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Needing to finish a budget for the July 1 start of the 2025-2026 fiscal year, the House and Senate on Tuesday began slowly rolling out proposals to resolve spending and policy differences.
A 4-year-old Mexican girl who receives lifesaving medical care from a Southern California hospital was granted permission to remain in the country weeks after authorities said she could be deported.
America’s Pentagon chief will not be in attendance when more than 50 other defense leaders meet this week to coordinate military aid to Ukraine.
U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to hike nearly all of his tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to a punishing 50% on Wednesday, a move that would hammer businesses from automakers to home builders, and likely push up prices for consumers.
Elon Musk has blasted President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” of tax breaks and spending cuts as a “disgusting abomination."
Longtime academic Santa Ono has been rejected for the University of Florida presidency by the state university system board.
A federal judge has barred state officials from enforcing a Florida law that would ban social media accounts for young children, while a legal challenge against the law plays out.
U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in a highly rare move.
In South Florida, a legal battle is taking place against the state’s illegal immigration enforcement laws — and on Tuesday, an Orange County leader questioned whether what they previously complied to do is legal.
President Donald Trump wants his “big, beautiful” bill of tax breaks and spending cuts on his desk to be signed into law by Independence Day.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has sued New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor over his arrest outside a federal immigration detention facility on a trespassing charge, saying the Trump-appointed attorney had pursued the case out of political spite.
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have made it a priority this year to require people to prove citizenship before they can register to vote, but turning that aspiration into reality has proved difficult.
A former Homeland Security official during President Donald Trump’s first administration wants independent government watchdogs to investigate after Trump ordered Homeland Security to look into his government service.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for environmentalists who despair at the the approach of President Donald Trump’s administration: “Stop whining and get to work.”.
Volusia County officials are raising alarms over a Republican-backed budget proposal in the U.S. Senate that would eliminate all funding the county relies on to protect its shoreline, promote tourism, and ensure public safety at the beach.
President Donald Trump implored voters in New Jersey’s primary for governor to vote for Republican Jack Ciattarelli when early in-person voting begins Tuesday and said the state was ready for a change from years of Democratic control.
When lawmakers begin budget conference talks Tuesday, a couple of priorities of Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, and House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, likely will already be off the table, including a plan to bolster rural areas and cut the overall sales tax rate.
A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to stop Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from killing a collective bargaining agreement for Transportation Safety Administration workers.
New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado says he will challenge his boss, Gov. Kathy Hochul, in the governor’s race next year, months after a feud between the two Democrats erupted into public view.
The only 4-star hotel in Brevard County should be quite the attraction when it’s done, but while it’s still being built, complaints are filling up from a property very close to the future Westin.
A Romanian citizen has pleaded guilty to engaging in a plot to use “swatting” calls to intimidate and threaten dozens of people with bogus police emergencies, including a former U.S. president and several members of Congress.
University boards appointed by the Texas governor soon could have new powers to control the curriculum required of students and eliminate degree programs.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from a private prison company facing a lawsuit claiming immigration detainees were forced to work and paid a $1 a day in Colorado.
A federal judge says an estimated 5,000 Venezuelans granted temporary protected status can continue to work and live in the U.S. despite a Supreme Court ruling revoking protections.
The head of the U.S. Energy Department says President Donald Trump wants to double the amount of oil coursing through Alaska’s 800-mile pipeline system and build a massive natural gas export project as its twin.
President Donald Trump’s administration has renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to downsize the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities proceeds.
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider reviving a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows mail ballots to be counted if they are received up to two weeks after Election Day.
President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax-break package.
“Our goal is really to focus on growth management and protecting Lake County’s character, while still having a vibrant and thriving economy,” Commissioner Leslie Campione said.
President Donald Trump has lashed out at Leonard Leo, the conservative legal activist who has worked to dramatically reshape the country’s courts.
President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.
Most of these new laws are aimed at education and schooling in Florida, such as prohibiting cell phones in schools and changing rules for corporal punishment.
After years of sponsoring LGBTQ+ Pride events around the country, some companies are pulling their financial support.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has keynoted the Democratic state conventions in South Carolina.
Nearly a month after leaving the Capitol without passing a budget, House and Senate leaders said Friday night they had reached an agreement that will clear the way for lawmakers to begin hammering out details of a spending plan Tuesday.
An appeals court is keeping in place a court block on the Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce.
President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January determined to overturn decades of American policy and build a tariff wall around a U.S. economy that used to be pretty much wide open to foreign products.
Billionaire Elon Musk is expected to fall far short of even his most modest goal of shaving $150 billion from the federal deficit, having publicly opined last year that he could identify $2 trillion, roughly the size of the federal deficit.
Many international students come to the U.S. with hopes of gaining work experience, either before returning to their home countries or pursuing a longer-term career in the U.S. But the administration’s intensifying scrutiny of international students — and signs that formal career pathways for them may be closed off — are leading some to reconsider their plans.
