President Trump has signed an executive order aimed at fixing college sports that would give federal agencies authority to cut funding at schools that don’t comply with mandates covering transfers, eligibility and pay-for-play in the rapidly changing industry.

Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump’s political enemies.

A rural Nebraska family’s lifeline hospital now sits at the center of a national fight over Medicaid cuts.

Donald Trump won the presidency by promising to lower costs and end wars.

This week, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier took to social media to announce a list of state laws that he claimed are "likely unconstitutional."

The Georgia General Assembly has ended its annual session without a plan for new equipment to overhaul the state’s voting system by a July deadline.

Two U.S. military planes were shot down in separate incidents on Friday, escalating tensions in the ongoing conflict.

After Pam Bondi became U.S. attorney general last year, conservative influencers, online sleuths and others who wanted the government to disclose all it knew about Jeffrey Epstein thought they might have a champion in the Department of Justice.

President Donald Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs.

Before picking Todd Blanche to help lead and now run the Justice Department, President Donald Trump was his client.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has accused China of “bullying” by detaining or holding up dozens of Panama-flagged ships.

The Trump administration has scaled back its plans to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

President Donald Trump said Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general.

A Colorado appeals court has ruled that a former county clerk convicted in a scheme that attempted to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election should be resentenced.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a massive new elections bill into law — and it includes a change for driver’s licenses going forward.

On Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed another batch of six bills into law, with some taking effect right off the bat.

There has been little sign Friday of the war in the Mideast winding down as Israel says it faced incoming fire from Iran, and Kuwait and Bahrain also reported being under attack.

Artificial intelligence-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, particularly when it comes to breaking news.

President Donald Trump says he'll soon sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who have gone without paychecks during the partial government shutdown that has reached 48 days.

Democrats have sued to block President Donald Trump's latest executive order restricting mail voting.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has rescinded a rule that DHS expenditures over $100,000 be personally approved by his office.

The NFL says it will keep the Rooney Rule, while Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier calls it illegal under state law and threatens a lawsuit if the league doesn’t change it by May 1.

President Donald Trump has attended oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court, marking a first for a sitting president.

Homeland Security is pausing plans to buy new warehouses for immigrant detention as it reviews contracts signed under former secretary Kristi Noem.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is in Osceola County on Wednesday and is expected to speak from the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.

The U.S. Supreme Court has finished hearing arguments over the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally or temporarily.

The bill requires verification of U.S. citizenship during voter registration, mandates paper ballots for all elections and requires congressional candidates to disclose stock trading activity while in office.

Democrats in North Carolina are scrambling to turn out rural Black voters and say the party cannot win the state without them.

State leaders said that the new laws take aim at sex offenders, pedophiles and child exploitation.

Democrats have run California for years.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance are both seen as the Republican Party’s strongest potential candidates in the next presidential election, but the Iran war could prove to be a political millstone for them.

TMZ is turning its celebrity lens on Congress, tracking lawmakers on recess as a nearly six-week Department of Homeland Security shutdown drags on.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend a Supreme Court hearing in which judges will hear arguments on his executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

In a story published March 31, 2026, about immigration detention facilities, The Associated Press erroneously reported the last name of the mayor of Surprise, Arizona.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier took to social media to declare a new push: defending Second Amendment rights for “non-dangerous felons.”

An appeals court panel has suspended a federal judge’s order for the Trump administration to bring hundreds of Voice of America employees back to work from paid leave.

Thousands of additional U.S. troops are heading to the Middle East as the Trump administration has insisted that progress has been made in talks with Iran and has threatened to escalate the war if a deal is not reached soon.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to tighten voting rules by creating a national list of eligible voters and limiting mail ballots.

A federal judge has ordered the University of Pennsylvania to hand over records about Jewish employees on campus to a federal agency as part of an investigation into antisemitic discrimination.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to suspend construction of a $400 million ballroom after it demolished the East Wing of the White House.

A three-judge panel in Wisconsin has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Democratic voters that sought to redraw the battleground state’s Republican-friendly congressional boundary lines ahead of the November midterm election.

President Donald Trump drew mostly applause as he greeted the crowd on the opening night of the musical “Chicago” at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday night.

DeSantis is expected to be joined by Attorney General James Uthmeier and Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Mark Glass.

The governor signed several new bills, including on that renames a major airport in Florida. News 6 breaks down the full list.

There’s less than a year until Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ final term in office comes to an end, and questions are surfacing about what he plans to do next.

Democrats are trying to win back the Senate.

Bruce Springsteen was in a defiant but upbeat mood in Minneapolis as he launched his latest U.S. tour.

Trump administration officials are exempting oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act.

A Florida airport has been cleared to be renamed after President Donald Trump, hours before the president separately revealed plans for a Miami skyscraper planned to house his presidential library.

Lawyers for Rep. Eric Swalwell are demanding that FBI Director Kash Patel immediately end any effort to release decade-old files from an investigation involving the California Democrat and a suspected Chinese spy that resulted in no criminal charges.

Joe and Jill Biden have added a pair of black Labrador-mix puppies named Boo and Scout to the former president’s home in Delaware, adopting the sibling dogs after they were rescued from a shelter in Tennessee.

There will be no Charlie Kirk highway in his home state of Arizona.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says it's important to closely monitor inflation amid a spike in energy prices from the Iran war as the average price for for gasoline nears $4 a gallon in the U.S. But he also said Monday, addressing students at Harvard University, that there isn't a lot Fed policymakers could do.

A New York Times attorney claims the Pentagon has flouted a court order blocking it from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters’ access to the Defense Department’s headquarters.

