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The Acreage resident secured Trump’s endorsement in January for her County Commission bid and proclaimed it in an advertising mailer that went out last week.

Former Miami-Dade County Democratic state Sen. Annette Taddeo announced her candidacy on Monday.

Abelardo de la Espriella in Colombia and Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil have never appeared on the same stage, but they are running similar campaigns, reading from similar scripts, and looking toward the same set of foreign role models.

Bucking Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida lawmakers won’t strike vaccine mandates for kids or create new guardrails on artificial intelligence, House Speaker Daniel Perez declared Tuesday morning.

Former U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was accused of violating elections law for accepting donations through shell companies stemming from a Haitian government-funded company, according to the Campaign Legal Center complaint.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a education package Monday evening that puts into law the main education policy priorities of the legislative session, including small private school zoning laws, installing portraits of presidents in schools, and cursive writing testing requirements.

Unofficial voter registration cards are being mailed out, and Leon County Supervisor Mark Earley says much of the information used to send them is inaccurate.

Last year’s extended session that featured a lengthy standoff between the Florida House and Florida Senate over spending and taxes cost slightly more than $259,000, according to figures compiled by the Office of Legislative Services.

A Florida Auditor General report concluded the state Department of Education's voucher management program is riddled with problems. Millions of taxpayer dollars for the program are unaccounted for, infuriating lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle.

The new standards the board voted for on Thursday offer deeper analysis of the topic, guidelines for specific courses, material for students with special needs and paves the way to find textbooks that are "aligned" with the curriculum. The board also unanimously voted to make Florida the first state to adopt the Phoenix Declaration, a playbook for education outlined by a conservative think tank.

Former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is challenging Republican Sen. Rick Scott in 2024 and hoping to stem Republicans’ inroads with Latinx voters in the Sunshine State.

Ana Sofía Peláez is the author of "The Cuban Table" cookbook and executive director of the Miami Freedom Project. She joins us to talk about her goal of making sure that progressives in Miami have a seat at the table.