Former President Joe Biden has delivered the first remarks since he announced he had an aggressive form of prostate cancer, speaking in a steady voice during a somber Memorial Day gathering and later smiling and saying he’s “feeling good.”.
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is facing backlash after saying “we all are going to die” while talking about potential changes to Medicaid eligibility at a town hall in north-central Iowa.
President Donald Trump’s top education official says her department has determined that New York is discriminating against a school district that is refusing a state order to get rid of its Native American chief mascot.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Friday morning at a Home Depot in Jupiter to talk hurricane preparedness.
President Donald Trump has built a coalition by promising to demolish a so-called deep state that he claims is behind dark government conspiracies.
The California high school track-and-field championship has kicked off to a relatively quiet atmosphere.
Democratic Gov. Wes Moore has been saying for months that he doesn't plan to run for president in 2028.
President Donald Trump says he’s doubling the tariff rate on steel to 50%, a dramatic increase that could further push up prices for a metal used to make housing, autos and other goods.
An information technology specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency has been charged with attempting to transmit classified information to a representative of a foreign government.
The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Democrat Gretchen Whitmer touted her accomplishments as Michigan's governor as she passes the midpoint of her second term and is continuously floated as a potential 2028 presidential candidate.
The latest pardons by President Donald Trump are another example of him flexing his power to bestow clemency on political allies and prominent public officials, including those convicted of defrauding the public.
Elon Musk arrived in the nation’s capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorithm.
The Department of Homeland Security is putting hundreds of “sanctuary jurisdictions” across the country on notice.
The fate and fortunes of one of the world’s most powerful tech companies is now in the hands of a U.S. judge wrestling with whether to impose far-reaching changes upon Google in the wake of its dominant search engine being declared an illegal monopoly.
President Donald Trump’s big plans on trade, deportations and more are running up against the laws of political gravity and the separation of powers.
Donald Trump's lawyer says that the president suffered “mental anguish” from CBS News' editing of an interview last fall with his Democratic election opponent Kamala Harris.
The White House will fix errors in a much-anticipated federal government report spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Frayed by tariff wars and political battles, the academic tie between the U.S. and China is now facing its greatest threat yet as the Trump administration promises to revoke visas for an unknown number of Chinese students and tighten future visa screening.
President Donald Trump met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the two discussed the economy but not Powell’s outlook for interest rates, the Fed said.
Democratic and Republican candidates for New Jersey's primary for governor are offering a glimpse of where the general election campaign could go.
A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to continue collecting tariffs under an emergency powers law, for now, as his administration appeals an order striking down the bulk of his signature set of economic policies.
With the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season set to begin this weekend, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is urging Floridians to take storm preparedness seriously — warning that federal disaster aid alone may not be enough.
Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general and one of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ guest speakers at the news conference, said in part, “there simply isn’t enough justice to go around.”
South Carolina Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews says she’s running against Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2026.
For nearly a decade, Florida residents have been able to depend on an annual sales tax holiday to help prepare for hurricane season. But that may not be the case this year.
About nine years after 49 lives were lost in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, the future site of the Pulse memorial remains empty, marked only by a fence and a sign.
Mining company Signal Peak Energy sits atop a billion-ton coal reserve beneath Montana’s rugged Bull Mountains and ships 98% of the fuel it mines to Japan and South Korea.
President Donald Trump has issued a new series of pardons, awarding them to a former New York congressman, a Connecticut governor, a rapper known as “NBA YoungBoy,” a labor union leader and a onetime Army officer who flouted safety measures during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Trump administration says it's working to return a Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico over his fears of being harmed there.
Former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, whose promising political career was upended by a corruption scandal, has been pardoned by President Donald Trump.
A federal court is blocking President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
President Donald Trump has pardoned former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction.
President Donald Trump wants the world to know he’s no “chicken” just because he’s repeatedly backed off high tariff threats.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U_S_ will begin revoking the visas of some Chinese students, “including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”.
A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference at an animal rescue in Loxahatchee, where he signed two bills that seek to crack down on animal cruelty.
The Trump administration has accused North Carolina’s election board of violating federal law by failing to ensure that registration records of some applicants contained identifying numbers.
Dr. Santa Ono, a molecular immunologist and former University of Michigan president, was selected to be the next president of the University of Florida Tuesday, despite opposition from some conservatives.
President Donald Trump says he’s planning to pardon TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, famous for “Chrisley Knows Best,” a reality show that followed their tight-knit family and extravagant lifestyle.
Before the new Supervisor of Elections Amy Pennock began her budget presentation to the Board of County Commissioners this month, she laid out a list of issues she said were recently discovered in an internal review.
A federal judge has temporarily prevented President Donald Trump from retaliating against New York over its Manhattan congestion toll.
