"I believe in an America always moving toward the future."
-- Hillary Clinton, June 21
"I believe in an America always moving toward the future."
-- Hillary Clinton, June 21
UPDATED: The Florida Attorney General's Office confirmed Friday it will have no role in investigating charges that could result from allegations businessman Andrew Korge attempted to bribe state Sen. Dwight Bullard to run for reelection in another district. "The jurisdiction lies with the state attorney, not our Office of Statewide Prosecution," the AG's press secretary, Kylie Mason, said in an email.
The recent gun massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando continued to reverberate in Washington, D.C., this week, as Democrats staged a daylong "sit-in" on the floor of the U.S. House calling for a vote on gun legislation.
Specifically, the Democrats said they wanted the Republicans to allow the chamber to debate a "no fly, no buy" bill that would bar people on terrorist watch lists from purchasing firearms. The House GOP leadership didn't immediately give in to the demands, and the incident made news across the country.
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.