Marco Rubio is now reconsidering his decision not to run for a second term in the Senate after the jihadist terrorist attack in Orlando over the weekend.
Marco Rubio is now reconsidering his decision not to run for a second term in the Senate after the jihadist terrorist attack in Orlando over the weekend.
This is our Paris. This is the week we mourn together. As one nation. This week we know no party, we know no prejudice. This is the week we all as Americans suffer loss together, come together, and resolve together that we will not fall to the architects of terror.
While some Republicans have walked back their endorsements of presidential candidate Donald Trump in recent days, a Florida congressman threw his support to the GOP’s presumptive candidate.
Congressman Ted Yoho endorsed Trump on Saturday, praising the celebrity businessman as a political outsider like himself.
“I am excited to stand not just behind the American people’s choice for the next president of the United States of America but my personal choice: Mr. Donald Trump,” Yoho announced in his endorsement.
It was inevitable that we would one day seek ways to kill ourselves with society's blessing.
Equality Florida, the state's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights group, has raised over $1 million for the families of the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting which left 50 dead and dozens wounded.
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, issued an emotional statement during a press conference Sunday afternoon, saying Americans are "heartbroken" by the Orlando nightclub attack by a Port St. Lucie man who pledged allegiance to ISIS before he killed 50 people and injured 53 others. But Rubio pledged the country would stand together, united to overcome the tragedy.
Florida leaders are offering their words of support after a mass shooting at an Orlando gay club late Saturday night.
UPDATED: The Islamic State has taken credit for the nation's deadliest mass shooting in Orlando which left 50 people dead and over 50 injured.
"The armed attack that targeted a gay night club in the city of Orlando in the American state of Florida which left over 100 people dead or injured was carried out by an Islamic State fighter," the Islamic State's news agency Amaq said, according to Reuters.
City officials identified Omar Mateen, 29, from Port St. Lucie, as the killer of 49 people early Sunday inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando.