A federal appeals court Thursday quickly rejected a constitutional challenge to a 2010 Florida election law regulating some outside groups that run political ads or send mailers.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta issued a brief ruling that upheld the law, which places requirements on what are known as "electioneering communications organizations," or ECOs.
The battle between the two leading Republican candidates for U.S. Senate -- George LeMieux and Connie Mack -- intensified Thursday as they exchanged attacks, LeMieux's launched on national television.
LeMieux fired away on The Daily Rundown, hosted by Chuck Todd on MSNBC.
The former U.S. senator drilled Macks attendance in Congress. This is a guy who doesnt show up to work, LeMieux said about Mack, accusing the congressman of having missed 40 percent of his votes.
The Cuban-American delegation in Congress is strongly criticizing the U.S. government for an enormous mistake in granting a visa to Raul Castros daughter, who plans to attend a conference next week in San Francisco.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Miami, posted video on YouTube in both English and Spanish calling the U.S. State Department's decision to issue a visa to Mariela Castro Espin "shameful."
In the unknown future of U.S. national-security challenges, safe still beats sorry --especially when those challenges already appear daunting.
A new task force on higher education has been formed to determine if the states universities and colleges can handle the anticipated call for high-tech students, and more importantly, if there will be enough students who can handle the baccalaureateprograms' workload.
Florida Board of Governor Chairman Dean Colson announced Wednesday the creation of a task force to see if the states higher education system is physically ready for the proposed increase in baccalaureate degrees, from 53,000 to 90,000 by 2025.
As the campaigns redirect their focus toward the general election, all signs indicate that the battle between Democrat incumbent President Barack Obama and the former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, will be a close one.
Many decades ago as a young punk working in Washington, I was given the job of teaching public speaking and debate at the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee's candidate's school.
New coastal homeowners seeking coverage from the state-backed insurance pool would see premiums double in some regions under a scenario to be reviewed Thursday by a key regulatory committee.
Members of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.'s actuarial and underwriting committee will review a proposal that would raise premiums for new Citizens customers by nearly 30 percent statewide in an effort to depopulate the state-backed property insurer that now handles nearly 1.4 million policies.
