President Donald Trump plans to highlight his record on crime and safety during a visit to a New York police academy on Friday.

Zach Lahn, the Republican nominee for Iowa governor, says he's bringing a different message to Iowans.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and negotiator Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East next week to try to advance plans for an end to the conflict in Gaza after a deal recently announced by the Trump administration ran into Israeli opposition.

President Donald Trump is ordering the U.S. Navy to remove the advanced system used to launch fighter jets from its newest type of aircraft carriers and return to using older steam catapults that he has long said he prefers.

Former Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is scheduled to be the featured speaker at a Labor Day rally in what may be one of his first public appearances since a sexual assault allegation ended his candidacy.

The Kennedy Center will move forward with a two-year closure of the performing arts venue to allow for substantial renovations.

Abdul El-Sayed made history this month in Michigan by becoming the first Muslim nominated by the Democratic Party to run for the U.S. Senate.

David Jolly, a former Republican now running for Florida governor as a Democrat, is trying to revive the state's political battleground status.

A federal judge in Miami has postponed a hearing on whether social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate should remain in custody.

Democrats are gathering to finalize their 2028 presidential primary calendar this week, setting the stage for a wide-open contest to succeed President Donald Trump and chart a path ahead as the party’s voters oscillate between progressive and more moderate candidates.

Red light cameras in Winter Park generated more than $3 million in violations during the last year, but more than half of that money went to the state of Florida.

Republicans in Minnesota see a chance to regain influence after a fraud scandal rocked state government.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks is facing criticism from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who call it unnecessary and cruel.

The City of Apopka is hitting pause on hiring for vacant city positions, at least for a few months, while officials review city needs and responsibilities. This also comes amid concerns about hiring and the possibility of raising property taxes. The city released a public notice about the hiring freeze on Wednesday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month to spend time with her young family.

A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper’s offices in 2023 that ignited a national furor over press freedom.

Lawyers for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk say he shouldn’t be eligible for the death penalty because the shooter hit the “intended target” during an event attended by thousands of people last year in Utah.

Results in Democratic primaries in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Connecticut have reiterated that Democratic voters are hungry for change, even as they remain divided over the party’s ideological future.

David Crowley’s razor-thin primary win over a democratic socialist in swing state Wisconsin sets up a match against a congressman who has voted with President Donald Trump 100% of the time.

President Donald Trump says White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave the administration at the end of the month to spend more time with her family.

President Donald Trump's executive order to change the childhood vaccine schedule could endear him to some “Make America Healthy Again” voters who want more flexibility on immunization.

For the first time in eight years, Orange County Public Schools is about to get a new leader — and in the only Florida county where voters, not the board itself, choose the school board chair, that choice carries unusual weight. The seat is officially nonpartisan. The race between Alicia Farrant and Angie Gallo has been anything but.

President Donald Trump says he slipped away from Air Force One after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a “different plane” due to a threat.

Medicaid said it won't pay for gender-affirming surgeries or hormones for transgender minors.

Civil rights groups and researchers pleaded at a public hearing Tuesday for a federal agency to continue its annual collection of workplace demographic data.

U.S. inflation slowed last month and a measure of underlying price pressures also cooled, suggesting higher oil and gas prices from the Iran war are only having a limited impact on broader costs in the economy.

A video provided to News 6 appears to show an encounter involving Edgewater Mayor Diezel Depew and a person supporting another candidate in the Edgewater mayoral race. According to New Smyrna Beach police reports, the encounter happened at the New Smyrna Beach Public Library during a dispute over the placement of campaign signs.

Primary elections are taking place in six U.S. states — Alabama, Connecticut, Minnesota, South Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin.

Iran is rejecting comments by President Donald Trump, who said that since Iran is seeking compensation as part of any peace talks, he’ll demand the same.

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has selected a Republican-turned-independent as her running mate in a tough reelection campaign.

The Democratic Party's ideological divide remained unresolved even as the establishment candidate eked out a narrow win in the Wisconsin governor's primary over a democratic socialist.

