Republican lawmakers are backing bills that would require students and faculty at Florida’s public universities to complete yearly surveys to identify political bias inside college classrooms. It would also allow students to record their professors during lectures. The bills would measure whether college instructors – widely perceived as skewing left …
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Alachua County insurance agents are on a mission to help residents get insured as a special enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act is underway.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray is expected to face a grilling from lawmakers Tuesday about the bureau's response to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the rising threat from white supremacists and other domestic violent extremists.
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TALLAHASSEE — In a possible prelude to Florida’s upcoming gubernatorial campaign, the state’s only Democrat holding statewide office took a shot at Gov. Ron DeSantis in a campaign-style video released Tuesday that cast the Republican as unempathetic amid a deadly pandemic and a loyalist to former President Donald Trump. In …
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Gov. Ron DeSantis and House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, continued their push against big technology companies Monday, introducing legislation focused on data privacy and security.
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A Trump conviction is very unlikely. Democrats would need 17 Republicans to join them in voting yes to convict Trump. In an earlier vote on the constitutionality of the trial, only five Republicans broke with their GOP colleagues, a vote that likely foreshadows the intentions of most Republican senators in the trial.
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At about 7 p.m. ET Monday, the House will deliver to the Senate an article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump, a move that will trigger preparations for a historic trial.
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Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, having defeated Donald Trump in an acrimonious, divisive election last November.
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The U.S. Capitol insurrection was still on the minds of those at the Martin Luther King Day event on Monday at the Cleather Hathcock Sr. Community Center in Alachua.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis warned Tuesday that law enforcement “reinforcements” will be on hand if anyone plans to participate in armed protests at the state Capitol.
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