Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez said Thursday he is setting up a select committee to look into redrawing congressional districts, as Republicans seek to keep control of Congress in 2026.

President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census that would exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally from the head count which determines political power and federal spending.

The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.

A federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to construction of an immigration detention center — built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — as attorneys argue whether it violates environmental laws.

Vice President JD Vance’s security detail had an Ohio river’s water level raised last weekend to accommodate a kayaking trip he and his family took for his 41st birthday.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is suing Lt. Gov. Burt Jones over how Jones is financing his campaign as both Republicans run for governor in 2026.

American businesses and consumers soon will have a better idea of how President Donald Trump’s foreign trade agenda might affect them.

President Donald Trump has recognized nearly 100 past recipients of the Purple Heart at the White House.

President Donald Trump has begun levying higher import taxes on dozens of countries.

Intel’s shares slumped Thursday as President Donald Trump said in a social media post that the chipmaker’s CEO must resign immediately.

When Alaska Natives debate proposals to drill and mine the landscape of the nation’s largest state, it involves more than an environmental or economic question.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has been a career Democrat in the battleground state of Michigan but is now planning to run for governor as an independent.

President Donald Trump is increasing pressure on Republican-led states to redraw congressional boundaries.

President Donald Trump says he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin even if the Russian leader won’t meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Hundreds of Harvard researchers have fallen victim to the freeze on funding by the Trump administration.

Global financial markets are reacting to President Donald Trump's tariff adjustments.

Texas Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a Republican plan for congressional redistricting are pleading for donations to help cover their costs.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing.

A shooting at Fort Stewart on Wednesday has injured five people and raised concerns about safety on military bases.

The Trump administration wants to end two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health.

Top Trump administration officials boast that a new partnership to expand immigrant detention in Indiana will be the next so-called “Alligator Alcatraz.”.

President Donald Trump once hailed mRNA vaccines as a "miracle" for combating COVID-19.

The Trump administration has suspended $584 million in federal grants for the University of California, Los Angeles.

President Donald Trump has hinted that Vice President JD Vance might be the favorite to succeed him as the leader of the MAGA movement.

Research shows mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Department of Homeland Security has removed age limits for new hires at the agency responsible for immigration enforcement.

President Donald Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips.

Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn has announced that she is entering the open Tennessee governor’s race in 2026.

The nation is marking the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states.

The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago but has been slowly eroding for more than a decade.

A federal judge heard arguments about an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”.

Texas Republicans have launched efforts to redraw congressional maps to secure more GOP seats in the U.S. House.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer met with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss the impact tariffs and Medicaid changes are having on her state.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from reallocating more than $4 billion meant to help communities protect against natural disasters.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to remove from office a top state lawmaker he called the “ringleader” of Democrats who left the state to block a vote on a new congressional voting map pushed by President Donald Trump.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to criminally investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe from the Obama era.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants George Santos' seven-year prison sentence to be commuted.

The researchers behind the most recent UNF Public Opinion Poll, Michael Binder and Sean Freeder, will join News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton on this week’s Politics & Power.

President Donald Trump made an unexpected appearance on the roof of the White House's West Wing.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday established a task force on the 2028 Olympic Games being held in Los Angeles that he said would ensure the event is “safe, seamless and historically successful.”.

Florida’s attorney general is suing several online pornography websites, saying they are violating a new state law that requires age verification before accessing adult content. That law, HB 3, went into effect on Jan. 1, but it is still being contested in the courts.

The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe may show links to President Donald Trump and other former top officials.

A new poll finds young people in the United States are less engaged in politics than older generations are.

The race for Detroit’s next mayor is set to pit a longtime City Council member against a popular pastor.

Texas and California are at the center of a national political power struggle that could reshape Trump's second presidency.

President Donald Trump has a pattern of dismissing or altering data that reflects poorly on him.

California Democrats are weighing new political maps that could slash five Republican-held House seats in the liberal-leaning state while bolstering Democratic incumbents in other battleground districts.

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after President Donald Trump on Friday fired the official who oversees it.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is moving forward with a Justice Department investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

A federal judge has ordered officials to produce agreements showing who has legal authority at “Alligator Alcatraz,” an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades.

The friendliness between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump was seen as a relationship like no other.

In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent weaker-than-expected numbers were phony and that positive numbers reported before the 2024 election were manipulated to make him look bad.

Lawmakers have left Washington for the annual August recess, but a few weeks of relative quiet at the U.S. Capitol can’t mask the partisan tensions that are brewing on government funding and President Donald Trump’s nominees.

Dozens of Democratic state lawmakers in Texas have scattered across the country in a last-ditch effort to prevent Republicans from adopting U.S. House maps that President Donald Trump wants in place before the 2026 midterm elections.

