The Florida House and Senate passed a bill to redraw congressional district lines on Wednesday, with potentially big implications for the November election.

Over a month after a Florida gubernatorial candidate announced that he was banned from every Waffle House in the state, he is now considering making a return.

Two key priorities of Gov. Ron DeSantis that failed to advance in the regular legislative session were discarded as the House opened a special session on Tuesday. House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, said the House remains “fairly clear on our position” against the proposals to expand vaccine exemptions for public K-12 students and to protect consumers’ interactions with artificial intelligence.

Florida lawmakers are back at work in Tallahassee to pass a map favored by Gov. Ron DeSantis to redraw Florida’s Congressional districts. The session was also supposed to address DeSantis’ AI Bill of Rights and an expansion on vaccine exemptions, but House Speaker Daniel Perez said no bills were filed on those issues.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office submitted a new congressional map to the Legislature on Monday that would drastically alter several U.S. House districts in Central and South Florida. The new map, if approved by lawmakers in a special session that starts Tuesday, could flip a handful of districts from Democrats to Republicans, helping the GOP retain control of the U.S. House in November.

U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody made it official Thursday, paying the qualifying fee to run for the federal office she was appointed to last year.

Brazil’s Senate dealt a political blow to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday by rejecting his appointee to the Supreme Court, the first in more than 130 years.

With Florida’s new redrawn congressional map passed, two major questions are driving the conversation: why should voters care — and is what’s happening even legal?

Several states already are taking steps to respond to a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana.

Cultural and historic preservation groups are urging a federal judge to block President Donald Trump from renovating the Kennedy Center.

Federal investigators say the man who carried out a mass shooting at Brown University and later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor did not act randomly, but targeted places and people that held symbolic meaning tied to his perceived failures.

Prosecutors say singer D4vd killed 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez by stabbing her multiple times.

Pockets of heavy rain is possible this weekend. Here’s the timing so far

A Central Florida high school was forced to act on Wednesday after a former student showed up with a loaded firearm, according to the school district.

The Republican-controlled House gave approval to a three-year extension of a key U.S. surveillance program after weeks of infighting.

The multi-day training simulates real-world emergency scenarios — including those that follow a hurricane — from locating survivors to surveying property damage.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted a white-tie dinner at the White House with King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

Crazy Hot Buys, the liquidation outlet store that opened at the Oviedo Mall on Black Friday, will be closing its doors next month - just five months after moving into the former Sears location.

Elon Musk took the stand for the second day Wednesday in the landmark trial that pits the world’s richest person against Sam Altman, a fellow OpenAI co-founder he accuses of betraying promises to keep the company as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity’s benefit.

An alleged Islamic State group militant from Afghanistan has been convicted of aiding the terror organization that took credit for a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport.

Anastasia Potapova has become the first ‘lucky loser’ to reach the semifinals of a WTA 1000 event.

The limited-time fan zone is packed with interactive games, hands-on LEGO builds, and larger-than-life character moments.

News 6 is getting a firsthand look at waterways across Central Florida amid reports of low water levels.

Former FBI Director James Comey has appeared briefly in court, kick-starting a criminal case against him that legal experts say presents significant hurdles for the prosecution and will likely be a challenge for the Justice Department to win.