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Barron Trump Is Picked to Be Delegate at the Republican Convention
After years in which his privacy has been fiercely guarded and he has been kept out of the political arena, former President Donald J. Trump’s youngest son, Barron, was chosen to be one of Florida’s delegates to the Republican National Convention ...
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How Six-Week Abortion Bans Went From Fringe to Reality
Even opponents of abortion saw such curbs as too controversial just over a decade ago. Times have changed.
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Florida’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Now Law, With Political Implications
The ban, which took effect on Wednesday, was part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s push into cultural conservatism. But Florida politics is rarely that simple.
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Biden to Give Abortion-Focused Speech in Florida, Tying State Ban to Trump
The Biden campaign has made abortion one of its top issues, as polling shows it is one of the few subjects in which voters place more trust in President Biden than Donald Trump.
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Putting Abortion Question to Florida Voters is Unlikely to End Court Fights
Though the Florida Supreme Court allowed a ballot question on expanding abortion rights, it also laid out a way for anti-abortion groups to challenge such an expansion.
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Florida Court Rulings Pose Risks for House Republicans on Abortion
The twin decisions have all but guaranteed that voters will have the issue on their minds in November, bringing potential risks for two anti-abortion Republicans in the state whose districts aren’t solidly red.
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University of Florida Eliminates All D.E.I.-Related Positions
The move complies with a state law that barred public universities from using government funds for initiatives that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Can Either Party Hold It Together Until November?
The Republican Party of the Sunshine State, the NBC News reporter Matt Dixon writes in SWAMP MONSTERS: Trump vs. DeSantis — The Greatest Show on Earth (or at Least in Florida) (Little, Brown, 323 pp., $30), is now “the party of Florida Man,” the ...
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Florida Suspends Bill to Protect ‘Unborn Child’ After I.V.F. Ruling
The News Republican lawmakers in Florida sidelined a bill this week that would allow civil lawsuits over the wrongful death of a fetus. Those on both sides of the abortion debate attributed the pause to fallout from the Alabama Supreme Court’s ...
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In on the Joke at the First-Ever Florida Man Games
A mullet contest, a “mud duel” with pool noodles, an “evading arrest” obstacle course — and a chance to mull why the meme that launched it all keeps hanging on.