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Florida’s overall state of child wellbeing did not improve in this year’s Kids Count Data Profile, although some segments including graduation rates\ and teen birth did see gains.

Record amounts of sargassum seaweed are washing onto beaches from Florida to Texas creating foul odors, frustrated beachgoers, and threatening coastal economies across multiple states.

Researchers at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School found temperature data collected from wayfaring sharks helped improve short-term climate forecasts.

“Margaritaville is kind of like the gateway to thinking about a certain kind of straight white culture in Florida, but then maybe the U.S. more broadly,” Gone says.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake off the coast of Cuba was felt across Florida on Monday afternoon, with residents reporting shaking in Miami, Tampa and Orlando.

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

A survey found that about one in three Florida homeowners want to sell their homes but won't because giving up their pandemic-era mortgage interest rate simply costs too much. This equates to more than 113,000 homeowners in the state.

Federal money is at risk for programs to prevent and treat HIV. In Washington, lawmakers are considering cuts for the next fiscal year.

Millions of soccer fans are expected to gather in 11 U.S. cities for the World Cup, and security planners have been coordinating with state, local and federal law enforcement agencies to monitor unprecedented security threats.

A Tampa nonprofit that offers vocational training found there's a growing interest in the trade industry among women, teenagers and people transitioning out of corporate workplaces.

Opponents of the death penalty say Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has more authority than other states' top officials in approving death warrants, a factor driving the high number of executions.

Florida enacted emergency rules Friday to prevent the New World screwworm from making its way to the Sunshine State. The state created protocols to protect Florida's cattle herds from the parasitic fly after it was found in Texas earlier this week.