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Orlando Sentinel - Politics

Crime and Public Safety

3 years ago

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

7 hours ago

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

7 hours ago

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

9 hours ago

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

10 hours ago

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

10 hours ago

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

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

1 day 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

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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

1 day ago

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

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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

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

1 day 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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

House Oversight Committee criticizes Trump administration over release of Epstein records

2 days ago

New proposal would save most of iconic Merrywood in Winter Park

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

Redistricting battle could spill into 2028

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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'

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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'

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

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

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

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

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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

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

5 days ago

US Justice Department drops bid to force California to set aside disputed ballots

6 days ago

DeSantis planning 2028 presidential run, sources tell Washington Post

6 days ago

Secret Service arrests man near White House after he said he heard voices telling him to kill Trump

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Why it's still too early to call the US Senate race in Mississippi

6 days ago

Pope 'proud to be an American' after US elections, and credits God and doctors with cancer rebound

6 days ago

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy discharged from the hospital after stroke

6 days ago

Trump replaces Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller as chief of staff after GOP's midterm defeat

6 days ago

2 Justice Department officials resign, including US attorney who oversaw 'grand conspiracy' probe

6 days ago

Trump's arch is blocked for now, but a glitzy new website highlights the plans

6 days ago

Democratic candidates with a Christian message help flip Congress

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Latino voters swing left in midterm elections, lifting Democrats to big wins in Texas and nationwide

6 days ago

U.S. attorney for South Florida who oversaw centerpiece of Trump's revenge campaign resigns

6 days ago

New limits on federal student loans are steering many borrowers toward private lenders

6 days ago

Republicans rammed through Supreme Court nominees. Now Democrats will have the votes to stop them

6 days ago

Jay Rockefeller, former West Virginia governor and US senator who was part of a dynasty, dies at 89

6 days ago

As Congress returns to Democrats, one likely casualty emerges: Trump's District of Columbia projects

6 days ago

Trump touts air expo, Donalds pitches space academy at Canaveral event

5 days ago

AI data centers took a beating in the midterm elections. A reckoning may be ahead for tech giants

6 days ago

How did Flávio Bolsonaro flee Brazil? 'I'll take that to the grave,' he says

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Florida's red sea wall: Inside the 2026 governor's race

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Rubio weighs leaving administration after GOP's midterm loss

7 days ago

Hegseth to face impeachment vote as early as next week

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