Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' ban on mask mandates in schools will not remain in place, Leon County's 2nd Judicial Circuit Court Judge John Cooper ruled Friday. The court said that under the law the ...

While kids under 12 years old are still not eligible to receive a COVID19 vaccine, a debate is raging over whether to require students to wear masks as they head back to school. It’s leading to a face ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Two Florida school districts that defied state rules and imposed mask mandates for students have been given 48 hours to reverse course or lose state funding equal to the salaries ...

It is legal to wear a mask at a protest in Florida as long as there is no intent to intimidate, threaten, or commit a crime. Florida's anti-mask laws were originally created in 1951 to combat the Ku ...

Pointing to a need to “minimize the amount of time students are removed from in-person learning,” the Florida Department of Health on Wednesday issued a revised rule that gives parents more authority ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Florida's Department of Education announced on Monday that it would withhold school board members' salaries in Alachua and Broward counties because of their school mask mandates.

Two Florida lawmakers filed new legislation on Thursday that would require law enforcement and immigration officers to display visible identification and prohibit the use of face coverings during ...

The mask wars didn’t end with Covid. First, they were a public health imperative. Then they were banned in a conservative backlash. And now, in the wake of nationwide Israel-Palestine protests, ...

Protesters in Portland have donned frog costumes to taunt Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel and gleefully diffuse the Trump administration's claim that the peaceful city is rampant ...