Politics

Billboards featuring an angry-looking Trump have emerged across Florida just one day before a controversial abortion law takes effect.

In Florida and across the nation, young voters could prove pivotal in the 2024 election, from the presidency to ballot amendments and down ballot races that will determine who controls Congress.

Florida abortion providers and activists are girding for a law that will take effect Wednesday and prevent abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, severely limiting access to abortion for women in the state and across the Southeast.

Even after the arrests, the protesters are not letting up. A march from an intersection just off campus back to the Plaza of the Americas – the area where the arrests happened – is just one of several planned demonstrations.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed 28 bills, including a measure requiring disclaimers on certain political ads created using artificial intelligence, a bill about regulation of vape products, and legislation allowing new moms to be excused from jury duty.

Two prosecutors suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis qualified this week to run in November for their old positions.

Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to travel to Jacksonville, Florida, next week for a campaign event highlighting abortion restrictions nationwide. It is billed as another stop in the "Fight for Reproductive Freedoms" tour, which the vice president kicked off in January.

As the qualifying period ended Friday for this year’s congressional elections, U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., said he would not seek another term and backed former state Senate President Mike Haridopolos as a successor.

College students could soon be allowed to carry guns at universities in Florida.