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When Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asked Texas colleges to disavow critical race theory, the University of Texas faculty approved a resolution defending their freedom to decide for themselves how to [...]

The Lincoln Project continues to offer strong takes in the wake of the installation of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy early Saturday morning. The reformed Republican ‘Never Trumpers’ are excoriating the so-called [...]

Former state Rep. Ray Pilon is running for Sarasota County Commission in District 1. “It’s time for a change. We can’t change the past but we can plan for a better [...]

Florida Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost is the first Gen Z member of the House of Representatives, and after being sworn in, he reflected on the achievement. “I’ve been organizing for a [...]

China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government’s policies on the COVID-19 outbreak, as the country moves to roll back harsh [...]

A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky. NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.” Most of the 5,400-pound (2,450-kilogram) [...]

Jacksonville politicians who diverge ideologically are united behind the hometown Jaguars ahead of Saturday night’s tilt with the Tennessee Titans. Republican and Democratic mayoral candidates alike are enthusiastic about the [...]

Six new members of the Florida congressional delegation were sworn into the House of Representations early Saturday morning. Reps. Aaron Bean, Maxwell Alejandro Frost, Laurel Lee, Anna Paulina Luna, Cory Mills, and Jared Moskowitz took office four days [...]

U.S. Rep.-elect Matt Gaetz through Friday was still a holdout unwilling to support California Republican Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House. Even as an apparent deal had been reached Friday [...]

U.S. Rep.-elect Kevin McCarthy won election as Speaker of the House. The California Republicans secured 216 votes in the 435-seat chamber early Saturday. Thanks to a half dozen abstentions, that [...]

In the aftermath of a 2022 midterm walloping that saw Republicans gain major ground in Miami-Dade County for the first time in decades, a group of Democrats are calling for [...]

After an influx of migrants from Cuba and Haiti swamped local and federal resources in South Florida recently, Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency, activated the National Guard, [...]

A plan is in the making for the state to take over management of the special district governing Walt Disney World. A notice on the Osceola County Property Appraiser website [...]

A majority of voting Jacksonville Association of Fire Fighters (JAFF) members backed the union leadership pick of Daniel Davis for Jacksonville Mayor. But it wasn’t enough to score the official [...]

He will work in the firm's Florida and Washington, D.C. offices.Global bipartisan public strategy firm Mercury has hired Trent Morse as a Senior Vice President in their Florida and Washington, [...]

Harvey Ruvin, the late Miami-Dade County Clerk of Courts, was relatively diminutive in stature. But to those who knew him, he was a veritable titan who left an indelible impact [...]

U.S. Rep.-elect Matt Gaetz has switched his vote for Speaker. He nominated former President Donald Trump to lead the House. (Note: All House members currently bear the title of “Rep.-elect” until [...]

In the journalism world, a “mug shot” refers to a photo of a subject’s face and a bit of torso. But in the case of longtime journalist Margaret Leonard — [...]

Heading into a third day of Speaker votes, veterans in Florida’s congressional delegation stressed that colleagues must remember consequences to delays. “We currently have ZERO oversight of the (Joe) Biden [...]

With just days to go before qualifying for Jacksonville’s municipal elections, a federal judge has granted the city’s motion to relax residency rules in the Charter, contending a “potential for [...]

Much of America learned about Rep.-elect Byron Donalds when the Naples Republican emerged as an alternative for House Speaker. He received 20 votes on three separate ballots on Wednesday alone, [...]

A seventh vote for the Speaker of the House won’t happen until Thursday. But Rep.-elect Matt Gaetz said he would stay on the floor all night and suggested a delay [...]

While state disaster recovery workers have pushed to clean up and rebuild Southwest Florida and other parts of the state hit hard by Hurricane Ian last year, a combination of [...]

Leek is the first to file for SD 7.Rep. Tom Leek has filed to run for Senate District 7, which will be on the ballot in 2024. Leek, an Ormond [...]

Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, a professor of medicine at the University of Florida, used a faulty analysis and may have violated the school’s research integrity rules by citing a non-peer-reviewed [...]