Jaywalking is now legal in New York City.

The hours and days immediately after Election Day are likely to pose the greatest opportunity for anyone looking to mislead and deceive U.S. voters.

London Breed became the first Black woman elected mayor of San Francisco six years ago.

New York City is speeding up its switch to a new schools chief after Mayor Eric Adams' indictment.

The head of the U.S. government's cybersecurity agency says security for the nation’s election systems has become so robust that Russia, Iran or any other foreign adversary won't be able to alter the outcome of this year’s presidential race.

News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton and political analyst Daniel Cronrath discussed the biggest takeaways from the debate.

Former president Jimmy Carter has reached his 100th birthday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has visited the Pennsylvania ammunition factory that is producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country’s fight to fend off Russian ground forces.

A survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USAFacts finds that a majority of Americans don't trust generative artificial intelligence models to give them accurate answers.

Vice President Kamala Harris plans a four-day campaign trip through major swing states after the Democrat’s debate with Republican Donald Trump.

Former Ohio health director Amy Acton says she's considering a run for governor in 2026.

2024 primary election results for U.S. House races in northeast Florida

2024 primary election results for Florida Senate & Florida House races around northeast Florida

A top Democrat in the U.S. House says it will take a shift of power in Congress to ensure that legislation is finally passed to extend and expand a compensation program for people exposed to radiation following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out by the federal government.

The Senate’s top Democrat says he'll work to block a plan that would significantly cut the proposed budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Two Republicans are running for this seat. Because no Democrat or other candidate signed up to run, the August primary is open to all voters.

Houston area residents are remembering longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas as an advocate for human rights and for her community.

Mayor Donna Deegan completed her first full year in office. What's ahead in year two? Democrat Rahman Johnson joins the conversation, giving his perspective on the political question of the year: Should President Joe Biden continue his run for reelection?

A leading House Democrat is preparing a constitutional amendment in response to the Supreme Court’s landmark immunity ruling.

The defense for Sen. Bob Menendez has rested without the New Jersey Democrat testifying at his New York bribery trial.

At least one mystery about President Joe Biden’s often convoluted answers during the presidential debate has been solved.

San Francisco’s mayor says the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in public spaces will allow the city to begin clearing homeless encampments that have plagued the city.

New York's governor has signed a bill that would allow parents to block their children from getting social media posts suggested by a platform’s algorithm, a move to limit feeds critics argue are addictive.

New Jersey's top federal prosecutor says Sen. Bob Menendez sought to discuss the prosecution of a New Jersey real estate developer with him before recommending him to be nominated as U.S. attorney after Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was treated at a hospital for a bruised shoulder after a car accident Sunday morning, according to a statement from his Senate office.

Back in 2016, Donald Trump famously said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters because of it.

A federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to a local school board in Pennsylvania's coal region is unfairly shutting Latino voters out of power.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has signed two measures into law to better protect personal data online from Big Tech. One of the bills signed Thursday will make Maryland the second state to create strong limits on information collected on children, though the first in California has been halted in court.

First lady Jill Biden says her husband has pushed numerous efforts in his administration to advocate for the U.S. military during an event where veterans who were wounded after 9/11 started an annual bike ride from the White House.

A bill in California wants to make more rental housing available to tenants with pets.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to hold a news conference Wednesday morning in South Florida.

A Virginia congressman has gone back to college to study artificial intelligence so he can help regulate it.

The wife of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is seeking a delay to her criminal trial next month, saying a newly diagnosed and serious medical condition requires surgery within six weeks.

A Maryland senator says a third channel will open this month at Baltimore’s port after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse two weeks ago.

U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva has announced that he has been diagnosed with cancer, but he says he is continuing to work as he undergoes treatment.

New York City’s mayor has nixed a planned trip to the U.S.-Mexico over security concerns.

New bipartisan legislation introduced in the House would require the identification and labeling of online content generated using artificial intelligence.

