TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ use of state resources to campaign against two constitutional amendments has prompted a flurry of lawsuits, rebukes from politicians on both sides of the aisle and at least one state official’s abrupt resignation.

One of the few people who haven’t weighed in is a key Democrat in Florida’s capital...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — A man arrested this week is accused of leaving two improvised explosive devices in restrooms at the Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, authorities said.

Bryan Robert Eckley, 46, of Tampa was arrested Wednesday on two counts of making and placing destructive devices with the intent to harm, officials announced Thursday. The charge is a ...Read more

ATLANTA — After nearly two and a half years behind bars, Atlanta rapper Young Thug has pleaded guilty in his sprawling gang and racketeering trial which has become the longest in state history.

But the musician’s legal team and Fulton County prosecutors “reached an impasse” over what his punishment should be, Judge Paige Reese Whitaker ...Read more

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says private Republican polls reveal nearly the same picture that public polls do: The 2024 presidential race is tied in each of the seven battleground states.

“Everything that we find is a reflection of exactly what the independent polls are. I think we’ve got really tight races everywhere, and ...Read more

Days after a Catholic mission that treats up to 30,000 poor people a year became the latest target of armed gangs in a new wave of coordinated attacks, the Biden administration deported dozens of people back to Haiti in the midst of worsening humanitarian conditions and rampant violence.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flight ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Johnson County, Kansas, man filed new lawsuits against three Missouri state senators, alleging they shared posts falsely identifying him as being an illegal alien and a shooter in the February Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally shooting.

Denton Loudermill, an Olathe, Kansas, native, filed new lawsuits Thursday in the U.S...Read more

A Republican-led congressional panel on the COVID-19 pandemic has referred former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice for possible prosecution for allegedly lying at a closed-door hearing.

The House of Representatives subcommittee sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland Wednesday accusing Cuomo of making “...Read more

LAS VEGAS — With Election Day less than a week away, Vice President Kamala Harris will make another push for Nevada’s vote by rallying supporters in North Las Vegas Thursday evening.

The Nevada Day — and Halloween night — event coincides with former President Donald Trump’s rally in Henderson earlier in the day.

Harris will headline ...Read more

ATLANTA — After nearly two and a half years behind bars, Atlanta rapper Young Thug is pleading guilty in his sprawling gang and racketeering trial that became the longest in state history.

But the musician’s legal team and Fulton County prosecutors “reached an impasse” over what his punishment should be, Judge Paige Reese Whitaker said ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A grand jury found a “culture of cover-up” in the internal investigation of a Kissimmee cop later indicted for excessively beating a man in 2023, implicating the now-former police chief and others of trying to protect the officer.

The 34-page report, released Thursday by the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office, offers...Read more

MIAMI — South Florida temperatures soared to record highs over the last few summers — and so did the toll on more than 1,300 people incarcerated in a sweltering men’s state prison not far from Everglades National Park, according to a new lawsuit.

Many men at the Miami-Dade Correctional Institute, an aging complex lacking air conditioning ...Read more

NEW YORK — The upstate New York woman who leapt over a guardrail and into Niagara Falls, along with her child and baby, are all presumed dead, New York State Police said Thursday.

Chianti Means, 33, was the mother of the two kids she took with her when she jumped off an overlook at Luna Island at around 9 p.m. Monday, in a leap authorities ...Read more

More than 350,000 Minnesotans cast ballots this past week ahead of the election on Tuesday, Nov. 5, bringing the current total to 919,581, according to the state Secretary of State’s office.

Local election officials have distributed 1,152,900 absentee and mail ballots in the state since voting began on Sept. 20.

“More Minnesotans voted in ...Read more

Determined to avoid the "shenanigans" that embroiled Detroit while absentee votes were being counted during the tumultuous 2020 presidential election, city officials on Thursday outlined the "rigorous" security plan they've developed this year to keep workers safe and ensure every vote is counted.

Speaking to reporters in Huntington Place's ...Read more

Viktor Orban held a phone call with Donald Trump on Thursday, raising concerns among some European Union officials that the Hungarian premier may be planning to invite him to dial into an upcoming E.U. meeting should he win next week’s U.S. election.

Orban, who posted on X that he’d spoken to the Republican presidential candidate to wish ...Read more

Republican lawmakers stepped up their campaign to pressure colleges including Harvard, Northwestern and Columbia to take a stronger stance against antisemitism with a report that scrutinizes their responses to protests that erupted after the Hamas attack on Israel last year.

The 325-page document released by the House Education and the ...Read more

BOSTON — A coalition that includes former gubernatorial candidate and Harvard professor Danielle Allen is staffing up in an attempt to field a ballot question during the 2026 election that would ask voters to approve a new preliminary election system and sign-off on campaign finance reforms.

The move by the Coalition for Healthy Democracy, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Regardless of the outcome of next week’s elections, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will make history in 2025 when the panel for the first time will have a woman as one of its two leaders.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is poised to succeed Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., as either the chair or ranking member of the panel,...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — That National Hurricane Center increased odds a Caribbean system will form while also starting to track to more systems with potential to become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, it said a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean ...Read more