Sen. Darline Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman have advanced to a runoff in South Carolina’s special Republican primary to replace the late Lindsey Graham in the Senate.

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary in the latest victory for an insurgent progressive over the party’s establishment.

Moderate Democrat David Crowley has won the Wisconsin primary for governor.

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says he'll sue the Trump administration to get his security clearance restored.

Embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller is staying in the race for his Ohio congressional district.

On Monday, U.S. Congressman Randy Fine’s office reported that one of his campaign signs had been vandalized with a swastika symbol.

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, has been sworn in as attorney general after a bruising confirmation fight that exposed bipartisan concerns about the Justice Department’s direction under the Republican president.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots.

“The Dukes of Hazzard” star Ben Jones has died at 84.

Voters in four of Alabama’s seven congressional districts will select U.S. House nominees Tuesday under a new map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts currently represented by Democrats.

Fresh on the heels of Abdul El-Sayed’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary win in Michigan, Wisconsin voters will decide another high-profile clash between the party’s establishment and progressive wings in a gubernatorial primary on Tuesday.

Minnesota Democrats will decide a competitive U.S. Senate primary Tuesday in another face-off between moderate and progressive candidates that could define the party’s identity heading into the midterm elections.

Two veteran Democratic incumbents in Connecticut face strong challenges in a state primary on Tuesday.

Vermont Democrats will try on Tuesday to do something they’ve been unable to do in five previous attempts: nominate a gubernatorial candidate who can beat Republican Gov. Phil Scott.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that certain shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.

Ten Republicans will compete in a special primary election Tuesday in South Carolina to replace the late U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham on the state’s general election ballot.

Progressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s election.

President Donald Trump says Will Scharf will be the new White House counsel, replacing David Warrington.

The Democratic Senate primary in Minnesota is heating up and immigration has become a central issue.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says he's spoken with Barack Obama and hopes the former president will campaign with him.

The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma opened its new Harrah’s-branded casino in April.

Darline Graham, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, is running in a crowded Republican Senate primary on Tuesday.

The Protect College Sports Act failed to reach a vote during an all-night, pre-recess session in the Senate, though the bill did gain a spot on next month’s calendar after the chamber comes back from its summer break.

Troy Jackson's path to politics started during his time as a logger in Maine's north woods.

Senators have headed for the exits in the predawn hours without having met President Donald Trump’s push to pass a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill.

Ahead of the primaries later this month, Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback launched accusations that competitor Byron Donalds was under investigation for sex trafficking — an allegation that federal officials refuted on Friday.

The Senate has passed a short-term measure to keep federal agencies funded into early December and avoid a government shutdown during campaign season.

States are debating whether to crack down on social media influencers making political advertisements without disclosing that they were paid.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is confirming that he’s staying on the nation’s highest court for another term.

Mississippi does not top the list of hotly contested U.S. Senate races this fall.

A federal prosecutor fired last year over critical comments he had written as a private citizen about President Donald Trump has sued the Justice Department, saying his termination violated his First Amendment rights.

A U.S. Senate resolution has added Missouri to the list of teams with a claim to the 1960 national championship in college football.

President Donald Trump has gotten a reprieve in his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC.

Michigan Democrats are showing unity behind their statewide candidates.

An ongoing corruption scandal involving Hawaii’s lieutenant governor looms over Saturday’s state primary as nine candidates jockey to replace her.

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy says he’ll back Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general, likely paving the way for Blanche to be confirmed to lead President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.

Scott Colom is a Black man and a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi, a state traditionally led by white conservatives.

During a news conference this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave a nod to a Republican candidate vying to take over his role.

President Donald Trump loves talking about grass, even in settings where such a topic might seem out of place.

President Donald Trump has hosted the U.S. Winter Olympians and Paralympians at the White House, honoring their accomplishments in the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games.

Ahead of the primaries later this month, Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback has launched accusations that competitor Byron Donalds is under federal investigation for sex trafficking.

The new orders seek to combat "birth tourism," with several new rules aiming to crack down on the practice.

President Donald Trump says he is once again trying to limit birthright citizenship in the U.S. He signed two executive actions on immigration.

