President-elect Donald Trump launched a blitz of picks for his Cabinet, but he took his time settling on billionaire investor Scott Bessent as his choice for treasury secretary.

Trump says he will nominate former Florida AG Pam Bondi to be US Attorney General after first pick, Matt Gaetz, withdrew.

The push to get high school coaches in Florida more supplemental pay will pick up in the coming months and the legislator heading it up sees a real possibility of change in the coming years.

The Texas State Board of Education has given initial approval to a Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for public schools to adopt for lessons from kindergarten through fifth grade.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul says he was briefly detained by police at an airport near Washington, D.

Donald Trump returned to Washington on Wednesday as president-elect where he headed to the White House for the first time in four years.

Rep. Mike Johnson has won the Republican nomination to remain as House speaker, on track to keep the gavel after a morning endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump ahead of a full House vote in the new year.

Georgia House Republicans will keep their leadership team for the next two years.

Former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm is paralyzed from the chest down after being thrown from a horse during a polo tournament.

The Arizona Supreme Court has declined an emergency request to extend the deadline for voters to fix problems with mail-in ballots.

Donald Trump announced on Saturday that his inaugural committee will be chaired by Florida real estate investor Steven Witkoff and former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler.

Republican Arizona legislator Justin Heap has been elected to oversee elections in the state’s most populous county.

The House is expected to try next week to pass a Social Security-related bill to ensure benefits for workers who are also eligible for other pensions.

President-elect Donald Trump put billionaire Elon Musk on the line with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when the Ukrainian leader called to congratulate the incoming U.S. president.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” is selling again.

Donald Trump's election victory was history-making in several respects even as his defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris prevented other firsts.

Donald Trump’s presidential win is going to be certified in Congress in January by the candidate he beat, Vice President Kamala Harris.

The parent company of Donald Trump’s social networking site Truth Social lost $19.2 million in the last quarter, according to an earnings report released on the same day he won back the presidency.

A disaffected electorate wanted former President Donald Trump to return to the White House, a blatant rejection of Vice President Kamala Harris and her nearly four years with President Joe Biden.

Republican voters in North Carolina cast ballots in greater numbers than four years ago, while Democratic turnout sagged.

He fended off a challenge from Kamala Harris, who was looking to flip the state and expand her pathways to 270 electoral votes.

Republican Michelle Cook will remain Clay County sheriff for another four years after beating out her opponent, former Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels for a second time.

Donald Trump is refusing to say how he voted on Florida’s abortion measure and he's getting testy about it.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has won her reelection bid.

Donald Trump has campaigned with NFL legend Brett Favre at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

A federal appeals court says the National Labor Relations Board was wrong to order that Tesla CEO Elon Musk delete a 2018 social media post that union leaders saw as a threat to employee stock options.

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal to remove Robert F.

Elon Musk’s political action committee has created an ad attacking Vice President Kamala Harris that includes multiple references to a vulgarity often used to demean women as well as calling her a communist.

Democrats are spending about $500,000 for a last-minute push to persuade voters in battleground states to reject third-party candidates Jill Stein and Cornel West.

With space flight becoming more prevalent, a longtime pro wrestler has requested SpaceX owner Elon Musk allow him to be in the first wrestling match in space.

The Democratic Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against former President Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election faces a rare Republican challenger in her bid for reelection.

At least two dozen states have passed or proposed “alien land laws” targeting Chinese nationals and companies from purchasing property or land because of China’s status as a foreign adversary.

Donald Trump has further denigrated Detroit while appealing for votes in a suburb of the largest city in swing state Michigan.

The U.S. Army has released an almost entirely redacted version of the police report describing when a staffer for Donald Trump’s campaign reportedly shoved an Arlington National Cemetery employee.

Officials in a Pennsylvania county say an investigation is underway after election workers identified about 2,500 voter registration forms that may be fraudulent.

The Biden administration is moving ahead with a new path to student loan cancellation for Americans who face steep medical bills, child care costs and other types of financial hardship that prevent them from repaying their loans.

Democrats backing Rep. Colin Allred’s bid to defeat Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are investing $5 million in an ad campaign focused on abortion.

None of the nation’s 12 female governors are up for reelection, but five women are competing as major party gubernatorial nominees in four states.

The U.S. Postal Service says it has reopened all of its mail processing centers in areas of Florida and North Carolina hit by recent hurricanes.

When he was president, Donald Trump remade the Supreme Court with three nominees, and in the process shifted the court's ideological balance to the conservative right.

Former President Donald Trump will conduct an interview with Joe Rogan for his popular podcast on Friday.

McDonald’s says it agreed to host former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania store over the weekend but that it isn’t endorsing a candidate in the U.S. presidential race.

Kamala Harris’ campaign and affiliated Democratic committees raised more than $359 million in September alone and about $633 million for the quarter ending Sept. 30.

A member of one of Ohio's best-known Republican families has thrown his support behind Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in his hotly contested reelection race against GOP nominee Bernie Moreno.

Donald Trump paced his rally stage in silence for nearly 20 minutes Friday night in Detroit after his microphone cut out.

Fox News anchor Bret Baier says he “made a mistake” during his interview with Kamala Harris in not airing video of a controversial Donald Trump comment — but it wasn't fully clear what the mistake was.

A group of Republican lawmakers is demanding a federal investigation into the U.S. consulting firm McKinsey over its work with the Chinese government and state-owned enterprises.

