A charity meant to help people stay off public assistance was the signature project of Florida’s popular first lady, Casey DeSantis. But over three years, it had managed to raise only about $2 million to help struggling families in Florida. Then last fall, a $10 million windfall suddenly arrived from an unlikely source: a Medicaid […]
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What if you created a movement that proclaimed its love and admiration for free speech while engaging in cancel culture with ferocious glee? What if that same movement proclaimed its love of the American founding at the same time that it got busy attacking the founding’s most important achievement, the Constitution? Meet the anti-woke right. […]
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A transgender woman was arrested at the Florida State Capitol last month after she used a bathroom there to protest a state law that blocks transgender people from using a rest room that aligns with their gender identity. The transgender woman, Marcy Rheintgen, 20, said on Sunday that she had intentionally broken the law. Civil […]
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Two special congressional elections on Tuesday in Florida were supposed to have been cakewalks for the Republican Party. Instead, one contest has turned into the unlikely scene of a multimillion-dollar spending brawl — and of pre-election finger-pointing on the right over how the race ever became a race at all. The seat, in Florida’s Sixth […]
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Frank Curnow, a retired Navy veteran, had a question for the Republican Party volunteers at an early voting site in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Thursday. Why, he asked, were some polls suggesting a tight race for the open seat in his reliably conservative congressional district, Florida’s Sixth? “That’s not good,” said Mr. Curnow, 77, a […]
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Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, the online influencers who decamped last month to the United States while facing human-trafficking charges in two European countries, were set to return on Friday to Romania ahead of a criminal proceeding, one of them said Friday. The British American siblings were expected to arrive at night in […]
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Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are down to their lowest level in decades. Once-crowded migrant shelters are empty. Instead of heading north, people stranded in Mexico are starting to return home in bigger numbers. The border is almost unrecognizable from just a couple of years ago, when hundreds of thousands of people from around […]
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Hi again listeners, it’s Ross. So this week, we’re going to talk about DEI diversity, equity and inclusion a vision of social justice that took elite America and all its institutions by storm during Donald Trump’s first term and a vision, as almost everyone has noticed, that is now in full scale retreat. The Trump […]
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Florida’s insurance regulator has demanded an unusually intrusive trove of data on millions of prescription drugs filled in the state last year, including the names of patients taking the medications, their dates of birth and doctors they’ve seen. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation in January sought this information from pharmacy benefit managers like UnitedHealth’s […]
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Florida’s attorney general on Tuesday opened a criminal investigation into Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, the British American online influencers who face human-trafficking charges in Romania and Britain, after they arrived in the state last week. Attorney General James Uthmeier of Florida said in a statement on Tuesday that he had directed his […]
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Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said on Monday that his wife, Casey DeSantis, would be a formidable candidate if she chose to run for governor next year, a provocative suggestion that came days after President Trump endorsed Representative Byron Donalds as his preferred Republican candidate for the 2026 governor’s race. Mr. DeSantis did not outright […]
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Florida lawmakers will vote this week on a revised set of immigration enforcement bills supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis, ending a tense, two-week standoff and allowing both sides to save face in front of voters who consider illegal immigration a top issue. The rift had exposed an unusual power struggle among the state’s top Republicans […]
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No state’s political order has been more upended by President Trump’s return to power than that of his adopted Florida. Mr. Trump stacked his new administration with Floridians, leaving powerful positions vacant. Ambitious Republicans have jockeyed to fill them through special elections or appointments by the governor. The reshuffling has empowered Gov. Ron DeSantis, a […]
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With a series of executive orders, President Trump has demonstrated that he has the appetite for an audacious fight to remake public education in the image of his “anti-woke,” populist political movement. But in a country unique among nations for its hyperlocal control of schools, the effort is likely to run into legal, logistical and […]
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Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida promised on Wednesday to veto legislation that would toughen immigration enforcement in the state and blasted fellow Republicans for not going far enough after they took the rare step of defying him. Escalating a power struggle with new Republican legislative leaders, Mr. DeSantis said he would reject the bill, the […]
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For six years, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida could count on Republican state lawmakers bending to his will, giving swift approval to his ambitious legislative priorities with hardly a whiff of protest. Those days appear to be over. On Monday, in a remarkable sequence of events at the State Capitol in Tallahassee, Republican legislative leaders […]
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A special session of the Tennessee General Assembly that begins on Monday reflects the way President Trump’s aggressive conservative agenda is already emboldening Republicans to pursue his priorities at the state level. Gov. Bill Lee has proposed new measures to toughen immigration enforcement, including the creation of a position in state government that would directly […]
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Susie Wiles, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s incoming White House chief of staff, begins her days at 7:30 a.m. in the West Palm Beach transition headquarters. But by 2 p.m. she has typically parked herself a few feet from Mr. Trump for a daily five-hour marathon in his office, the former Mar-a-Lago bridal suite. “The president […]
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Former Representative Matt Gaetz, who withdrew as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominee for attorney general ahead of the release of a House Ethics panel report that accused him of “regularly” paying for sex and using drugs, said that he was “starting to think about running for governor” next year in Florida. The contest for the […]
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