Johnny Zuagar says he tried to hide his worries about a potential government shutdown from his three boys as he weighs how much to spend on Christmas presents.

A grand jury in Washington has returned an indictment against former Congressman David Rivera for failing to register as a foreign agent of a sanctioned Venezuelan media tycoon on whose behalf the Miami Republican allegedly lobbied the Trump administration.

Federal prosecutors sidestepped some Justice Department rules when they seized the phone records of reporters as part of media leak investigations during the Trump administration, according to a new watchdog report being released as the aggressive practice of hunting for journalists’ sources could again be resurrected.

The new Los Angeles police chief says in an interview with The Associated Press that his department is working with consulate offices for Mexico and other Central American countries to draft a plan to protect immigrants ahead of the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations.

If you’re planning to buy a big-ticket item like a refrigerator, smartphone, or car, now might be the perfect time to act as experts warn that President-elect Trump’s proposed tariffs could soon lead to higher prices on imported goods.

Matt Gaetz says he is withdrawing his name from consideration to be Trump's attorney general.

Bitcoin is jumping again, setting another new high above $99,000.

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President Trump promised to make major tax cuts for Americans on the campaign trail, vowing to cut taxes on tips and overtime pay, social security taxes, and reduce corporate income taxes.

Donald Trump lavished Christopher Wray with praise when he named him FBI director in 2017, introducing him as an “impeccably qualified individual” and a “model of integrity.”.

President-elect Trump is planning to hike up tariffs on foreign impacts, and that could mean changes for international trade hubs like JAXPORT, and some economists, say, higher prices for consumers.

Kamala Harris devoted much of her final full day on the campaign trail to reaching Latino voters in Pennsylvania, a swing state that Democrats consider part of their “blue wall” in the Electoral College.

"Red Mirage" is a term that describes Republican candidates doing better in states where day-of voting happens on election night but mail in ballots aren't counted until later. Historically Republicans do better on election day but Democrats fare better in mail-in ballots. In some swing states like Pennsylvania and Nevada mail-in ballots aren't counted until after day-of votes.

An 18-year-old now faces an aggravated assault charge after the Neptune Beach Police Department said he “brandished a machete” in an armed disturbance incident.

A Republican state senator claimed Friday that state agencies misused millions of dollars in taxpayer money on a campaign to sway Floridians to vote “no” on Amendment 3, which would legalize the personal use of marijuana for those 21 years and older.

A Republican state senator claimed Friday that state agencies misused millions of dollars in taxpayer money on a campaign to sway Floridians to vote “no” on Amendment 3, which would legalize the personal use of marijuana for those 21 years and older.

The number of people casting ballots on the first day of early in-person voting in presidential battleground North Carolina exceeded the first-day total four years ago — even as Hurricane Helene recovery continued in the mountains.

Learn about upcoming elections and candidates on the ballots in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia on our Voter's Guide page.

In a drab office suite just blocks from the White House, seasoned political operatives are drawing up detailed plans for a government in waiting.

Both candidates made several controversial claims, which have been closely analyzed by the News4JAX Trust Index team. Here’s a breakdown of some of the major statements and how they hold up under scrutiny.

Errol Morris turned his lens toward the U.S. government’s border policies the separation of migrant families in the new film “Separated,” which premiered at Thursday at the Venice Film Festival.

New York state lawyers are urging an appeals court to uphold Donald Trump’s nearly $500 million civil fraud judgment.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her Democratic allies are increasingly branding Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen_ JD Vance, as “weird.”.

The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump's civil fraud trial says he won’t step aside from the case, vehemently denying a claim that another lawyer had advised him ahead of the verdict.

Two top Biden administration officials say Iran is talking more about getting a nuclear bomb, and has made strides in developing one key aspect of a weapon in recent months.

Tucker Carlson was back on Fox News Channel airwaves Thursday.

Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance will introduce himself to a national audience as he addresses the Republican National Convention.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance is supposed to help Donald Trump win the Midwest this fall.