Republican Nate Morris warmed up a recent crowd of party faithful by gushing about President Donald Trump and recounting his own life’s journey.

A spat over congressional redistricting in Texas marks the latest episode in a long national history of gerrymandering.

William Stier, an attorney and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, joined us on The Morning Show to break down the latest firing by President Donald Trump that has sent shockwaves through Washington.

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers have left Texas in an attempt to block the adoption of redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump.

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina says she plans to start a statewide series of town halls this week in Myrtle Beach now that she's running for governor.

Democrats are out of power in Washington but hold 23 governors' seats, including in five of the seven presidential battlegrounds Donald Trump swept last year.

Former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley has announced his 2026 Republican bid for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.

Texas Democrats have prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump.

Texas Democrats have fled the state in an effort to keep Republicans from approving a new U.S. House map that could boost their slim congressional majority next year.

Texas Democrats have left the state in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional maps that Republicans hope will net them several additional U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterm elections.

President Donald Trump has criticized radio host Charlamagne Tha God, saying that the broadcaster "knows nothing about me or what I have done."

The Justice Department is ramping up an effort to get election data from the states.

A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”.

The Senate is leaving Washington Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to advance dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees.

The Senate has confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital, filling the post after President Donald Trump withdrew his controversial first pick, conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. Pirro is a former county prosecutor and elected judge.

The Smithsonian says the White House did not pressure it to remove references to President Donald Trump's impeachments from an exhibit.

President Donald Trump’s tariff onslaught this week left a lot of losers – from small, poor countries like Laos and Algeria to wealthy U.S. trading partners like Canada and Switzerland.

A renowned Kentucky picnic turned into a Republican political skirmish on Saturday.

Some Republican-controlled states are moving to redraw legislative maps to pad their party's narrow House majority in Washington.

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s temporary order blocking the Trump administration from conducting indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California.

The Smithsonian’s removal of a reference to the 2019 and 2021 impeachments of President Donald Trump from a panel in an exhibition about the American presidency comes in the wake of Trump administration actions like removing the name of a gay rights activist from a Navy ship, pushing for Republican supporters in Congress to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and getting rid of the leadership at the Kennedy Center.

President Donald Trump's economic policies are facing scrutiny as weak indicators emerge.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has long helped pay for PBS, NPR and 1,500 local radio and television stations and programs like “Sesame Street."

Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that angered President Donald Trump.

A federal judge has agreed to temporarily block the Trump administration’s efforts to expand fast-track deportations of immigrants who legally entered the U.S. under a process known as humanitarian parole.

The Washington Commanders' plan to return to the site of their former home at RFK Stadium has cleared another significant hurdle.

President Donald Trump on Friday had his team remove the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in April and May than previously reported.

President Donald Trump has ordered the repositioning of two U.S. nuclear submarines.

Democrats are arguing that a Republican plan for redrawing districts in Texas to create more winnable U.S. House seats for the GOP is an attack on Black and Hispanic voters.

The Smithsonian Institution has removed a reference to President Donald Trump's impeachments from an exhibit.

American businesses and consumers are finding the contours of President Donald Trump’s foreign trade agenda taking shape.

Chris Hand, a government law attorney and government efficiency expert, joined us on The Morning Show to discuss what the Florida DOGE team is looking for and whether the governor expects to find any inefficiency or impropriety.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday placing tariffs on many U.S. trade partners — the next step in his trade agenda that will test the global economy and alliances.

President Donald Trump’s latest tariff moves have drawn worry from Wall Street as stocks slumped and Treasury yields fell sharply.

Democrats are launching a nationwide summer blitz designed to force vulnerable Republicans to defend President Donald Trump’s big tax and spending bill, especially Medicaid cuts.

Detroit voters will take a key step toward choosing a new mayor in the municipal primary on Tuesday, when nine candidates will appear on the ballot in the city’s first open-seat mayoral race in a dozen years.

FBI Director Kash Patel has provoked diplomatic discomfort in New Zealand by saying the opening of a new office in Wellington aims to counter China's influence.

Democrats still in the dumps over last year’s elections have found cause for optimism in North Carolina, where former Gov. Roy Cooper jumped into the race for that state’s newly open seat with a vow to address voters’ persistent concerns about making ends meet.

President Donald Trump's order imposing new tariffs on scores of countries and the European Union starting in seven days has injected a new dose of uncertainty in an already uncertain process.

Two Colorado deputies have been disciplined for violating state law by helping federal agents make immigration arrests.

The race to become California’s next governor has kicked into a new gear.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley has launched his campaign for North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat.

A Washington panel has recommended the disbarment of Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department official who aided President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Numerous countries around the world are facing the prospect of new tariffs on their exports to the United States on Aug. 7 because they haven’t yet reached a trade deal with the Trump administration.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it has made over 1,000 tentative job offers as it ramps up hiring.