Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called out President Barack Obamas attack ad which includes quotes from her -- and is calling for the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about.
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Pennsylvania holds its Republican presidential primary on April 24 -- and Mitt Romney is trying to pry away some of the Keystone States 72 delegates from favorite son Rick Santorum.
On Tuesday, Romney announced that he had won the backing of some of Pennsylvanias leading Republicans, including three congressmen: Charlie Dent, Jim Gerlach and Bill Shuster.
If you fly across the country, its easy to see signs of Americas ingenuity and productivity skyscrapers in New York City, steel mills in Pennsylvania, factories in Chicago, farmland in the Great Plains, and the glittering technology of Silicon Valley.
Eight Florida Muslims have filed employment-discrimination complaints against an Orlando taxi company, alleging a hostile work environment.
The Arab-American employees claim that Star Taxi discriminated against them and their Islam religion by prohibiting them from praying.
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President Obama's Energy secretary, Steven Chu, on Tuesday backed away from his previously stated desire to see gas prices rise to match European levels in order to motivate alternative-energy research, the Washington Examiner reported.
Amid steadily rising prices at the pump and falling poll numbers for his boss, Chu is now telling Congress he wants gas prices to fall for the sake of the economy.
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Bolstering a Goldman Sachs report on the Sunshine State's improving economy, Business Week listed three Florida cities as having the best prospects for tech-job growth.
Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa ranked fourth, seventh and eighth respectively in the national survey. See slideshow here.
See Florida jobs story here.
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney unveiled hisAgriculture Advisory Committee on Tuesday -- and Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam will serve as the co-chairman of the organization. Putnam endorsed Romney for the Republican presidential nomination back in October.
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With 172 delegates on the line, the California Republican presidential primary can still be important despite being held on June 5 -- fairly late in the procession of states that will determine who will take on Barack Obama in November.
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Floridas unemployment rate dropped to its lowest mark since March 2009, with numbers for January down 10 percent since November, according to the state Department of Economic Opportunity.
For the first month of 2012, the seasonally adjusted unemployment mark for the Sunshine State was 9.6 percent, down from 9.9 percent a month earlier and 10.9 percent a year earlier.
Gov. Rick Scott stated he was pleased with the latest numbers.
U.S. Rep. John Mica turned up the heat on the Transportation Security Administration Tuesday, prodding the agency to allow more airports to privatize their screening operations.
Speaking at Orlando-Sanford International Airport, whose "opt-out" application was denied by the TSA last year, Mica said the federal agency "attempted to shut down this cost-effective and more efficient screening model for airports."
Sixteen airports operate under the Screening Partnership Program, and others are interested in doing so, but Mica said the TSA has dragged its feet.