Fox News says none of its employees wrote jokes for Donald Trump to use at an appearance this week — denying an assertion made by the former president himself.

Voters in nine states are deciding next month whether to add the right to abortion to their constitutions.

Donald Trump has offered uncharacteristic personal compliments of Democratic opponent Kamala Harris, noting her ability to “survive" — though it came with a subtle jab.

Two men who were shot during the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump this summer say the U.S. Secret Service failed in protecting the former president and other bystanders at the campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Local officials say former President Donald Trump’s campaign still owes a central Minnesota city nearly $209,000 for services related to a July campaign rally.

Former President Donald Trump is continuing to use violent language when confronted by protesters at his rallies.

Ohio's close Senate race took a twist recently when cellphone video surfaced of Republican Bernie Moreno criticizing women whose votes are driven by the abortion issue.

Republican Donald Trump mixed up Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ gender on a phone call with supporters in Maine.

Residents in North Carolina’s Watauga County are focused on survival rather than politics after Hurricane Helene ravaged much of the western part of the state.

Thousands of supporters returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday to rally around Donald Trump at the same site where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July.

A federal judge in Missouri put a temporary hold on President Joe Biden’s latest student loan cancellation plan on Thursday, slamming the door on hope it would move forward after another judge allowed a pause to expire.

Former President Donald Trump has raised $160 million for his campaign in September and entered October with $283 million in the bank for the campaign’s final sprint.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Republican challenger David McCormick have held the first debate in their race for a swing-state seat.

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

CBS News says Donald Trump has declined to participate in an interview with “60 Minutes” that was scheduled to air next Monday.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has a reputation for being informed, articulate and all but unflappable.

The Supreme Court has refused an emergency appeal from Robert F.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio are meeting Tuesday for their first and only scheduled vice presidential debate.

House Republicans have voted to condemn President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The leader of a nonprofit representing the Haitian community has invoked a private-citizen right to file charges against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance.

Congressional leaders have a deal on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months.

Vice President Kamala Harris will skip this year’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York.

Putnam County Sheriff H.D. “Gator” DeLoach, a Republican, is seeking re-election this year. He faces no Republican or Democratic challengers, though there is one other candidate running without party affiliation, Edison Edison. As there are no primaries in this race, it will not appear on the ballot until the November general election.

A federal law enforcement agency confirmed it’s opened an investigation into Robert F.

Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans are blaming comments made by Democrats that he is a threat to democracy for the unprecedented attacks on him, the latest coming over the weekend.

The families of four Americans detained in China say their loved ones are suffering both physically and mentally, and they are urging the U.S. government to take action to bring then home.

Nassau County officials say social media reports that explosives were found in a car near former President Donald Trump’s New York rally on Long Island just days after the second apparent assassination attempt on him are false.

Representatives for former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris’ transition teams met for the first time at the White House, the Biden administration announced Wednesday, as the outgoing administration plans to smooth the handoff to whomever wins in November.

Former President Donald Trump has repeated false claims that Chinese automakers are putting up large factories in Mexico.

The Mexican pop-rock band Maná has removed its 2016 song with Nicky Jam after the Puerto Rican reggaeton singer expressed his support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday introduced legislation that would prohibit political campaigns and outside political groups from using artificial intelligence to misrepresent the views of their rivals by pretending to be them.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has launched his family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, with an interview on the X social media platform.

Former President Donald Trump plans to deliver remarks next Monday about cryptocurrency and the launch of the company World Liberty Financial, a crypto platform controlled by the Republican nominee’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric.

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. jumped Friday after former President Donald Trump said he won’t sell shares of the company, saying that he doesn't need the money and likes the social media platform to get out his voice.

A new report says former University of Florida president Ben Sasse spent over $1.3 million on private catering for lavish dinners, football tailgates and extravagant social functions.

It can get to be too much.

Former President Donald Trump plans to deliver remarks next Monday about cryptocurrency and the launch of the company World Liberty Financial, a crypto platform controlled by the Republican nominee’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric.

A federal appeals court has rejected Donald Trump’s request to halt postconviction proceedings in his hush money criminal case, leaving a key ruling and the former president’s sentencing on track for after the November election.

People began betting on which political party would win control of Congress in the November elections within minutes of a federal judge’s ruling allowing the bets — the only ones to be legally approved by a U.S. jurisdiction.

“60 Minutes” has scheduled its quadrennial interview special with presidential candidates, and it won't be on a Sunday night.

An estimated 67.1 million people watched the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump said as much with their faces as they did with their words during Tuesday’s debate.

Amid the explosion of legal gambling in the U.S., some things have remained off-limits, including betting on the outcome of U.S. elections.

Donald Trump has more than last night’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on his mind.

When President Joe Biden had given bumbling remarks about abortion on the debate stage, it was widely viewed as a missed opportunity — a failure, even — on a powerful and motivating issue for Democrats at the ballot box.

Democrat and Republican voters across Jacksonville came together Tuesday night at separate watch parties for the highly-anticipated presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off Tuesday in the first and possibly only presidential debate before Election Day.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are veering sharply in how they gear up for Tuesday’s presidential debate, setting up a showdown that reflects not just two separate visions for the country but two politicians who approach big moments very differently.

Donald Trump has signaled support for a potentially historic federal policy shift to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.

JU Public Policy Institute's Rick Mullaney joins Bruce Hamilton to discuss what to expect from Tuesday night's presidential debate.

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

House Republicans have unveiled legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month.

It’s debate prep time for Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.