WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump took office, he passed down one key instruction on how to handle Latin America: Make Marco Rubio happy. Rubio, a Florida Republican and son of Cuban immigrants ...

TALLAHASSEE — Before Matt Gaetz burst onto the national political scene as the sharp-tongued, attention-grabbing defender of Donald Trump, he was best known in Florida as “Baby Gaetz.” The nickname ...

TALLAHASSEE — Trish Duggan, a wealthy Florida Scientologist, has become one of the GOP’s top donors, including giving $4 million alone to a pro-Donald Trump super PAC, campaign finance records show.

TALLAHASSEE — President Donald Trump‘s campaign has severed ties with Florida adviser Susie Wiles, leaving the president without a top adviser in a major battleground state going into the 2020 ...

TALLAHASSEE — A top Florida elections official testified in federal court on Monday that as many as 85,000 voters might be ineligible to cast ballots in the battleground state, but it could take years ...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida reached another grim Covid milestone amid the Delta surge: Since August, the number of Covid-related child deaths in the state has more than doubled. The childhood fatalities ...

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis, in his push to reopen classrooms this fall, said Thursday that if retailers are allowed to operate, schools should be, too. The risk of children getting sick is ...

TALLAHASSEE — A mysterious group is the driving lobbying force behind sweeping legislation that would beef up Florida’s data privacy laws. It has hired a Tallahassee-based lobbying team and spent $300 ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis directed his secretary of state to launch an investigation into a Facebook program that could have given incumbent politicians “an advantage over ...

TALLAHASSEE — A Miami activist Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office handpicked to amplify his criticism of critical race theory has espoused views aligned with QAnon conspiracy theories and appears to support ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis has become arguably the most powerful governor in Florida’s history. The Republican governor opened Florida’s new legislative session this week by pushing for ...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s flagship university is under fire for violating the free speech rights of three professors it blocked from testifying in a lawsuit challenging the state’s new law voting ...