Social Media Crackdown Clears Florida Senate
In one of Gov. Ron DeSantis' top priorities of the legislative session, the Florida Senate on Monday passed a measure to crackdown on social media companies that remove users from their platforms.
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In one of Gov. Ron DeSantis' top priorities of the legislative session, the Florida Senate on Monday passed a measure to crackdown on social media companies that remove users from their platforms.
Jim DeFede devoted the entire half-hour to the home stretch of the Florida 2021 legislative session.
Governor Ron DeSantis has reached an agreement with the Seminole Tribe that would greatly expand gambling in the state.
The Florida House has unanimously passed a new school safety bill that aims to build on a law that addressed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
Civil-rights attorneys are challenging a new set of state laws that establish a crime of "mob intimidation" and enhance penalties for riot-related violence and looting, arguing in a federal lawsuit that the measures unconstitutionally "seek to arrest the peaceful expression of free speech."
President Joe Biden's pick to be NASA administrator, former Sen. Bill Nelson, testified in front of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee in a hearing for his confirmation.
A Celebration of Life was held Wednesday morning for the late Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings, who passed away on April 6, from pancreatic cancer at the age of 84.
The Florida Senate is scheduled Thursday to consider a bill that would crack down on social-media companies, while the House version awaits action.
A proposal that would make it more difficult for transgender athletes to compete on girls' and women's high-school and college teams stalled Tuesday in a state Senate panel.
One of the 2021 legislative session's most-controversial issues, a sweeping elections package that would make it harder for Floridians to vote by mail, is headed to the Senate floor for a vote, after a Republican-dominated committee signed off on the proposal Tuesday.
"You have just declared war on the First Amendment in the state of Florida." Strong words on Monday afternoon from State Senator Shevrin Jones, D-Miami Gardens, directed at Governor Ron DeSantis just hours after signing HB-1, the so-called anti-riot bill.
A legislative effort to overturn a 2020 vote by Key West residents to limit cruise-ship operations continues to be narrowed to the Monroe County tourism community.
A Senate committee Monday narrowly approved a measure that would crack down on social-media companies, an issue that is a priority of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Congressional Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Maria Elvira Salazar want to reinstate the Cuban Family Reunification Parole Program.
With the stroke of a pen, Governor Ron DeSantis signed a controversial law and order bill into law which aimed at cracking down on unruly and violent protests.
