The U.S. Supreme Court voted Tuesday to preserve the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, rejecting an executive order President Trump signed in January 2025 that sought to curtail it. Governor Ron DeSantis, speaking at a Abraham Lincoln statue unveiling in the Florida Villages to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary, argued that the 14th Amendment was intended to extend citizenship regardless of race to formerly enslaved people, not to broadly guarantee citizenship based solely on birth location.
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Sources: The Independent Florida Alligator · WCJB TV20 · Mainstreet Daily News
A 31-year-old Orlando woman died Sunday after an alligator attacked her while she was swimming in the Econlockhatchee River in Little Big Econ State Forest in Seminole County. Wildlife officers killed two large alligators near the site — one measuring 13 feet, the other 12 feet — and sent tissue samples to a Gainesville laboratory for DNA testing to determine which animal was responsible.
Sources: WCJB TV20 · The Gainesville Sun
At a State Immigration Enforcement Council meeting Tuesday, Florida’s top law enforcement leaders reported that some local agencies are barely participating — or not participating at all — in federal immigration enforcement efforts aligned with the Trump administration’s agenda. The meeting underscored ongoing tension between state officials pushing for broader compliance and local departments that have been slow to engage.
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A lawsuit filed in Leon County Circuit Court alleges that OpenAI hurried ChatGPT’s release by a single day to beat Google to market, potentially compromising safety features. The suit, brought on behalf of Alianna Grant, who was shot three times during the Florida State University shooting, claims the gunman communicated extensively with ChatGPT in the moments before the attack. The plaintiff’s attorney says he hopes the discovery process will reveal whether the rushed launch affected the chatbot’s safety guardrails.
Sources: WCJB TV20