The violence over the weekend has highlighted a dynamic that’s become all too familiar in American politics: political polarization.

Former President Donald Trump has released a statement after the shooting at his rally in Pennsylvania.

Donald Trump’s campaign says he is “fine” after what law enforcement officials are treating as an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The Supreme Court will issue the final opinions of its terms on Monday.

Donald Trump has narrowed his vice presidential shortlist to a handful of contenders as he prepares to announce his pick in the days before, or perhaps at, next month’s Republican National Convention.

A tech industry group says a new Mississippi law requiring users of websites and other digital services to verify their age will unconstitutionally limit access to online speech for minors and adults.

The first day of jury deliberations in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial has concluded after the panel sent two notes to the judge.

Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are signaling to major Republican donors that they’re putting their rivalry behind them after a contentious and often personal primary fight.

Kim Kardashian has joined Vice President Kamala Harris for a roundtable highlighting the administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform.

The commencement of opening statements in Donald Trump's hush money trial sets the stage for weeks of testimony about the former president’s personal life and places his legal troubles at the center of his closely contested campaign against President Joe Biden.

A New York appeals court has agreed to hold off collection of former President Donald Trump’s more than $454 million civil fraud judgment if he puts up $175 million within 10 days.

The Wall Street debut of Donald Trump’s Truth Social network could give him stock worth billions of dollars on paper.

On the witness stand last year, Donald Trump proclaimed: “I have a lot of cash.”.

A New York judge has spared Donald Trump a “corporate death penalty” ruling, but his business did get hit hard with bans and cash penalties.

A New York judge has ordered Donald Trump and his companies to pay $355 million.

A New York judge has ordered Donald Trump and his companies to pay $355 million in penalties.

The report noted that even in “normal times” elections are complex in a nation with thousands of voting jurisdictions and where the rules vary widely from state to state, and even between local governments.

Vice presidential candidates typically aren’t tapped until after a candidate has locked down the nomination.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has suspended his presidential campaign and he endorsed Donald Trump as the Republican nominee in a video posted to his X (formerly Twitter) account.

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina has endorsed former President Donald Trump ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire GOP primary.

The judge in Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial has ordered attorneys in the case not to comment on “confidential communications” between him and his staff.

Former President Donald Trump is set to testify Nov. 6 in the civil business fraud case against him, following testimony from his three eldest children.

Donald Trump has been fined $5,000 after his disparaging social media post about a key court staffer in his New York civil fraud trial lingered on his campaign website for weeks after the judge ordered it deleted.

There are almost daily developments in the Georgia election interference case against Former President Donald Trump and 18 other co-conspirators.

A federal judge has declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee is presiding over the trial against former President Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants. A hearing at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday could answer the question of how soon a trial could begin, and how quickly it will move.

Hours after former President Donald Trump was booked and released from the Fulton County Jail Thursday on multiple charges related to meddling in the 2020 presidential election, he spoke out against the claims.

The government and defense have filed their sentencing recommendations, and the Department of Justice is asking the judge for a 27-month prison term.

Donald Trump is due to appear in federal court Thursday after being indicted by the Justice Department for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. It’s the third criminal case brought against the former president as he seeks to reclaim the White House.

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver has spoken with federal prosecutors as part of the special counsel’s probe into the 2020 election.

The fallout from Jacksonville’s mayoral election is making waves in the Republican race for President.

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate perchlorate, reversing a rollback the agency first made under then-President Donald Trump.

With President Biden announcing his re-election campaign Tuesday and Donald Trump being the leading candidate on the Republican side, the issue of age is weighing heavily on voters’ minds.

Next year, in 2024, Biden will be 81 and Trump 78. What do you think about their ages when they are running for President?

From almost the moment he first rode down the escalator in Trump Tower, a question has loomed over the Republican Party: Is this the moment to break from Donald Trump.