An attorney for Donald Trump says he’s optimistic an appellate review will lead to the Georgia 2020 election interference case against him being dismissed and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis being disqualified.

Former President Donald Trump and other defendants in Georgia’s election interference case are seeking to appeal a judge’s ruling not to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from their prosecution.

A California lawmaker is trying to get the state Legislature to rethink policymaking by creating a committee to study how to make people happier.

Restitution for decades of abuse at two now-shuttered reform schools where boys were beaten, raped and killed is now in the hands of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Judges some places don't grant divorces when one of the parties is pregnant — and one Missouri lawmaker is trying to change that, at least in her state.

Reginald Luster, a Jacksonville lawyer who tried to run for a U.S. Senate nomination as a Democrat in 2016, has been disbarred following a court order earlier this month.

The Environmental Protection Agency says 25 toxic waste sites in 15 states will be cleaned up as part of a $1 billion infusion to the federal Superfund program.

The Maryland House has voted for a measure to enable people to buy health insurance through the state’s health care exchange regardless of their immigration status, with the approval of a federal waiver.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is outlining a $52.7 billion state spending plan with more money for the migrant crisis, education and quantum computing.

About half of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. believe the country is giving too much support of Israelis and not enough for Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza.

NYPD officers will have to record the race of people they question under new police transparency law.

The U.S. Justice Department has reached a settlement with the state of New York to resolve a sexual harassment investigation of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

A proposed high-speed passenger train between Las Vegas and Southern California has gotten another boost.

Amid a tough reelection fight, Mayor London Breed has declined to veto a non-binding resolution from the San Francisco supervisors calling for an extended cease-fire in Gaza.

A Republican member of the Maryland State Board of Elections is resigning after being arrested by the FBI this week on felony and misdemeanor charges relating to his alleged conduct during the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has again vetoed legislation that would have changed the state’s wrongful death statute by letting families recover damages for emotional suffering from the death of a loved one.

A federal judge has rejected U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's request to delay his bribery trial by two months.

Federal prosecutors say a judge should reject U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's request to delay his bribery trial by two months.

U.S. auto safety regulators say they have taken the first step toward requiring devices in vehicles that prevent drunk or impaired driving.

The killing of a visiting nurse in Connecticut is sparking renewed calls to better protect health care workers from what has been a rise in violence across the country.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's recent trip to China was highlighted by a surprise meeting with leader Xi Jinping.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide during the onset of the pandemic and the sexual harassment scandal that forced Cuomo from office in 2021 has written a memoir.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at limiting the price of insulin.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he plans to sign into law a pair of climate-focused bills intended to force major corporations to be more transparent about greenhouse gas emissions and the financial risks stemming from global warming.

President Joe Biden is touting his administration's efforts to lower medical costs.

Saying her nominee for general counsel is “facing a smear campaign,” Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan held a news conference Wednesday to rally support for Randy DeFoor’s appointment.

Former City Council member Randy DeFoor is Mayor Donna Deegan’s pick to become Jacksonville’s next general counsel. But it’s DeFoor’s former role as a city council member that might be the problem.

The NFL has responded to a Nevada congresswoman’s inquiries about the league’s gambling policies with a detailed letter that includes a call for lawmakers and law enforcement to pay additional attention to illegal gambling and put more resources toward combating it.

Kimberly Daniels, a Democrat and member of the Florida House of Representatives from Jacksonville, is set to hold a news conference Thursday at noon to address her role on the African American Task Force.

Congress will vote this week on legislation that will shape the agency responsible for safely managing the nation’s airspace and regulating its airlines.

A prosecutor has added felony charges, including attempted sexual assault, against a man accused of attacking Connecticut’s first Muslim state representative after a prayer service.

A legal challenge has been filed to block Iowa’s new legislation banning most abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.

A new grand jury sworn in Tuesday in Atlanta will likely consider whether criminal charges are appropriate for former President Donald Trump or his allies for their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia.

