell and taste normal but still cause serious illness if consumed, FDA warns.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
A trial in the lawsuit between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was set to begin later in May.
The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady Gaga last year on one of the world's most iconic waterfronts.
Attending this year's Kentucky Derby meant more for thoroughbred expert Mark Toothaker, who suffered a seizure from laughing at a whiffed NFL field goal attempt that led to a lifesaving diagnosis.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.
Jake was at the funeral for one of his closest friends when he learned of his parents' deaths, he said.
