Early Voting Begins In Florida As State Grapples With Coronavirus
In-person early voting began Saturday in Florida while the state continues to grapple with a high number of coronavirus cases.
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In-person early voting began Saturday in Florida while the state continues to grapple with a high number of coronavirus cases.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis verbally spars with Sen. Rick Scott over state's troubled jobless system saying the system Scott built "wasn't ready for primetime."
Senator Rick Scott has fired back at a comment Governor Ron DeSantis made about the state's troubled unemployment system.
Floridians are flooding elections supervisors with requests for mail-in ballots as they seek a safer way to cast their votes amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but some experts warn that absentee voting is not a panacea.
President Donald Trump took a trip to Tampa on Friday, a state critical to his reelection prospects but currently in the midst of two storms. Hurricane Isaias approaching from the east and a record number of COVID-19 cases.
President Donald Trump is once again alleging in a tweet that universal vote-by-mail will lead the most "inaccurate and fraudulent election in history." He went on to pose the question about whether to "Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???"
Governor Ron DeSantis has backed the efforts of the state's elections chief and county elections supervisors after President Donald Trump suggested the possibility of postponing the November general election because of his aversion to "mail-in" ballots.
President Donald Trump raised the possibility of delaying November's presidential election on Thursday, as he makes unsubstantiated allegations that increased mail-in voting will result in fraud.
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are neck and neck in Florida, according to a new poll.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced some major corporations to declare bankruptcy, yet many continue to operate.
Florida's primary election is August 18 and the popularity of vote-by-mail has increased significantly during the coronavirus pandemic.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was on hand at the White House on Friday as President Donald Trump signed four executive orders designed to reduce prescription-drug prices, including one aimed at allowing drug importation from Canada and other countries.
Planning continues for the Republican National Convention next month in Jacksonville, the host committee announced late Monday after the local sheriff warned the city isn't ready for even a scaled-down event.
Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum emerged Monday from self-imposed political exile with a social media post addressing depression and alcoholism after a March incident involving a man who reportedly overdosed in a South Beach hotel room.
With both sides claiming victory, a federal judge on Monday signed off on a settlement reached by the state and left-leaning groups over Florida's vote-by-mail procedures.
The suit contends DeSantis is violating the First Amendment and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Microsoft moves to slash costs as the video game industry faces what the tech giant calls the "most severe hardware crisis in its history."
Miramar police say Brianna Johnson, 21, was killed in the triple shooting over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Neighbors said they first thought the gunshots were fireworks for the Fourth of July holiday.
The blaze broke out in the 2800 block of Pierce Street just after 6 a.m. in Hollywood, officials say.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
President Trump held separate calls with Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending the war.
These six presidential speeches are some that have most reverberated through the ages, and whose impacts are still felt today.
CBS News previously reported President Trump was weighing pardons of a slate of people convicted of emissions and clean air-related violations.
The gift comes months after Belgium's diamond industry won the removal of U.S. tariffs on diamond imports.
The Fourth of July celebrations in Washington, D.C., are deemed a "national special security event," which is the highest possible designation.
The likely Republican candidate for governor, Congressman Byron Donalds, said he would vote for it, but as he told CBS Miami's Jim DeFede, if it does fail, they will tackle the issue again next year.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has avoided talking about both topics with opponents calling him "the most corrupt attorney general Florida has had."
On Thursday, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the closing of Alligator Alcatraz, the highly controversial immigration detention center that was the subject of numerous lawsuits as well as allegations of abuse.
The 29-year-old attorney is hoping to stand out from the pack by going after young voters.
More than two decades after voters were promised a new facility to treat people with mental illnesses, rather than warehousing them in the county jail, the Miami-Dade County Commission gave final approval on Tuesday to open the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery.
A new Florida law requires drug prescribers to complete sickle cell training, aiming to improve care and address stigma faced by patients.
Former NFL running back Chris Johnson announced that he was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in a "Good Morning America" interview.
Gallup found that only 49% of Americans were "cost-secure" last year, with concerns about medical bills and prescription costs rising across income groups.
Dr. Peter Stafford was working with a missionary group in the Congo when he came down with the virus last month.
The FDA is moving ahead with a safety study of the abortion pill mifepristone, a senior FDA official confirmed to CBS News, a step that could create a path for the Trump administration to restrict access to the medication.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
The Empire State Building lit up in blue for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding Friday night.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were married as they celebrated their wedding with hundreds of guests Friday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donated to 20 local and national charities ahead of their wedding Friday.
Ticket reseller StubHub abruptly canceled customers' tickets to World Cup matches, costing them thousands of dollars, a lawsuit alleges.
Carín León sees the World Cup as something that pulls different cultures together.
