On Monday night, the U.S. House passed a bill expanding GI Bill benefits without opposition.

Pete Antonacci, a water-management district leader who once served as general counsel for Gov. Rick Scott, was formally named Monday as president of the business-recruitment agency Enterprise Florida.

The fierce battle between Republican insider Jose Mallea and political newcomer Daniel Perez will wind to a close Tuesday, when the two political hopefuls will face off for the Republican nomination to represent Florida’s 116th House District.

Miami will be the center of the hustle and bustle in Florida politics Tuesday, when five politicians will face off to represent Florida’s 40th Senate District in Tallahassee.

From his perch as chairman of the U.S. House Asia and the Pacific Subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., brought out a bill to help Taiwan become a full member of  the World Health Organization (WHO). Earlier this year, for the first time in almost a decade, Taiwan was not invited to the WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA).

After falling in recent weeks, gas prices across the Sunshine State are starting to increase with the state average rising 7 cents across the last week, the second largest weekly increase in the nation behind Indiana.

Towards the end of last week, U.S. Rep. Al Lawson, D-Fla., who is a member of the Military-Veterans Caucus, is leading congressional Democrats on a bill to help veterans start up small businesses. 

Florida will pay $1.1 million in legal fees to attorneys challenging a law prohibiting doctors from discussing gun ownership with their patients, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence announced Monday. 

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has once again teamed up with U.S. Sen Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, to take aim at Hezbollah.

Every year, around the middle of the summer, with the Legislature long gone and the governor's office mostly silent, comes a time when courts are the center of the action in Tallahassee.

That season has come.

Courts were dealing this week with everything from quality of schools to the governor's authority to appoint Supreme Court justices to a state abortion law. The earliest decision in any of those matters is probably weeks away, and some will take even longer.