More than one month after ending the regular session without passing a budget, legislative leaders said Thursday they have a deal on top-line spending levels and plans for a May special session to pass the bill that funds the Florida government.

President Donald Trump is having the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool coated in a swimming pool surface hued in “American flag blue,” covering a decades-old granite surface that he said was “leaking like a sieve” and would take years to replace.

President Donald Trump, known for popularizing the term "fake news," seems to have shifted focus to a healthy dose of fake math in defending impossibly large cuts to prescription drug prices.

A U.S. soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market.

A Republican congressman has introduced legislation that would expand the borders of Washington, D.C., and cost Virginia Democratic voters.

President Donald Trump says he is weighing a taxpayer takeover of Spirit Airlines and would aim to resell the troubled carrier after oil prices drop.

President Donald Trump has announced a deal with Regeneron to lower the cost of its pharmaceutical products.

For the first time as president, Donald Trump is planning to attend the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington this weekend.

The governor is expected to speak at 10 a.m. at Tohopekaliga High School and will be joined by Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas.

A new AP-NORC poll finds many of the groups that helped elect Donald Trump as president again are deeply unhappy with his performance.

On Wednesday, DeSantis said that "White males" have been the No. 1 "disfavored group" of DEI initiatives after he signed a ban on local governments from implementing such policies.

With his term coming to an end, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has reportedly looked to President Trump for a position in his administration.

This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new law that discusses how drivers may frame their license plates.

The Senate has taken the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections.

The New York Times says it has learned that the FBI investigated one of its reporters, Elizabeth Williamson, after she wrote about its agents being assigned to protect and transport the girlfriend of that agency's director, Kash Patel.

Three congressional candidates are accused of betting on their own elections through the prediction market Kalshi.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had an old friend drop by on the final day of preparations for the NFL draft: former President Bill Clinton.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is working on a book inspired in part by a massive immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis-St. Paul earlier this year and the local pushback.

Democrats are celebrating an election win in Virginia that could put them slightly ahead in the national redistricting competition that President Donald Trump triggered in an attempt to preserve his party’s House majority in this year’s midterms.

Georgia's Democratic congressman David Scott has died at age 80.

More kids than ever are attending state-funded preschool in the U.S., 1.8 million of them the last school year.

The Kansas City Royals are moving from Kauffman Stadium to downtown Crown Center.

Rhode Island has moved its primary elections to Wednesday, Sept. 9, to avoid conflict with Labor Day.

Florida’s inquiry into OpenAI’s involvement in the mass shooting at Florida State University last year is now a criminal investigation, Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday.

An appeals court has decided that an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will remain open.

This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis received a batch of 20 new bills, which could soon become law.

Six leading candidates for California governor are jostling for advantage in a chaotic race with no clear leader.

A Republican senator juggling three roles — lawmaker, doctor and political candidate seeking reelection — has walked a fine line as he questioned Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sen. Bill Cassidy supported Kennedy's confirmation as health secretary but is a strong vaccine advocate and has clashed with him over vaccine policies.

The board voted Tuesday to further investigate both ethics complaints.

President Donald Trump repeated his call for Congress to pass legislation that would rein in college sports at a time athletes are allowed to move freely from school to school and command salaries that put athletic departments in financial peril.

President Donald Trump is nominating University of Minnesota economist Christopher Phelan as the next chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

A former Missouri lawmaker who was censured over sexual misconduct allegations has won a court case to recoup thousands of dollars seized from his salary as a penalty.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-South Carolina, introduced the resolution, accusing Rep. Cory Mills, R-New Smyrna Beach, of sexual misconduct, profiting off federal contracts, and of stolen valor. She wants him expelled from Congress.

President Donald Trump has read a notable Bible passage in a livestreamed marathon.

Orange County Commissioners will likely face renewed pressure from opponents on Tuesday over the county’s agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has resigned, doing so just moments before the start of a hearing that could have led to a recommendation that she be expelled from Congress.

The Human Rights Campaign is launching a $15 million investment targeting Republicans in battleground districts ahead of the fall's midterm elections.

The new "History of Communism" class coming to Florida schools later this year will now also discuss Nicolas Maduro, among many other topics, a state memo reveals.

On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed another two bills into law, adding to the growing list of legislation approved so far this year.

Virginia voters have approved a congressional redistricting plan that could help Democrats win up to four additional U.S. House seats in this year’s midterm elections.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve says that he never promised the White House he would cut interest rates, even as the president renewed his calls for the central bank to do so.

The Justice Department has filed a complaint against Washington, D.C., and its water authority for a massive sewage leak into the Potomac River.

The U.S. Justice Department has demanded hundreds of thousands of ballots and related records from the Detroit area from the 2024 election.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet after multiple allegations of abusing her position, including an affair with a subordinate and drinking on the job.

A Pennsylvania court has ruled that the state's constitution guarantees a right to abortion.

FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic magazine and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick, contending its article posted last week that talked about his alleged excessive drinking was a “malicious hit piece.”.

Virginia voters are considering a ballot measure Tuesday that would give the Democratic-majority legislature temporary power to redraw the state’s congressional districts.

The American Library Association says book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs.

The new crackdown comes thanks to a new pilot program, which allows states to block the purchases of certain goods under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

A refund system for businesses that paid tariffs which the U.S. Supreme Court eventually struck down has launched.