Mark Sanford is launching another run for Congress in South Carolina’s 1st District.

Two Arkansas Republicans with competing visions on how best to implement President Donald Trump’s agenda to overhaul elections and voting will vie for their party’s nomination for the state’s top elections job on Tuesday.

Democrats are drumming up enthusiasm for their long-shot candidate in Republican former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's old Georgia district while their party is building nationwide momentum.

Authorities in Los Angeles deployed tear gas near a federal detention center and made dozens of arrests following a “No Kings” rally this weekend.

Long security lines at airports are driving people crazy as Congress and President Donald Trump try to work out a budget stalemate.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has positioned himself as the grassroots favorite in the runoff election to determine the party's Senate nominee.

Members of Congress have repeatedly introduced bills to ensure the federal employees who control air traffic and conduct airport security screenings get paid during government shutdowns.

There seemed to be a deal.

On Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis approved seven more bills, adding to the hundreds of new laws passed in recent years.

President Donald Trump did not attend one of the biggest yearly meetings of conservatives for the first time in nearly a decade.

Tens of thousands of people joined “No Kings” protests across the U.S. and in Europe against the war in Iran and President Donald Trump’s actions.

Transportation Security Administration agents could start getting their paychecks as early as Monday after President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to pay them immediately.

A federal judge has ruled that the immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” must provide people detained there with better access to their attorneys.

“A slap in the face.” That’s how leaders of a union representing Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers across Central Florida are reacting after Gov. Ron DeSantis publicly questioned the agency’s role during the ongoing partial government shutdown.

DNA testing in the James Duckett murder case has come back inconclusive, according to Florida’s attorney general, and he is requesting that Duckett’s execution move forward.

A Missouri judge has allowed the use of new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump.

A Central Florida judge is facing a public reprimand after court records show he asked a Black defendant during a plea hearing whether she had ever “chopped cotton.”

President Donald Trump says the American air travel system has reached a "breaking point."

A pro-Iranian hacking group is claiming to have hacked an account of FBI Director Kash Patel and has posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him, along with a work resume and other personal documents.

The House Ethics Committee has found Democratic congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards.

Another teen is running for governor of Vermont, and this time, he'll be on the general election ballot.

In a story published March 27, 2026, about construction delays amid the U.S. housing crisis, The Associated Press erroneously reported that nearly everything in affordable housing projects that get federal dollars must carry a Made in the USA label.

President Donald Trump has signed a promised executive action that will pay Transportation Security Administration employees, after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress.

Minnesota will be the flagship of the “No Kings” protest movement Saturday when Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis” in a state where emotions are still raw over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and the deaths of two residents who were shot by federal officers.

A federal judge is weighing a demand by Georgia's Fulton County that the FBI return 2020 election ballots and records that were seized from an Atlanta-area warehouse.

Deep divisions were apparent over the Iran war as top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries have met in France.

Facing a convulsing stock market, President Donald Trump has moved to buy himself more time and hold off on carrying out a threat to obliterate Iran’s energy plants.

The Treasury Department plans to print President Donald Trump’s signature on every new U.S. paper bill.

President Donald Trump turned an otherwise serious Cabinet meeting into a long Sharpie story, arguing that it shows how he saves government money.

The Florida Supreme Court has issued a rare stay of execution for James Duckett, the former Mascotte police officer accused in the 1987 murder of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee.

An appeals court has paused lower court rulings in Oregon that restricted federal officers' use of tear gas during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.

A revised version of the House's aviation safety bill now has the backing of the National Transportation Safety Board, but the families of the 67 victims of last year's midair collision near Washington, D.C., still want to see tougher requirements to ensure reforms are implemented.

The House Ethics Committee is holding a rare public hearing into alleged ethics violations by Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.

A Florida man who became known as “Lectern Guy” over his role in the Jan. 6 protest took to social media to denounce property tax cuts in the state — though perhaps not for the reason some might think.

An appeals court has ruled that the U.S. can continue to detain immigrants without bond.

New U.S. Census Bureau population estimates show that U.S. growth in metro areas slowed sharply as immigration dropped and hurricanes pushed people out of some Gulf Coast counties.

A growing faction of concerned citizens across America's suburbs are positioned on the front lines of the anti-Trump resistance.

Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport shows how the partial government shutdown is straining air travel as TSA workers miss shifts without pay.

In a letter on Wednesday, Florida's attorney general accused the NFL of civil rights violations due to its hiring policies based on race and sex.

The Justice Department has settled for roughly $1.2 million a lawsuit with Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty during the Republican’s first term to lying about phone conversations with a top Russian diplomat but was later pardoned.

Republicans face growing political trouble ahead of November's midterm elections as the war in Iran keeps gas prices high and voters worry about living costs.

Florida state Rep.-elect Emily Gregory is the latest face of Democrats' optimism after she won a special legislative election in President Donald Trump's home state House district.

What looked like a series of low-profile local races is now raising big questions about power, momentum, and the future of Florida politics. This week’s episode of Politically Motivated takes a closer look at three special elections that may have outsized consequences for control of the Florida Legislature—and possibly the next redistricting battle.

At a House Homeland Security committee hearing that stretched over three hours lawmakers and Transportation Security Administration officials stressed the urgency of the ongoing government shutdown as TSA workers scrape by without pay and long security lines wind through some airports.

A top House Democrat says President Donald Trump showed off a classified map on a 2022 flight to his New Jersey golf club and held onto a record from his first term that was so sensitive only six people would have had access to it.

After a heavy bout of flight delays, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has posed a question: why not let airports handle their own security screenings?