Rick Scott amends plan to make exceptions for Social Security, Medicare
Democrats repeatedly seized on Scott's plan to accuse Republicans of looking to cut Medicare and Social Security.
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Democrats repeatedly seized on Scott's plan to accuse Republicans of looking to cut Medicare and Social Security.
The 3-year-old went into his parents' bedroom and removed a 9mm handgun from the nightstand drawer and shot himself point blank, the sheriff said.
Pensacola Christian College said that the "lifestyle" of one of the group's members "violates the Holy Scripture."
The forklift was transporting roofing material for repairs of damage from Tropical Storm Ian and the driver apparently didn't see the woman, a local official said.
The course was rolled out in a two-year pilot program across 60 unnamed U.S. high schools this year, one of which is in New Jersey.
Today marks five years since 17 students and teachers were killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Tony Montalto, whose daughter Gina was one of the students killed that day, joins CBS News' Anne-Marie Green and Seth Doane to discuss what his organization, Stand with Parkland, is doing to help implement gun reform.
The elected state prosecutor suspended by the Florida governor is filing an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the governor in a renewed bid to get his job back.
"It's very emotional to watch your house taken down," a Florida boat captain said after a hurricane leveled his home.
DeSantis criticized the College Board's letter in a Monday press conference, saying they put in subjects like Black queer theory and intersectionality into the course, "not us."
On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman murdered 17 people and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. David Hogg, who was 17 at the time, survived and helped to create March for Our Lives, which promotes gun control legislation. Now a senior at Harvard, Hogg tells correspondent Rita Braver what he has been through the past five years, including death threats against himself and his family; what his group has accomplished; and what it means for young people having to become leaders as advocates for change.
A proposed draft of a physical education eligibility form in Florida was voted down Thursday night by the Florida High School Athletic Association. The form would have required high school student-athletes to reveal their menstrual history but it drew major concerns over a potential invasion of privacy and possible discrimination against transgender students. Miami Herald investigative reporter Clara-Sophia Daly joined Anne-Marie Green and Shanelle Kaul to discuss.
Questions about athletes' menstrual history will no longer appear on medical forms Florida high school students are required to fill out before participating in sports, though the new form will still ask athletes for their sex assigned at birth, rather than just their sex.
Disney could soon be losing control over a piece of its Magic Kingdom. CBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez has the latest from Miami.
People under 18 must have parental consent to obtain abortion care in the state. Those who can't obtain such consent have to go through the court system.
While none of Florida's 16 unprovoked attacks were fatal, two resulted in amputations, according to the report.
It is among Florida's oldest unsolved crimes on record, notorious for its brutality, as well as for a pool of suspects that numbered over 600.
Officers located the woman, 12-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy shopping in Winn Dixie "after disguising their identities," police said.
3 people seen on video "may have valuable information and need to be spoken to," police said.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans moved last year. The reason? Think housing costs, jobs and taxes.
The world's third-largest coral reef just off the Florida Keys was once a vibrant habitat for millions of plants and animals. But an outbreak of stony coral tissue loss disease is threatening to destroy it. Scientists are trying to regrow the coral in a lab hundreds of miles away to save it. Manuel Bojorquez takes a look.
The College Board on Wednesday released its new Advanced Placement course on African American studies. The board made revisions to the course after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would ban it unless changes were made. Wall Street Journal reporter Doug Belkin joined CBS News to discuss the latest on the story.
The course was first announced last August but the final framework was released on Wednesday.
Gayle King sits down with tennis icon Serena Williams to talk about her next chapter. Williams shares her plans for business and expanding her family. Her husband Alexis Ohanian joins to give King a tour of their Florida farm.
The animal was killed less than 24 hours after arriving at Wild Florida.
After the height of the pandemic, data shows more people have moved away from big cities and are heading toward Florida, Texas and the Carolinas. Nadia Evangelou, senior economist and director of real estate research with the National Association of Realtors, joins "CBS News Mornings" to discuss which areas are seeing the biggest population booms.