TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Democrats across the country are questioning their party’s identity after former President Donald Trump’s stunning victory last week.

In Florida, the mood might be more bleak.

After yet another punishing election that saw Democrats lose even more ground in the state Legislature, some Democrats are blasting state ...Read more

Time and again during his campaign, former and future president Donald Trump made the Jan.6 rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol a centerpiece of his rallies, calling them heroes or hostages and promising pardons.

“The moment we win,” Trump told a Wisconsin crowd in September, “we will rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — U.S. attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz is under fire from the leader of an Orlando-based conservative legal group who called the former Florida congressman morally and professionally unqualified for the job.

Mat Staver, founder and chairman of the Liberty Counsel, wrote a scathing critique of the firebrand politician, taking...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — For the nation’s third-largest state, Florida has never been that politically relevant in Washington, D.C.

It’s not crazy to argue that Missouri, Arkansas and Delaware have all had more access to the nation’s highest offices than Florida. The Sunshine State has never had a native elected president. No vice presidents, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Officials have approved the removal of the derogatory term “squaw” from more than 30 geographic features and place names on California lands, according to an announcement Friday by the state Natural Resources Agency.

The action stems from a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in 2022, and follows a similar move by ...Read more

A mother says years of painful headaches and speech issues from brain tumors were caused by prolonged use of a Pfizer birth control shot, according to a lawsuit filed Nov. 14 in Nevada Federal District Court.

The Las Vegas native received Depo-Provera, a shot administered every three months to prevent pregnancy developed and manufactured by ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Attorneys for the man charged with killing four Idaho college students in Moscow followed through on their pledge to challenge evidence they assert was improperly obtained by police to prevent its use at trial.

Bryan Kohberger’s defense met a court-imposed deadline Thursday to file suppression briefs that identified specific ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. – Tropical Storm Sara is forecast to slog its way into Central America this weekend but lose organization before its remnants make their way into the Gulf of Mexico and get sucked back to the east toward Florida next week.

As of the National Hurricane Center’s 4 p.m. ET advisory Friday, Sara was located about 30 miles ...Read more

A Franciscan friar vowed to commit himself to poverty, like other friars in his order.

But Pawel Bielecki broke his vow by stealing more than $560,000 he caused people to donate toward a non-existent medical charity in Beirut, Lebanon, according to federal prosecutors.

Bielecki, a Catholic friar with the Province of St. Mary of the Capuchin ...Read more

Ukraine blasted Olaf Scholz’s telephone diplomacy with Vladimir Putin, as many of Kyiv’s allies took a dim view of the German chancellor’s phone call with the Russian president.

Germany said the hourlong call on Friday was aimed at urging the Kremlin leader to enter talks to end his war on Ukraine. But the first direct communication ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. – Tropical Storm Sara is forecast to slog its way into Central America this weekend, but lose organization before its remnants make their way into the Gulf of Mexico and get sucked back to the east toward Florida next week.

As of the National Hurricane Center’s 1 p.m. advisory, Sara was located about 30 miles south-southwest ...Read more

NEW YORK — A members-only social club in Manhattan co-owned by prominent political donors to Mayor Eric Adams was selected to host a city government event this month where the mayor delivered remarks about making New York the world’s “most business-friendly” city, the Daily News has learned.

The event, an annual procurement fair held by...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a matter of hours, the Mountain fire charged rapidly across the Santa Susana Mountains and into nearby foothill neighborhoods, forcing widespread evacuations and demanding intense firefights from crews showered in red-hot embers.

Even as hundreds of firefighters around the region immediately kicked into action, the wind-...Read more

KFARAKKA, Lebanon — In normal times, you'd rarely hear of Kfarakka, a hamlet nestled in the lush green mountains of north Lebanon whose primary claim to fame is that it's the country's top olive oil producer.

These are not normal times.

Hoping for an end to the devastating war with Israel, many Lebanese have turned to this village of some 3...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — With potential trouble brewing in the Gulf of Mexico and the Thanksgiving holiday around the corner, many neighborhoods across Central Florida still have stacks of sticks and other storm waste piled outside from Hurricane Milton.

Cities and counties say their cleanup crews and contractors have been working long hours and extra...Read more

A one-time substitute teacher who was banned from a Minnesota school district after being accused last month of re-enacting George Floyd’s murder in class has now lost his job as a police officer in western Wisconsin, the city’s mayor said Monday.

Prescott Mayor Robert Daugherty told the Minnesota Star Tribune that the City Council on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rand Paul has chosen to chair the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in the next Congress, asserting that the legislative body “must stand up once again for its constitutional role.”

A longtime critic of government overreach and a skeptic of certain national security measures, Paul’s chairmanship is ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With state lawmakers set to question officials overseeing recovery efforts after hurricanes Florence and Matthew, North Carolina’s federal representatives are also calling for accountability.

At the beginning of November, eight Republican members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation — all except for Rep. Patrick ...Read more

A powerful storm system could bring heavy snow, high winds and cold temperatures to parts of upstate New York by the end of next week, weather officials said.

The storm, which is predicted to develop east of the Rocky Mountains early next week, is expected to move from the Central Plains northeastward to the Great Lakes, between Thursday and ...Read more