Political debate is swirling ever since Former President Donald Trump announced on social media he expects to be arrested Tuesday. This due to a grand jury investigation in Manhattan.

Federal wildlife officials are proposing classifying one of two dwindling California spotted owl populations as endangered.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients in Florida will see a reduction in their benefits starting in March.

U.S. officials say efforts ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defenses against Chinese espionage helped identify last week’s spy balloon — and determine that similar flights were conducted at multiple points during the Trump administration.

A federal task force has reunited nearly 700 children who were separated from their families during the Trump administration.

A Nevada case shined a light on a U.S. immigration law and its little-known history after a federal judge called the rule racist and struck it down.

President Joe Biden’s administration has finalized regulations that protect hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that federal courts had thrown out and that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez has defeated rival Democrat David Kim in a Los Angeles district after a battle on the party’s progressive flank.

The nation is watching to see if former President Donald Trump will announce a 2024 run for president during a speech planned for Tuesday night.

The Supreme Court has again declined to hear a lawsuit involving a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns.

Donald Trump’s company went on trial Monday in a criminal tax case and the first task facing the court was a big one: selecting a neutral jury.

The Supreme Court says it won’t take up two cases that involved challenges to a ban enacted during the Trump administration on bump stocks.

A former corrections officer at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to three months of probation.

A judge has unsealed the Mar-a-Lago search warrant documents, after former President Trump’s legal team agreed to release them.

New information was reported about what FBI agents were searching for when they raided President Trump’s Florida home as the Justice Dept. asked a court to unseal the search warrant.

The FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate marked a dramatic and unprecedented escalation of the law enforcement scrutiny of the former president, but the Florida operation was just one part of one investigation related to Trump and his time in office.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration spokeswoman who broke from her old boss in 2020, will be the conservative voice on the daytime talk show “The View.”.

The National Association of Immigration Judges has asked the federal government to restore its union recognition after the Trump administration stripped its official status and the system’s chief judge resigned after two years on the job.

Some Trump administration officials had initial doubts that it was legal to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census but pressed forward and attempted to add it.

A former corrections officer at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol wants to be sentenced to probation. But prosecutors are asking for more than that.

The Supreme Court says it was wrong to wade into a dispute involving a Trump-era immigration rule that the Biden administration has abandoned, so the justices have decided to dismiss the case.

In its second day of public hearings, the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is making the case that Trump and his advisers knew that his claims of fraud in the 2020 election were false.

Bucks County, a suburb near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has an ample supply of swing voters — they've sent Republicans and Democrats to Congress.

The House Jan. 6 panel has interviewed more than 1,000 people who were directly or indirectly involved in the U.S. Capitol insurrection as it's probed the violent attack and former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented efforts to overturn his election defeat.

House investigators are unlikely to call former President Donald Trump to testify about his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency, the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Republicans hoping to emerge from crowded primaries this year have spent tens of thousands of dollars hiring operatives with ties to former President Donald Trump.

The United States and Cuba have held their highest-level diplomatic talks in four years after a severe disruption in ties during the Trump administration.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the state will provide migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border bus charters to Washington, D.

Georgia lawmakers face multiple key decisions on the final scheduled day of their 2022 session.

A judge says former President Donald Trump's legal moves aimed at delaying a rape accuser's defamation claims from reaching trial are in bad faith and so far succeeding.

A new report shows Black, Hispanic and American Indian residents were missed at higher rates than a decade ago during the 2020 U.S. census.

Cowboys for Trump co-founder Couy Griffin says he won’t run for reelection for southern New Mexico's Otero County commission or seek other public office in the 2022 election cycle.

As former President Donald Trump sought to lay blame for his 2020 election loss, Georgia’s secretary of state emerged as one of his main targets.

The Supreme Court is wading into a political clash between the Biden administration and Republican-led states seeking to defend a signature Trump-era immigration rule that the new administration has abandoned.

The two prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump have suddenly resigned, throwing the future of the probe into question.