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Governor Ron DeSantis is speaking out against the Biden administration’s move to lift some Trump-era restrictions on Cuba

Capitol Police Director Mark Glass was named by Gov. Ron DeSantis as acting commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, as longtime Commissioner Rick Swearingen’s exit became effective on Sunday.

Governor Ron DeSantis has signed into law a measure that would create an elections’ investigations unit within the Florida Department of State.

The measure had drawn opposition from Gov. Ron DeSantis and critics such as fishing guides who raced to the Capitol to appear in the Senate gallery. A leader of one group said the changes removed the “worst of the worst” in a bill that opponents argued was being rammed through the legislative process.

The House voted 102-14 to approve the proposal, after Democrats objected to shifting $200 million away from 12 school districts that required students to wear masks last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic and called for more money to go to affordable housing and health care.

State economists reported Thursday that general-revenue tax collections in December were $610.9 million, or 19.3 percent, over a projection made in August. General revenue totaled $3.771 billion during the month, compared to the projection of about $3.16 billion.

Two bills that require local governments to take the impact on businesses into account are winning approval in the Legislature

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that Florida law-enforcement officers will go to Texas and Arizona to help with border control, as Florida continues to challenge the Biden administration in federal court about immigration enforcement.

Statewide, with 62.14 percent of Florida’s 14.44 million registered voters already participating in Tuesday’s elections, registered Democrats had cast about 108,000 more ballots than their Republican counterparts, according to the state Division of Elections.

The effort to wipe out felons’ debts has drawn financial support from such celebrities as musician John Legend and NBA superstars LeBron James and Michael Jordan, as well as Florida professional sports teams.

Florida continues to see a steady decline in first-time unemployment claims, even as several large hospitality and entertainment companies have extended...

Florida’s top business regulator believes bar and craft-brewery owners will do a better job this time of self-enforcing state safety restrictions. But Department of Business and Professional Regulation Secretary Halsey Beshears said Wednesday his agency won’t go easy on bars and breweries that violate rules such as indoor occupancy limits.