A federal judge heard arguments about an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”.

Florida students who were traumatized by the 2018 Parkland school shooting — and last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University — are urging lawmakers in the Republican-controlled statehouse not to roll back gun restrictions they passed in the wake of the killing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity.

A Republican proposal to slash the $600 weekly benefit boost for those left jobless because of the coronavirus shutdown could result in weeks or even months of delayed payments in some states. Washington was among the first states to implement the $600 benefit boost. We are concerned by any large-scale changes to the federal pandemic unemployment benefits," Faulk said in a statement. Such workers are generally not eligible for unemployment benefits, but they are under coronavirus relief legislation. The Republican proposal on unemployment benefits, simply put, is unworkable.