Politics

Prosecutors will not file a battery charge against Edgewater Mayor Diezel Depew after a woman accused him of hitting her with a campaign sign during an argument outside a New Smyrna Beach early voting site.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving her job, President Trump announced Wednesday. 

Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman will face off in a Republican runoff election for South Carolina’s vacant U.S. Senate seat, one month after the sudden passing of late Sen. Lindsey Graham.

President Donald Trump’s administration said that Medicaid will stop paying for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender minors.

Former Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum has been arrested for the second time in less than six weeks after allegedly missing a drug test and then testing positive for methamphetamine, according to TMZ.

A judge ordered the Kennedy Center to hand over more than a quarter-million dollars to Chuck Redd, the musician who had canceled a Christmas Eve performance in protest against adding President Donald Trump’s name to the building.

Seven Republicans are competing for the nomination in Florida’s 9th Congressional District, where new congressional boundaries have transformed a seat held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Darren Soto since 2017 into a potential pickup opportunity for the GOP.

President Donald Trump’s executive order barring the U.S. Postal Service from delivering mail-in ballots to anyone not on a list of eligible voters compiled by the federal government suffered another legal setback.

Four candidates are seeking to become Orange County's next mayor, offering differing visions for addressing housing affordability, transportation, economic development and public safety ahead of the Aug. 18 primary.

The NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey last month, ended with a ruse to safely get President Trump out of the country due to Iranian assassination threats against him, according to The Washington Post.

Approximately 175,000 people have lost their visas since the beginning of the Trump administration, the State Department reports.

The Trump administration suffered its 21st court loss this year in its push for state voter rolls after a judge ruled that states are not legally required to share the data.

A ceremony was held Monday renaming Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina to Joint Base Lindsey Graham in honor of the late senator.

Election 2026 will determine which party controls Congress, with Republicans defending narrow majorities in both the House and Senate.

Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, has been confirmed as the next U.S. attorney general in a narrow 50-49 vote.

Florida officials are rewriting the ballot language for a proposed property tax cut after a judge ruled the original wording was misleading and contained political rhetoric.

A former federal prosecutor in South Florida is suing the Justice Department, alleging he was fired because of comments he made about President Donald Trump years before joining the government.