A case of hantavirus on a cruise ship is puzzling, said William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University professor of preventive medicine. Here’s what we know about hantavirus and its transmission.

Politifact Florida found that the last time Florida Democrats led Republicans among all registered voters was in 2020. Republicans had been gaining on Democrats for years, taking the lead in 2021 and not relinquishing it since.

"It is against the constitution to redraw maps in favor of a party." Is it? Mid-decade redistricting wouldn’t be illegal, but doing it to intentionally benefit one political party would be, law professors told PolitiFact.

After President Donald Trump said the U.S. Navy would blockade the Strait of Hormuz to prevent the shipment of oil and other goods to and from Iran, Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., defended the decision.

U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., wants to overhaul the U.S. immigration system by providing legal pathways for certain immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Republican critics say her bill is too lenient, calling it "mass amnesty."PolitiFact and WLRN analyze whether this legislation would amount to amnesty.

Uthmeier, who has used his position to challenge diversity, equity and inclusion policies before, told the NFL that its "Rooney Rule" is discriminatory and illegal in Florida, and ordered the league to stop enforcing it.

Days before the April 1 oral arguments on a birthright citizenship case, Trump railed against birthright citizenship with talking points that the longstanding practice of granting automatic citizenship to U.S.-born babies is abused by wealthy foreigners, was meant for the children of enslaved people, and that the U.S. is an outlier. Time for a fact-check.

The crisis in Cuba, driven by systemic mismanagement and intensified by a U.S. oil blockade, spurred a group of liberal activists to travel to the country. But some commentators and conservative politicians denounced the trip as performative and said the activists mocked the Cuban people by staying in luxury hotels and traveling in air conditioned buses.

Florida school districts have control over some of the local tax money they receive and have the ability to decrease tax rates, but all taxes that school districts levy have some level of state control.

In the last two years of Biden’s presidency, his administration deported over 413,000 migrants — 158,665 of them with criminal charges or convictions. The U.S. oversaw over 4.6 million total removals, returns and expulsions combined throughout his term, DHS data shows.

In Florida, citizen-backed initiatives are the only ballot measures that trigger an automatic review by the state Supreme Court. The review ensures the initiative covers one subject and that its ballot summary is not confusing or deceptive.

Since September 2025, the U.S. has struck at least 40 alleged drug vessels, killing 149 people. Drug seizures tell us only how many drugs are stopped from entering the U.S. The figures don’t show how many drugs are being sent to the U.S. or how many are making it in.