Politics

By  MARY CLARE JALONICK and JOEY CAPPELLETTI WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday, after weeks of delays and fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill. Senators voted 52-47 to pass the $70 billion legislation to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol […]

By  LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — The House for the first time Wednesday approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long conflict that has reordered politics at home and abroad. House Speaker Mike Johnson had tried to prevent

By Lawrence Mower Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau Gov. Ron DeSantis has made some bold claims about his property tax plan since unveiling it last week. He’s said 92% of primary homeowners could pay no property taxes. He’s touted a state fund that will help rural counties weather the shortfall. Some of those claims are outdated thanks to the

By Claire Heddles Byron Donalds has built his campaign around Donald Trump’s endorsement, but he’s willing to split with the president on at least one issue: He said in Miami Monday that he’d rather see state-level regulation of artificial intelligence and data centers than the national policy framework Trump wants. “If you’re going to talk about

By Milena Malaver A federal judge in Miami is looking into allegations that Donald Trump defrauded her court by suing the IRS for the sole purpose of forcing a $1.8 billion settlement that would compensate victims of “government weaponization” and shut the door on the government’s pursuit of tax claims against the president, his family and

By Tess Riski Want to know how much money city of Miami employees make? You can now search for that information in an online database. This week, Miami District 3 Commissioner Rolando Escalona announced the launch of the publicly accessible online salary portal. Escalona, who recently replaced Commissioner Joe Carollo, pledged on the campaign trail last

By Bea L. Hines As I read the headline in last Wednesday’s Herald, “Proud Boys leader expects ‘tens of millions’ from Trump’s anti-weaponization fund,” I couldn’t help but think that our president – the one called to protect and serve the American people – might actually pay the people who assaulted our nation’s Capital on Jan.

By Miami Herald Archives Along with her advocacy for South Florida issues and people, U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson is best known for her hats. She has hundreds of them in her colorful collection. “My hat is so much a part of me,” she told the Miami Herald in 2019. That was when she considered taking off

By Gray Rohrer | News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s newly drawn congressional districts will remain intact, a Tallahassee judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Joshua Hawkes of the Leon Circuit Court rejected the push from two voting rights organizations and a group of voters to strike down the map drawn up by an aide for Gov. Ron DeSantis and

By Gray Rohrer News Service of Florida House and Senate leaders reached a final deal on the state budget late Sunday night, the last step in an extended process that required a special session to complete for the second year in a row. The spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 will be nearly