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Crime and Public Safety

3 years ago

'A reset button:' Donalds expected to share more power with Legislature

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Broward's Hunschofsky takes over as leader of larger Florida House Democratic caucus

22 hours ago

Latinos' shift to Democrats a 'repudiation' of Trump, party leaders say

1 day ago

Rubio acknowledges in wake of GOP midterm losses that 'people are struggling' economically

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Trump administration cancels mandatory pay hike for Head Start teachers

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Trump, Xi and Putin plan an unprecedented joint meeting on the sidelines of APEC, officials say

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US gives states another 6 months before they have to remove people from Medicaid for not working

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Joe Biden's White House memoir is an unapologetic defense of four years sandwiched between Trump

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Van Hollen rules out White House run as he mounts bid to replace Schumer as Senate leader

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Trump list of US-designated 'foreign terrorist organizations' in Latin America grows to 22

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Rep. Lauren Boebert officially loses to Democrat Eileen Laubacher

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Democratic political group launches new push to shape AI agenda before 2028

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Supreme Court will consider Trump's executive order suspending asylum access at the southern border

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'TrumpCare' and commemorative plaques — how Democrats are pitching deal-making with the president

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Commemorative garden to honor Winter Park legacy of Black leader DePugh at development

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ICE agents came to meatpacking country in Kansas. Then voters went to the polls

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Republicans acknowledge voters rejected them but show little appetite for breaking with Trump

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Bessent blames Lutnick's Commerce Department for not restricting Nvidia chip exports

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Democrats are weighing impeachment of RFK Jr. while courting his supporters

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Trump's Justice Department faces a new era of scrutiny under a Democratic-led Congress

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Talking Central Florida: Wrapping up the election midterms

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Brazilian Battle: Florida's pro-Lula expats, once a minority in hiding, are finding their voice

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Navy has quietly fired some commanders and other officials, drawing congressional pushback

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Young, diverse voters showed up for midterms as older, Trump voters stayed home

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Winter Park leaders OK plan that saves most of historic Merrywood mansion

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Republicans score rare blue-to-red flip in Maine during midterm landslide

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Trump bluntly tells JD Vance to shift focus from Iran to targeting 'corruption and crime' at home

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US returns over $12 billion in oil proceeds to Venezuela since Maduro's ouster, report says

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Trump administration will fund new research on controversial psychedelic drug ibogaine

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Black voters view Scott Colom's historic US Senate win through lens of Mississippi's racial legacy

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Hegseth awards soldier who scolded him and his aides at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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DOGE cuts cost tribes $470M, gutting funding for climate projects

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ICE reports record-high immigration arrests and deportations since Trump's return to White House

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Senators probing RFK Jr.'s testimony on Samoa trip after AP and Guardian showed documents refute it

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Usually private, Melania Trump steps into the spotlight after the midterm election

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Democrats flock to Denver for a post-midterms introspection-turned-celebration

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Midterm wave sets a course for 'Medicare for All' Fight

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Montana Democrats choose trans/nonbinary person to be state House minority leader

3 days ago

House approves bill to boost compensation for many veterans, with some floor drama

3 days ago

Alaska judge rules request by Peltola campaign for ballot data in Senate race 'not reasonable'

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Peanut the squirrel's former owner has been detained by ICE and could be deported

3 days ago

Trump administration plans to make it harder to get grocery assistance

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Democrat Scott Colom elected Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction

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Hegseth and staff reprimanded by guard at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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White House faces unusual obstacle on confirming Trump judges: other Republicans

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Trump administration to pursue public land sales and a decrease in federal ownership

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Trump says the towering arch he wants to be build might be dedicated to military veterans

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Judge allows Trump defamation case against BBC to proceed but tosses 1 claim

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Analysts weigh how Democrats' midterm wins could shift Trump's Latin America policy

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Biden says he wouldn't have run for a second term in 2024 if he knew he had cancer

