Early voting kicks off throughout Florida
In-person early voting for the Nov. 5 general election began Monday throughout Florida's 67 counties.
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In-person early voting for the Nov. 5 general election began Monday throughout Florida's 67 counties.
South Florida election departments are set and ready as early voting kicks off Monday, October 21.
Weeks before the 2024 election, early voting by mail or in person will be available in most states — here's a map with more information about early voting options.
A group campaigning for a Florida abortion-rights measure is suing state officials over their order to TV stations to stop airing one ad.
Florida elections officials are seeking accommodations from Gov. Ron DeSantis after multiple counties were devastated by Hurricanes Milton and Helene.
Cards Against Humanity counters move earlier in the month by pro-Trump super PAC funded by tech billionaire Elon Musk.
A federal judge rejected a request from the League of Women Voters of Florida and the Florida NAACP to reopen voter registration for the November election because of Hurricane Milton.
Just weeks before the presidential election, new rules are going into effect in some states that can jeopardize people's right to vote, from challenges to voter registrations, to limits on when and how ballots may be cast.
Thursday's order will not affect "voter security efforts," DeSantis said.
Nearly 20 years in the making, the reform initiative seeks to change the way Electoral College votes are counted.
In Venezuela's July election, independent experts approved opposition tally sheets showing Nicolás Maduro's defeat.
A voter registration drive has kicked off in Miami-Dade County at the Dunkin Donuts Plaza near Hard Rock Stadium.
Pizza to the Polls food truck is part of National Voter Registration Day.
A political committee behind the campaign to pass a constitutional right to abortion in Florida has filed a lawsuit against a state health care agency that it alleges is carrying out a taxpayer-funded "misinformation" campaign against the November ballot measure.
The U.S. government has responded to Venezuela's disputed July presidential election by imposing sanctions against 16 allies of President Nicolás Maduro.
A Venezuelan judge has issued an arrest warrant for the opposition's former presidential candidate Edmundo González.
Jim DeFede goes one-on-one with the Democratic nominee for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections.
A 2023 study found that Florida leads the nation in disenfranchised felons with 1.15 million, with 81% of them unable to vote because of a financial obligation tied to their sentence.
The revamped process likely will not be finalized before the Oct. 7 deadline to register to vote in the fall election.
Voters across Florida weighed in Tuesday on important federal, state and local races when they cast their ballots in the primary election.
Compared with the wild twists and turns of the presidential election, Florida's primary will be relatively tame.
An unfounded claim that election workers will invalidate ballots by writing on them is prompting election clerks in Florida to correct the record ahead of next week's state primary.
The Miami-Dade County Elections Department performed an in-depth test of its voting equipment.
The Miami-Dade County Elections Department announced Wednesday that they had performed an in-depth test of its voting equipment in preparation for the August 20th Primary Election.
A look at young voters and the 2024 election.
According to FHP, troopers were searching for a red Dodge pickup truck involved in the kidnapping in the area of Northwest 22nd Avenue and 103rd Street.
The group, "Jewish Voice For Peace," claims Commissioner David Suarez paid for electronic truck billboards that featured their faces and what they call offensive language.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the department has no plan to shut down Alligator Alcatraz, following reports that companies hired by Florida to operate the detention center were told it would close.
Leroy Wright, a reading teacher at Miami Jackson Senior High School, appeared before a judge on Wednesday after prosecutors accused him of having an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old student.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said he has issued an investigative subpoena to the NFL regarding the Rooney Rule.
According to FHP, troopers were searching for a red Dodge pickup truck involved in the kidnapping in the area of Northwest 22nd Avenue and 103rd Street.
The group, "Jewish Voice For Peace," claims Commissioner David Suarez paid for electronic truck billboards that featured their faces and what they call offensive language.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the department has no plan to shut down Alligator Alcatraz, following reports that companies hired by Florida to operate the detention center were told it would close.
Leroy Wright, a reading teacher at Miami Jackson Senior High School, appeared before a judge on Wednesday after prosecutors accused him of having an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old student.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said he has issued an investigative subpoena to the NFL regarding the Rooney Rule.
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.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the department has no plan to shut down Alligator Alcatraz, following reports that companies hired by Florida to operate the detention center were told it would close.
A CBS News review of internal government documents and information provided to Congress shows immigration detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay are nearly empty.
The Trump administration plans to name longtime immigration official David Venturella as the interim head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, replacing acting director Todd Lyons, a spokesperson and two U.S. officials said.
The closure comes amid escalating operating costs for the facility, which are now estimated to total nearly $1 billion.
President Trump said Americans' financial situation isn't motivating him to make a deal, "Not even a little bit," and that he is only focused on preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
CBS News Miami has confirmed from multiple sources that the Miami Dade State Attorney's office is investigating A3.
State Senator Rosalind Osgood is urging Wasserman Schultz not to run in Florida's 22nd Congressional district.
In an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor's efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
The center – which was promised to voters back in 2004 – would take mentally ill individuals out of the jail and move them into a place where they can receive comprehensive treatment and support.
The head of the World Health Organization says "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness.
An American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services says.
More than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus are set to be disembarked.
In 2002, Zermeño found out he contracted hantavirus after cleaning the family house following the death of his mother and sister. He had been exposed to rodent droppings and became infected.
Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.
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 Devil Wears Prada 2" edges out "Mortal Kombat II" at the North American box office this weekend.
A trial in the lawsuit between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was set to begin later in May.
The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady Gaga last year on one of the world's most iconic waterfronts.
Attending this year's Kentucky Derby meant more for thoroughbred expert Mark Toothaker, who suffered a seizure from laughing at a whiffed NFL field goal attempt that led to a lifesaving diagnosis.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.