Gov. Ron DeSantis

Richard Knight was executed Thursday night at Florida State Prison for the 2000 murder of his cousin’s girlfriend Odessia Stephens and her four-year-old daughter Hanessia Mullings. Knight is the eighth death warrant signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis this year.

The governor designated the Muslim civil rights organization a terrorist organization in December. The issue is now being litigated in the federal courts.

With the facility’s future in flux, PolitiFact rounded up fact-checks of statements by DeSantis and Trump that miscast its detainees, environmental effects and funding.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Friday to expand the armed “school guardian” program to Florida's colleges and universities.

It’s the first installment of the $608 million FEMA grant Florida’s been waiting for since the detention center opened last summer.

The governor took the opportunity during a ceremony in Madison Thursday afternoon to torch Perez yet again. In this case, the governor went on a verbal tear for nearly 10 minutes (with one break) to express anger and frustration with the Miami Republican, claiming he “has a personal agenda.”

Fentanyl-caused deaths declined by 46% in the first half of 2025.

Environmental groups say the expected closure of a detention center in the Florida Everglades is linked to their lawsuit. The center, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz," could close in the next month or two. A federal appellate court recently allowed it to remain open but sent the case back to a lower court.

A bill limiting foreign influence from “countries of concern,” including adding penalties for businesses and prohibiting surrogacy contracts with Chinese nationals, was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Moskowitz is pivoting to the newly created 25th district, which stretches along the coast from Delray Beach to Miami Beach. Its an area Trump won in 2024 by about 9 percentage points.

A prohibition on local governments imposing certain regulations over traditional Seminole Tribe homes known as “chickees,” now more often used as shaded garden or poolside structures, was among four bills signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a new congressional map, reworking 21 of Florida's 28 U.S. House districts. A voting rights group quickly filed a lawsuit.