3 days ago

Bessent moves to a military base over safety concerns, an AP source says

3 days ago

How Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's extramarital affair could cause collateral damage in Washington

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White House confronts Democrats over planned probes, claiming they may be 'blatant criminality'

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls for more balanced US-China trade ties ahead of Trump-Xi talks

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Judge weighs lawsuit brought by Peltola campaign over absentee ballots in Alaska's US Senate race

3 days ago

Immigration arrests go on unabated despite Trump's misgivings after the GOP's midterm wipeout

3 days ago

Kennedy family members ask a judge to block Trump's Arlington memorial arch

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More than a dozen key races remain too early to call one week after Election Day

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Bernie Sanders won't support Schumer for Senate Democratic leader, saying it's time for change

4 days ago

House Oversight Committee criticizes Trump administration over release of Epstein records

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New proposal would save most of iconic Merrywood in Winter Park

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A note to '46': Donald Trump's private message to Joe Biden emerges in new White House memoir

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Dreams, desks and selfies: Newly elected members of Congress learn their way around

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Redistricting battle could spill into 2028

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Faced with influx, prosecutor in Washington says he lacks resources to defend immigration cases

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Florida city cancels St. Patrick's and Pride events, citing state's anti-DEI law

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Democrats have gained control in more states. That could change the way the US elects its president

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Here are some of the House seats that Democrats didn't expect to win this year

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Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio elected to lead House Republicans in the minority

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John Thune seeks another term as Senate Republican leader as the party reckons with election losses

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UN body agrees to postpone review of US rights record after Trump administration snub

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House Republicans quash effort to impeach defense secretary Hegseth

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California voters reject proposed billionaires tax

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UFC's Dana White appears with Trump at a White House briefing — but won't be his press secretary

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Democrat Eileen Laubacher declares victory over Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th Congressional District

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Thune and Schumer face questions about Senate leadership in aftermath of elections

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Trump after meeting with Qatari PM says he believes war with Iran is militarily 'effectively over'

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Feud between former Trump officials exposes divisions over MAHA movement after midterm losses

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Supreme Court clears the way for border wall construction in Texas' Big Bend to resume

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Democrats plan to use new power to rein in Trump's education agenda, but their tools are limited

5 days ago

Trump open to talking to Democrats on immigration after midterms, but Mullin stresses no amnesty

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Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky files resolution in the House to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

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Senate weighs sweeping energy legislation in first major action since midterm elections

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Joe Biden, in White House memoir, says Trump should carry the weight of Jan. 6 riots 'to his grave'

5 days ago

Trump and his Justice Department stand defiant as Democrats ready an investigative blitz

5 days ago

Congress returns to a changed Washington after GOP's election wipeout

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Trump says he was just kidding about making UFC's Dana White his press secretary

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Deportation flight of Iranians from US scuttled at last minute, attorney says

5 days ago

Rubio says Trump's war against Iran not 'necessarily popular' but needed to stop a nuclear threat

5 days ago

Democrats ended the GOP supermajority in the Florida House. What's next?

6 days ago

In 'Resistival,' online comics and creators celebrate midterms with comedy

6 days ago

Democrats plan to push clean energy to lower bills and challenge Trump's fossil fuel agenda

6 days ago

Voters demanded economic relief. Trump and Democrats face tough choices on how to deliver

6 days ago

Native American women made history in tribal, state and federal elections

6 days ago

Budget crunch: How much will your city lose to Amendment 3?

7 days ago

Rep. Soto, former TV journalist Elijah win close contests for U.S. Congress

7 days ago

DeSantis' GOP congressional map was swamped. These South Florida races did it

7 days ago

DeSantis' GOP congressional map was swamped. These South Florida races did it

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Florida midterm by the data: See where the biggest Democrat shifts occurred

7 days ago

'Our time has come': Byron Donalds' win reshapes Black representation in Florida

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