Democrat Donna Deegan will be sworn in on July 1 but already her new administration is looking at changes in how the city will operate.

Former Texas congressman Will Hurd says he's running for president and calls Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump a “failed politician” who lost the House, the Senate and the White House.

A prosecutor has closed a multiyear investigation into whether former President Donald Trump, or his company, misled authorities to reduce taxes on properties they own in the New York City suburbs.

White House announced Rep. Crist as nominee for ambassador post

A Florida law banning transgender youth from getting medical treatment is temporarily on hold after a surprise decision by a federal judge.

A controversial bill — that at one point had been presumed dead — banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths in Louisiana was passed by the Senate on Monday and is likely to reach the governor’s desk.

A former Connecticut state representative has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for stealing more than $1.2 million from the city of West Haven, most of it federal-related coronavirus aid.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed legislation that will ban discrimination based on body size by adding weight and height to the list of protected categories such as race, sex and religion.

A judge has rejected Kari Lake’s remaining legal claim challenging her loss in the race for Arizona governor.

California legislative committees in the Assembly and Senate blocked two big climate bills Thursday.

While most eyes were on the mayor’s race Tuesday — which was clenched by Democrat Donna Deegan — seven City Council seats and the race for property appraiser were also in runoffs after the first election in March.

Early voting for Jacksonville elections came to a close Sunday evening.

The Mayoral Candidate Forum is happening Wednesday night at 7 p.m. at the WJXT-4 studios. Kent Justice along with journalists from First Coast News, WJCT and the Florida Times Union will ask questions to one of the two candidates, Democrat Donna Deegan. Both candidates, Deegan and Republican Daniel Davis were invited months ago. Deegan accepted, Davis declined.

Growing anger at the FBI from both parties in Congress has become a major hurdle for U.S. intelligence agencies fighting to keep vast powers to collect foreign communications.

The prosecutor investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia says she expects to announce charging decisions in the case this summer and is urging “heightened security.”.

Outside of JEA and affordable housing, one issue during this election season that has come up a lot has been Confederate monuments and the lack of action by the city to remove them.

In less than a month, Jacksonville residents will elect a new mayor in a runoff election and the latest polls show the race is neck and neck between Republican Daniel Davis and Democrat Donna Deegan.

A court ruling this week keeps an abortion pill available, clarifying the U.S. abortion landscape but not settling it.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut says he expects to undergo surgery to repair a broken leg he suffered Saturday during a victory parade for the University of Connecticut men's basketball team.

Native American tribal members fighting plans for an enormous copper mine on land they consider sacred say they are increasingly worried U.S. officials will move forward on the project even as they await a federal appellate court ruling in the case.

Just years after labor activists persuaded a handful of states to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour, workers initially thrilled with the pay bump are finding their hard-won gains erased by inflation.

See how precincts in your neighborhood voted in the first election for Jacksonville mayor

Results of the 2023 races for Jacksonville City Council At-large, Duval County property appraiser.

The race for Jacksonville’s mayor is not over yet as two candidates will move on to the general election in May. It remains to be seen how things will play out for voters who supported candidates outside of those top two.

Results of the 2023 races for Jacksonville City Council At-large, Duval County property appraiser.

Legislation moving in the Florida House would ban discussion of menstrual cycles and other human sexuality topics in elementary grades.

As voters finish early voting in Jacksonville and prepare for Election Day next Tuesday, three candidates are vying for residents’ vote for Duval County property appraiser.

A regulatory takeover of a New York-based bank was intended to send a message to banks to stay away from the cryptocurrency business.

Lawmakers and voters in North Carolina have rejected past efforts to remove from the state constitution an unenforceable literacy test requirement that had been used to disenfranchise Black voters during the Jim Crow era.

Congressman Joaquin Castro of Texas says he is recovering after undergoing cancer surgery in Houston.