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he’s been discharged from a rehabilitation center and will continue his recovery from home.

Republican Sen. Jon Husted of Ohio is calling on Rep. Max Miller to resign his House seat and abandon his fall reelection bid.

With less than two weeks before the primary election, candidates for the highly contested Congressional District 7 took on several issues on Thursday in Lake Mary. The forum focused on topics facing the business community, such as taxes, government contracting, and technology.

Six years after the world was thrust into a global pandemic, Republicans in power aren’t leaving it in the past.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood took to social media to accuse prosecutors in Orange and Osceola counties of being too lenient with a teen who is now accused of killing two people in DeLand. Chitwood’s post also put him in the middle of the ongoing feud between State Attorney Monique Worrell and Florida State Attorney James Uthmeier.

At the same time Kissimmee voters will choose two of their five city commissioners during the Aug. 18 primary, they will also determine whether those elected officials will be able to serve an extra term before they have to step down from the dais, at least temporarily. Voters will also decide if their successors must be subject to a criminal background check to even get on future ballots.

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to overhaul Head Start, a key early education program for the nation's neediest children.

A Senate committee has voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress and refer him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing last week on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans are increasingly noticing the impact of extreme heat on their lives, and they say much of that shift is happening in the West and Midwest.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced he has subpoenaed Dr. Anthony Fauci following his time as former chief medical adviser during the COVID-19 pandemic.

After state lawmakers approved a tweaked version of a new property tax amendment, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took to social media to highlight the differences between his plan and theirs.

Wisconsin is the latest state where the battle over the direction of the Democratic Party will play out.

Former Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher has defeated Congressman Andy Ogles in a Republican primary.

Republican Rep. Max Miller of Ohio is resisting pressure to exit his reelection campaign for Congress, even as anxiety over his electability is growing within his own party.

Michael Fuqua couldn't immediately recall the name of the candidate he voted for in Michigan's 13th Congressional District primary.

Moms for Liberty changed the political make-up of school boards across the state of Florida through a commitment to endorsing school board candidates. Today, Moms for Liberty Florida has not made any contributions to local school board candidates across Florida and is poised to be just a minor player this cycle, according to campaign finance records, interviews with former local members and experts on culture war movements and a survey of public social media pages for local chapters, some of which are now defunct.

Dr. Erica Schwartz has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Jeanine Pirro this week found out there’s a trade-off between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality.

A California man who was arrested at President Donald Trump’s Los Angeles-area golf course was pretending to be part of the security detail preparing for Trump’s visit and had a stash of illegal weapons in his car and home.

A recently approved park expansion in Volusia County marks a final step toward the state’s goal to protect land surrounding North Peninsula State Park. But the county’s plans for improving Highbridge Park could be derailed if Florida voters approve a proposed property tax overhaul this November.

A federal survey shows that, on average, U.S. households spent 12% of the family budget on food in 2024. For very-low-income households, it was 33%. And over the past year, as food costs continued to rise, a new federal law pushed hundreds of thousands of Floridians out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, America’s food security safety net. This article from Central Florida Public Media looks at those issues. It also focuses on the congressional options one voter affected by food insecurity will have on this year’s General Election ballot.

Republican candidate for Congress Dr. Nizam Razack says he has received death threats because he is Muslim. The candidate, a neurosurgeon from Orlando, is running in the U.S. House District 11 Republican primary. A report about a July 10 incident (completely redacted because a criminal investigation is in progress) was filed with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Razack told VoxPopuli that OCSO had advised him not to campaign door-to-door for his own safety. He has since hired his own security to accompany him to campaign events.

Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state.

President Donald Trump is making a rare appearance in Nevada to sell voters on his handling of the economy against a backdrop of high interest rates, a national housing shortage and gasoline made more expensive by the Iran war.

North Carolina Republican congressman Chuck Edwards has withdrawn from his reelection campaign days after the House Ethics Committee recommended he be censured for unprofessional and inappropriate conduct toward two young female aides.

The Word of Life Center, a church in Salisbury, Maryland, is facing difficult times.