A political bribery scandal in Ohio is shadowing Jon Husted this election year.

Doug Fiefia once worked at Google.

In the wide-open race for California governor, billionaire Tom Steyer is on a spending binge.

Former President Barack Obama has met privately with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani before joining together to read to preschoolers at a child care center in the Bronx.

President Donald Trump has signed a bill extending a controversial surveillance program until April 30.

Much of the political spotlight this election year in Arizona has been focused on the office that runs elections in Maricopa County, the state’s largest.

Some of the harshest words that President Donald Trump has used against a leading Democratic rival aren't about political differences but rather a learning disability.

President Donald Trump's influence on the Republican Party is facing a test in Indiana's upcoming primary.

A new law named after Charlie Kirk is encouraging Tennessee teachers to include the positive impacts of religion in American history classes.

A lead prosecutor in the John Brennan investigation has been removed from the case after expressing concerns to Justice Department officials about the viability of a potential criminal prosecution of the former CIA director.

Oil prices plunged and the stock market rallied after U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister said that the Strait of Hormuz is fully open.

A federal judge has sentenced a former Wisconsin man to 20 months in prison for making campaign contributions after renouncing his U.S. citizenship.

A federal judge in Rhode Island has dismissed the Trump administration's lawsuit demanding the state's unredacted voter rolls.

The Trump administration says it’s in talks with the IRS to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax information.

The top election official in Arizona’s most populous county will get more authority in running elections after a judge sided with his office in a prolonged legal fight with the county board that shares responsibility for overseeing voting.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to discuss the company's new AI model, Mythos.

A West Virginia transgender girl who competes on her high school girls' track team says she's focused on having fun with her friends.

Sky-high ticket prices won’t be the only thing emptying the wallets of soccer fans attending World Cup matches at some U.S. venues this spring.

A controversy has erupted over prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi.

Cameras in U.S. courtrooms have offered the world a portal into the inner workings of notorious criminal proceedings.

Democrats running for governor in Georgia are scrambling for attention and cash.

President Donald Trump is more overtly leaning into some of the spoils of his office in his second term, drawing comparisons to French Queen Marie Antoinette from political opponents.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill conducted a roundtable with leading AI executives and academics to discuss the potential transformative impacts of the technology on American society.

The U.S. is urging other nations to back a “trade over aid” initiative at the United Nations as part of the Trump administration’s broader shift away from donor-focused development assistance and toward greater private investment.

During a contentious era, one of journalism's leading figures says he's concerned about news outlets that may be losing their moral compass.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, is likely to face tough questions about his vast financial holdings at a hearing next week by the Senate Banking Committee.

New York will lose more than $73.5 million in federal money because the Transportation Department says that state has refused to revoke nearly 33,000 questionable commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants since an audit uncovered problems last year.

A new Gallup poll shows more young men in the U.S. now say religion is “very important” in their lives compared to young women.

This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for state lawmakers to return for a special session.

Democrats are boasting of eye-popping fundraising hauls in some of this year's most competitive Senate contests.

President Donald Trump is betting that the tax cuts he signed into law last year will resonate with voters in Las Vegas.

New Jersey Democrat Analilia Mejía has won a special election to fill the U.S. House seat that was vacated by Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill after she was voted into that office.

More than three dozen Democrats supported an effort by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to block arms sales to Israel, signaling a growing discontent in the party with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the wars in Gaza and Iran.

President Donald Trump turned a tax policy into a political stage prop this week, using a DoorDash delivery to the Oval Office to promote his “no tax on tips” message before the federal filing deadline. A recent analysis, however, shows few households benefit because they earn too little to owe taxes in the first place.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Wednesday that Iran will participate in the World Cup “for sure” despite its war with the United States.

In a story published April 15, 2026, about a French national detained by U.S. immigration agents, The Associated Press erroneously reported the age of Marie-Therese Ross.

The Trump administration is setting the stage to shift its war campaign toward a more economically focused effort aimed at choking Tehran into submission rather than relying on bombs alone.

For months, New York Gov_ Kathy Hochul has resisted calls to increase taxes on the wealthy, beating back progressives who have hounded her from Manhattan to San Juan bellowing chants of “tax the rich.”.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered an attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration.

A lawyer says guards severely beat and pepper-sprayed detainees at a state-run immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades.

New York launched ambitious goals to cut its long-term greenhouse gas emissions with clarion calls about saving the future.

Federal prosecutors made an unannounced visit this week to a construction site at Federal Reserve headquarters that is the focus of an investigation into a $2.5 billion renovation project, according to two people familiar with the visit.

The tax filing deadline for most Americans is Wednesday, and President Donald Trump's administration is highlighting the impacts of Republicans' massive tax and spending law.

A special election in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District on Thursday will fill the House seat most recently held by Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

Dearborn, Michigan, home to the nation's largest Arab American community, is grappling with ongoing crises.

A man running for Florida governor was arrested earlier this month, and newly released footage shows more of what happened.

Of the new laws signed on Tuesday, one designates a Florida highway as the "President Donald J. Trump Highway."

Resignations came quickly this week from two congressmen accused of sexual misconduct toward staff members.

Vice President JD Vance used a Turning Point USA event to defend President Donald Trump’s aggression in Iran and play down the resulting tensions between Washington and the Vatican.