The U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Barack Obama’s immigration plan with a tie vote on Thursday.

With Marco Rubio announcing on Wednesday that he would run for another term in the Senate, some of his former presidential rivals endorsed him but a prominent Florida Republican remains on the sidelines. 

In the aftermath of Marco Rubio deciding to run for a second term in the Senate, one of the most prominent Republicans on foreign policy threw his support to the former presidential hopeful and Congressman Ron DeSantis for a third term.

Businessman and former police officer Jeff Moran ended his bid for the Republican nomination to replace retiring Congresswoman Gwen Graham and threw his support to Ken Sukhia on Thursday. 

The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission, pursuant to 52 U.S.C. § 30109(a)(1), against U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy and others, urging the commission to investigate what SLF alleges are illegal straw donations made to Murphy’s 2012 campaign for Congress and Charlie Crist’s 2010 campaign for the United States Senate.

A new poll shows Florida is divided on which bathrooms transgenders should use but against the idea of forcing public schools to allow transgendered students to use the bathrooms of the gender they identify with. 

"The issue of transgender people and the use of public bathrooms finds voters split on exactly what should be done," said Peter Brown, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, on Thursday. 

Floridians are concerned about the Zika virus, a new poll shows. 

Quinnipiac University released a poll on Thursday morning which finds 22 percent of voters in the Sunshine State are very concerned about Zika while 40 percent are somewhat concerned about it. While 22 percent say they’re not so concerned about it, 15 percent say they aren’t concerned about Zika at all. 

Florida Democrats joined the chorus of U.S. House Democrats in a sit-in on the House floor to demand a vote over gun control legislation.

Florida's growing bear population will be out of the hunting crosshairs for this year.

But a one-year pause may simply help the state build a better case for a hunt in 2017.

After hours of objections from animal-rights advocates and support from hunters, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 4-3 late Wednesday against a staff recommendation to hold a hunt in October that could have been smaller --- in terms of permits and hunting grounds --- than the 2015 event in which 304 bears were killed over two days.

Democratic candidate Andrew Korge, looking for a district where he can win, offered state Sen. Dwight Bullard $25,000 if he would get out of the way and move to a different Senate District, Sunshine State News has learned.