The race to lead the third-most populated state in the country has been surprisingly muted this year. Florida governor Rick Scott is term-limited and running for United States Senate, and there’s a slew of Republicans and Democrats looking to succeed him.

Several black graduates who were trying to dance across their graduation stage were stopped and physically removed by school staff during a University of Florida commencement ceremony.

Sen. Marco Rubio, one of the most useless people in politics, sat down with The Economist for an interview last week and trashed his party’s shiny new tax law—the one he voted for—and said it doesn’t help workers:

A Florida high school student was slammed to the ground by the school’s resource officer after allegedly resisting arrest. Officials are now investigating.

A gay couple was assaulted by four men just after Miami’s annual Pride parade, and it was all caught on camera. The suspects have surrendered, and local authorities are now investigating whether it should be considered a hate crime.

A Florida cop was caught on camera Sunday roughly pulling a woman to the ground by her hair while breaking up a fight at a restaurant in West Palm Beach. The woman was charged with battery and resisting an officer—presumably because she put her hand in the officer’s face before he yanked her to the ground. The West…

Just one month ago, Marco Rubio was thoroughly owned by Parkland teens during a town hall on school shootings, who asked him if he would commit to stop taking donations from the NRA. (Surprise: he wouldn’t!)

The Trump administration will reportedly propose that states should arm teachers, less than three weeks after the President proposed it as a solution to school shootings and then denied it, and less than two weeks after a Georgia teacher was arrested after barricading himself inside of a classroom with a gun.

Florida Governor Rick Scott signed new gun restrictions into law on Friday over objections by the powerful gun lobby, marking the first legislative effort to restrict firearms in the gun-friendly state in decades.

Florida lawmakers just sent a historic gun control bill to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk. While many Parkland families support the measure, it still falls short of addressing student survivors’ demands, and contains provisions that even the wildly pro-NRA Scott doesn’t back. The big question now: will Scott sign the bill or…

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoolon Wednesday morning, where she briefly met with students who seemed to make clear that she was not a welcome guest.

A gun control bill drafted in the wake of the Parkland shooting has passed Florida’s Republican-controlled Senate.

Florida Republican congressman Matt Gaetz wants the nation’s schools flooded with guns. He’s so excited about it that he even made the claim—which he quickly retracted—that he has experienced coming under fire.

Update, Sunday, 4:55 p.m.: Citrus County School District Superintendent Sandra “Sam” Himmel issued the following statement on Sunday:

On Tuesday, Alana Agron’s phone rang unexpectedly. It was the admissions office at Washington University in St. Louis, letting her know she had been accepted. She should have felt elated—the 18-year-old senior had sent applications to a handful of colleges across the country, and Wash U. was among her top choices.

PARKLAND, FLORIDA — It should not come as a shock that the gun store is in a strip mall, next to a kids’ hair salon and a wellness spa. We buy guns from all kinds of places in this country: strip malls and big box stores and parking lots and Facebook. Nor should it be any particular surprise that the strip mall is in…

Speaker of the Florida House Richard Corcoran sent a letter to Governor Rick Scott on Sunday afternoon, asking him to suspend Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for “incompetence and dereliction of duty” in the months before and days following the mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

After over a week of mounting pressure from students in Florida and around the country, Gov. Rick Scott announced on Friday that he supports raising the minimum age to buy a gun in his state to 21 years old, breaking with the National Rifle Association.

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At a CNN town hall on Wednesday night, Marco Rubio got dunked on time and time again by Florida high school students and parents who pressed him about where he stands on gun control. Despite being asked repeatedly, Rubio refused to say he would support a ban on assault weapons or that he would stop accepting money…