U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., will forego his Senate bid to replace Marco Rubio and instead will run for re-election in CD 13, Jolly announced Friday. 

Making the rounds to friendly media outlets, Attorney General Pam Bondi spent two days this week decrying an interview by CNN's Anderson Cooper that she said will only make it harder for her office to help victims of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

Cooper on Tuesday asked Bondi during a live interview if it was "hypocritical" of her to suggest she was an ally or champion of the LGBT community based on her vigorous defense of the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage.

Marco Rubio is spending this weekend pondering whether or not to run for a second term in the Senate. But despite his national prominence, if Rubio gets in the race, he won’t have an easy path to reelection. 

A Florida congressman led the charge to successful amend the FY 2017 Defense Appropriations Act to increase aid  to military families with autistic children. 

Back in December, the Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced it would cut reimbursements for applied behavior analysis (ABA) services through TRICARE, the health-care program used by active duty and retired military personnel. The cuts took effect in April. Much of these cuts impacted assistance for autistic children. 

The mass shootings in an Orlando nightclub this week have fueled the already-polarizing issues of gun rights and gun control, with the debate expected to return on multiple fronts during Florida's 2017 legislative session.
 
Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday called for a special session to halt gun sales to people on federal watch lists and to impose new requirements for becoming a security guard. Republican legislative leaders say a special session isn't needed.
 

U.S. Rep. David Jolly will be announcing whether he will forego his campaign to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and try to return to the House of Representatives on Friday, and he's not the only one who may drop out of the race.

The 2-year-old Nebraska boy who was dragged by an alligator into a lagoon on the edge of a Walt Disney World hotel Tuesday night has been found dead.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is setting aside money to help with Orlando law enforcement officers for their overtime work in the wake of a terrorist attack at an Orlando nightclub which left 49 people dead and dozens more wounded.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Arizona Republican who has made national headlines due to his tough stances on illegal immigration and his continued insistence that President Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fake, threw his support to Patrick Mooney for the Republican nod to replace Ron DeSantis in Congress. 

While she has broken with the GOP on plenty of issues, ranging from same sex marriage to its presidential candidate, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen remains one of the leading Republicans in Congress when it comes to foreign policy. 

The South Florida congresswoman showed this week that she is still a force on international issues even as she continues to insist she won’t back Donald Trump in November. Ros-Lehtinen chairs the House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee and was the first woman to ever chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee.