Before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed James Uthmeier, his former chief of staff, as attorney general, Uthmeier worked in the first Trump administration in the Department of Commerce, which oversees the U.S. Census Bureau. Now Uthmeier’s past is present after President Donald Trump called for a rare, mid-decade census to exclude immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

Trump officials defended Abrego Garcia’s detention and deportation by continuing to level accusations against him since wrongly deporting him in March to an El Salvador maximum-security prison. Here’s what we know about Abrego Garcia’s history.

Resurrecting longstanding complaints about how U.S. elections are run, President Donald Trump this week reiterated that he wants faster election results, but doesn’t want voting machines.

PolitiFact Florida explores House Speaker Mike Johnson's larger point about what Democrat lawmakers said before this year about releasing Epstein records or investigating the case.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said every person held at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility has been issued a final order saying they must be deported. Lawyers say he's wrong.

President Donald Trump and his allies have tried to steer discussion about the Jeffrey Epstein case away from Trump and instead use it to attack Democrats, including former President Barack Obama. In an interview with CNN," U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., blamed Obama for the "sweetheart deal" given to Epstein, a sex offender who died in federal custody in 2019. PolitiFact and WLRN assess whether this is true or not.

PolitiFact found three reports that showed Florida last or second-to-last nationally on mental health care — one from 2025 and two based on data that is at least a decade old. Other rankings put it in a slightly better light.

A few days after a flash flood in Texas killed at least 135 people, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier promoted a new law he says will help the state avoid the same scenario. He said state is ‘under attack’ from weather modification. PolitiFact and WLRN asses whether that is true.

Some people detained at the facility have violent criminal histories. But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.

ICE detention standards are difficult to enforce because they aren’t written into law. Rather than follow a uniform standard, detention centers operate under a patchwork of different standards.