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Service members to get biggest pay raise in 20 years in bill heading to Biden’s desk
While the pay bump will affect the 62,177 active duty service members in Florida, this year’s National Defense Authorization Act is just the latest example of the increasingly partisan landscape of modern American politics.
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Take a peek inside Bad Bunny’s new San Juan restaurant
Bad Bunny, along with his manager Noah Assad, and other partners invested $5 million into the restaurant, which employs about 200 people directly and indirectly.
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Supreme Court to decide whether to ban abortion pill nationwide
The abortion pill mifepristone is one of two drugs used in medication abortions, which account for more than half of all abortions in the United States. If the Court approves a ban or other restrictions, it could severely restrict the ability to access abortion care all across the country.
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The history behind all 63 National Parks in the US
People entered U.S. national parks nearly 312 million times in 2022, up by 15 million visits from the year before, according to the National Park Service. Eight of these federally-owned and protected parks garnered 26% of visits, and another 25% of visits came from the 331 least-visited parks.President Woodrow Wilson first signed the “Organic Act”…
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Op-ed: Families like mine are counting on Congress to fully fund WIC
A Florida mom of four explains the critical role that the Women, Infants, and Children program – more commonly known as WIC – has played in her family’s life.
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Biden campaign blames Trump for growing anti-abortion extremism
In Missouri, Republicans have introduced bills to charge women who have abortions with murder, while in Texas, a mom was forced to flee the state to get an abortion in order to protect her own health—situations made possible by Donald Trump and the repeal of Roe v. Wade.
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Florida higher education is facing “an intellectual reign of terror,” report finds
The report compiled by a special committee of the American Association of University Professors warns that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ education policies threaten the very survival of meaningful higher education in the state.
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DeSantis says he’ll replace Obamacare with a ‘better plan,’ but offers no details
Repealing the Affordable Care Act would take health insurance away from 3.2 million Floridians, with no concrete plan to replace that coverage.
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To lower the cost of expensive drugs, Biden targets Big Pharma’s patents
Under a plan announced Thursday, the government would consider overriding the patent for high-priced drugs that have been developed with the help of taxpayer money and letting competitors make them in hopes of driving down the cost.
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Floridians get relief as Biden cancels nearly $5 billion more in student debt
More than 105,000 Floridians have had their student debt discharged or have been identified for debt relief due to the Biden administration’s reforms of the student loan debt system.
