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For the first time on Wednesday, the DeSantis administration acknowledged that it used opioid settlement money to campaign against a recreational marijuana amendment on the 2024 ballot.

Shevaun Harris, the secretary for ...Read more

After weeks of pressure from rank-and-file Republicans, the House on Wednesday passed a bill aimed at creating a federal voter ID mandate.

Dubbed the SAVE America Act, it would require Americans to prove their citizenship...Read more

President Trump on Wednesday issued an executive order directing the Department of Defense to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants. He also announced new funding to restart and upgrade coal plants in several states...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi repeatedly sparred with lawmakers on Wednesday as she was pressed over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and faced demands for greater ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pamela Bondi showed little regret during an oversight hearing Wednesday for the Justice Department’s controversial handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, a release that publicly exposed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on Wednesday came down hard on various sectors of the U.S. prescription drug supply chain during a hearing to shed light on the reasons for rising costs.

At a House ...Read more

Rep. Bobby Scott waived onto the House Veterans Affairs Committee today to ask Veterans Affairs Sec. Doug Collins about staffing shortages at the VA’s 10-month-old outpatient clinic in Chesapeake.

At the hearing, ...Read more

The word “unprecedented” is getting a workout after a grand jury in Washington on Feb. 10, 2026, rebuffed an attempt by federal prosecutors to get an indictment against perceived enemies of President Donald Trump....Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats sparred Wednesday on the potential real-world harms of a partial shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security, as Congress marched toward a funding deadline for the agency amid ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi repeatedly sparred with lawmakers on Wednesday as she was pressed over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and faced demands for greater ...Read more

After a three-day partial federal government shutdown, Congress has reauthorized the National Flood Insurance Program until Sept. 30.

For North Carolina homeowners who rely on federally backed flood insurance, the ...Read more

Florida voters adopted the current state Constitution in 1968 to create a modern democracy. Nothing lasts forever.

It brought self-governing home rule to cities and counties, which were mere puppets of a backward, rural-...Read more

Washington’s top diplomat in Port-au-Prince told a Senate appropriations panel on Tuesday that security and stability are the cornerstones of the Trump administration’s policy toward Haiti, where some 20 armed groups ...Read more

President Donald Trump says he knows nothing of the racist post that went out on his social media account. We're skeptical, considering the president's juvenile impulses and predilection for crudity. A meme depicting ...Read more

For 15 years, Politico had annually named its “Lie of the Year.”

But by December of last year the deceit was so unceasing that the publication named 2025 “The Year of Lies.”

PolitiFact’s Editor-in-Chief Katie ...Read more

A Kamala Harris-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presidential ticket is gaining some traction among desperate Democrats but it could be the best case scenario for Republicans in 2028.

Harris – trounced by Donald Trump in 2024 �...Read more