Gov. Scott: White House Has Approved Pre-Landfall Disaster Declaration
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has announced the federal pre-landfall disaster declaration has been granted by the president.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott has announced the federal pre-landfall disaster declaration has been granted by the president.
After the president's strong statements on the Charlottesville violence, local Republican congressional leaders quickly fired off tweets.
Local politicians, on both sides of the aisle, were critical of President Donald Trump's comments on the Charlottesville attack.
Nicolas Maduro has put the final touches on his takeover of Venezuela's government.
Meeting with college students and recent graduates dealing with the burden of student debt, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson on Friday outlined legislation that would cap rates on federal undergraduate loans at 4 percent and allow the refinancing of older loans at lower rates.
Senator Bill Nelson has followed Gov. Rick Scott, a potential 2018 election challenger, in imploring President Donald Trump to speed repairs to the Herbert Hoover Dike around Lake Okeechobee and to fund other Everglades restoration projects.
For a second time this week, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson lead Gov. Rick Scott in a hypothetical 2018 matchup for Nelson's Senate seat.
Fresh off his visit to the nation's capital, Gov. Rick Scott announced new jobs today, christening the opening of a fiber options firm that moved from Pennsylvania to Ft. Lauderdale.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson will be in the Miami area Friday to meet with government leaders on their efforts to contain the spread of the Zika virus.
Three new cases of the Zika virus were reported in Florida, according to state health officials.
Puerto Rico has reported the first death of an American linked to the Zika virus.
The State Department opened the new year by falling short of a court-ordered goal from last year to have out by now 82 percent of Hillary Clinton's emails from her years as secretary of state.
The rivalry between Cuban-Americans Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz boils down to one issue more than any other: Immigration. And it's become the two presidential contenders' focus in closing messages to Republican voters before the sprint to the Iowa caucuses.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off the barbs he received at the final GOP debate of the year, saying he'd been prepared for more criticism as the front-runner.
In a presidential race reshaped by national security fears, Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio clashed over U.S. military intervention, government spying on Americans' communications and immigration Tuesday night, as front-runner Donald Trump defended his provocative call for banning Muslims from the United States.
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) met with federal officials at Miami International Airport about the smuggling of wildlife through Florida airports.
Donald Trump's anti-Muslim stance is being trashed in South Florida.
Following Donald Trump's call for the U.S. to stop Muslims from entering the country, a Florida mayor says he's banning the Republican presidential candidate from his city.
Based on his recent comments, it would seem Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump isn't very fond of immigrants.
Less than a year away from the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump sits comfortably in the lead for the Republican nominee as rival Dr. Ben Carson, who's hung closely for the last month, drops to third place
Donald Trump returns to Florida as his Republican presidential candidacy continues at a campaign rally Saturday.
Republican presidential candidates swiftly condemned Donald Trump's call for requiring Muslims in the United States to register in a national database, drawing a sharp distinction Friday with the GOP front-runner.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump voiced support Thursday evening for creating a mandatory database to track Muslims in the United States — the latest in an escalating series of responses following the deadly attacks in Paris.
As Marco Rubio campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, he's pledging to bring generational change to Washington. Yet Rubio's policy toward Cuba hinges on reinstating a half-century-old diplomatic freeze that failed to unseat the communist government on the island where his parents were born.
