Mallory Pace, Government Reporter
• September 13, 2022
FILE - Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses attendees during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, Friday, July 22, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. DeSantis' effort to place candidates fully aligned...
U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) speaks at a rally held by March Fourth near the U.S. Capitol on July 13, 2022, calling for universal background checks for guns and an assault weapons ban in the...
Paris Hilton, left, presents Britney Spears with the award for best pop video at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards held at Paramount Pictures Studio Lot on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork...
Rescuers work to free trapped survivors and find dead victims in a four story building that collapsed in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald...
MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters predict a tropical system will bring heavy rain, storm surge and coastal flooding to the northern Gulf Coast as early as Friday and throughout the weekend.
A tropical storm...
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. outclassed YouTube personality Logan Paul but couldn’t stop him inside the distance.
Mayweather and Paul boxed an eight-round exhibition Sunday night...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats said Tuesday they will investigate whether Postmaster General Louis DeJoy encouraged employees at his business to contribute to Republican candidates and then reimbursed...
The Latest on Hurricane Laura:
Reports are coming in from people who rode out Hurricane Laura in Louisiana.
Brett Geymann lives in Moss Bluff, just north of Lake Charles, and said the eye of the storm...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A university police officer in Florida whose Twitter bio described herself as a "KKK member" has been fired, officials said.
Former University of South Florida officer Presley Garcia,...
The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
TOP OF THE...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said that he will sign an executive order "to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States" because of the coronavirus.
"In light of the attack from...
President Donald Trump is pressing to restart the U.S. economy, which has been ravaged by the pandemic in a short few weeks.
He has given U.S. governors a road map for recovering from the acute economic...
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people.
For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening broadly higher on Wall Street after the Senate approved a $2.2 trillion bill to provide economic relief for damage done by the coronavirus outbreak. Major indexes were...
TOKYO (AP) — IOC President Thomas Bach has agreed "100%" to a proposal of postponing the Tokyo Olympics for about one year until 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo...
The head of the World Health Organization says Europe, not China, is now the epicenter of the world's coronavirus pandemic.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva that...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A career Army officer. A career foreign service official. Both had a consistent message during Day 3 of the House impeachment inquiry, and each was troubled by the phone call between...
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a Southern California high school (all times local):
8:43 a.m.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department says now there are three confirmed injuries...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The death of a college freshman in California who was hospitalized after attending a fraternity party was accidental, a medical examiner ruled Tuesday.
Dylan Hernandez, 19, suffered...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Colleges are becoming a battleground in the conflict between federal and state marijuana laws as students who use medical pot challenge decades-old campus drug policies.
In...
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Dorian posed an increasing menace to Florida as it pushed over open waters Thursday after leaving limited damage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The U.S. National Hurricane...
AP-Financial-Markets -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 600 points Friday after the latest escalation in the trade war between the U.S. and China rattled investors. The broad sell-off...
NEW YORK (AP) — Financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in New York, officials said Saturday.
Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at the Manhattan...
The Latest: Biden says Harris misrepresented busing stance
MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on the second Democratic presidential debate (all times local):
11:45 p.m.
Former Vice President Joe Biden says...
MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on the Democratic presidential debates (all times local):
11:10 p.m.
The Democratic presidential candidates have concluded the first 2020 debate emphasizing the...
AP-NORC Poll: Democratic voters not fully tuned in to 2020
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two dozen Democratic presidential candidates have crisscrossed...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The man accused of killing a woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber ride had activated the child locks in his backseat so the doors could only be opened from the outside,...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism.
The company previously allowed such material even...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Legislation raising the minimum age from 18 to 21 for Floridians to possess tobacco or vaping products has cleared a state Senate committee.
The Senate Health Policy Committee...
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday requiring U.S. colleges to protect free speech on their campuses or risk losing...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — At least 49 people were killed in mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers on what the prime minister called "one of New Zealand's darkest...
BOSTON (AP) — Fifty people, including Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, were charged Tuesday in a scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed college coaches and other insiders...
