President Joe Biden is signing a proclamation to establish two new national monuments in California in part to honor two tribes.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has ordered an investigation into security deficiencies and safety measures in place before an Army veteran sped around a police blockade and raced down Bourbon Street, killing 14 New Year’s revelers.

Some lawmakers emotionally recalled the violence.

The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Mexico says he anticipates “major changes” in the diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and Mexico during the incoming Trump administration.

Donald Trump Jr. is heading to Greenland, visiting the Danish territory as his father has continued to suggest that the U.S. could somehow take control of it.

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill that transfers the land that includes the old RFK Stadium from the federal government to city control.

A federal judge in New York City has found Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for failing to properly respond to information requests in a $148 million defamation judgment against him.

The U.S. on Monday eased some restrictions on Syria’s transitional government after Islamist insurgents ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

President-elect Donald Trump is promising to replace the head of the National Archives.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a $322 billion budget without a deficit.

The Federal Reserve’s top financial regulator said Monday that he would resign next month, avoiding a potential confrontation with the incoming Trump administration and Republicans in the Senate.

Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump’s election under the tightest national security level possible.

Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel are filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s decision to block a proposed nearly $15 billion deal for Nippon to acquire Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to let voters repeal and create state laws without legislative involvement met opposition from the Republican leaders of the Legislature, who signaled that the idea is likely to be rejected for a second time.

President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters.

Vice President Kamala Harris says Jan. 6, 2025, was a “good day” for democracy as she oversaw the peaceful certification of Donald Trump's victory.

China has slammed a decision by the U.S. Treasury to sanction a Beijing-based cybersecurity company for its alleged role in multiple hacking incidents targeting critical U.S. infrastructure.

Jimmy Carter considered himself such an environmentalist that he made green his signature campaign color.

Congress has certified Donald Trump as the 2024 presidential election winner without challenge.

President Joe Biden is decrying efforts to downplay a mob of Donald Trump supporters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block certification of the election in 2020.

President Joe Biden is calling on incoming Democratic lawmakers to always be mindful of other people's perspectives — even when they may be wrong.

On the latest episode of the This Week in South Florida podcast, host Glenna Milberg speaks to Miami-Dade Sheriff-elect Rosie Cordero-Stutz, attorney Rafael Yaniz, community leader Marili Cancio, attorney Stephen Johnson and CEO of Kind Designs Anya Freeman.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg speaks to Miami-Dade Sheriff-elect Rosie Cordero-Stutz, attorney Rafael Yaniz, community leader Marili Cancio, attorney Stephen Johnson and CEO of Kind Designs Anya Freeman.

Incoming first lady Melania Trump will be the subject of a new documentary directed by Brett Ratner and distributed by Amazon Prime Video.

Four years ago, then-President Donald Trump rallied his supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol and urged his vice president to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory.

New York’s new toll for drivers entering the center of Manhattan is starting up after it withstood years of political wrangling, a last-minute pause and a flurry of legal challenges.

President-elect Donald Trump made an appearance with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who was visiting his Mar-a-Lago club.

By blocking a Japanese company’s takeover of U.S. Steel, President Joe Biden says he is protecting good jobs in the American heartland.

Jimmy Carter was the first U_S_ president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa, declaring “the day of the so-called ugly American is over.”.

Jimmy Carter’s long public goodbye began in Georgia, where the 39th U.S. president’s life started more than 100 years ago.

Mike Johnson was reelected as House speaker on a single vote.

The judge in President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money case has made a dramatic decision that could nevertheless bring the case to a muted end.

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter are set to take place in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York dealt with a host of weighty, unprecedented questions before deciding Friday that the president-elect should be sentenced later this month for the crime of falsifying business records.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed part of a bill cast by state lawmakers as protecting the medical free speech of doctors and other health professionals.

President-elect Donald Trump has expressed frustration that flags will be flying at half-staff when he takes office later this month.

In an extraordinary turn, a judge has set President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — little over a week before he’s due to return to the White House.

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune is kicking off the new session with a promise to preserve the filibuster, saying in his first floor speech as leader that his priority will be to “ensure the Senate stays the Senate.”.

Alcohol is a leading cause of cancer, a risk that should be clearly labeled on drinks Americans consume, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy proposed on Friday.

A little more than a week after announcing his plan to nominate a Miami-Dade commissioner as ambassador to Panama, President-elect Donald Trump is once again looking to South Florida to fill a diplomatic role.

The 119th Congress is convening for the first time and House Speaker Mike Johnson has narrowly been reelected to his post.

Virginia voters will begin the new year filling state Senate and House vacancies on Tuesday in a trio of special elections that could determine control of the narrowly divided chambers.

Most of the U.S. holds its major primary and general elections in even-numbered years, but there are a handful of places where competitive congressional, state and local-level contests will be happening in 2025.

Some transgender people worry President Joe Biden did not do enough to shield them from the torrent of Trump policies to come.

Republican Mike Johnson has narrowly won reelection to the House speakership on a dramatic first-ballot vote, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts in a tense standoff.

A new poll finds that Republican voters are more confident in the accuracy of U.S. elections now that Donald Trump has won.

President Joe Biden has awarded the Medal of Honor to military recipients who displayed heroism and self-sacrifice in combat and the Medal of Valor to first responders who put their own lives at risk to save others.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has laughed off some unflattering comments aimed at him on social media in the past year, and had his teenage son translate what one barb meant.

Former Florida Gov. Buddy MacKay, who lost to Jeb Bush in 1998 but still served 23 days in office after the sudden death of Gov. Lawton Chiles, has died. He was 91.

Donald Trump is expected to hold a big Washington rally the day before he’s sworn in as the nation’s 47th president.

Mike Johnson is fighting for his political life, again.

Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of California has always stood apart.

It was a decision that robbed hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at Olympic glory.

President Joe Biden has awarded the second-highest civilian medal to Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot.

On Jan. 1, SB 184, known as the 'Halo Law' took effect in Florida.

On Jan. 1, 2025, 12 new Florida laws are set to go into effect.

Former President Jimmy Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive evangelical.

President-elect Donald Trump says he’s planning to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a defense Tuesday of judicial independence, which he said is under threat from intimidation, disinformation and the prospect of public officials defying court orders.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on two groups linked to Russian and Iranian disinformation campaigns targeting this year's election.

The Dartmouth men’s basketball team has dropped its attempt to form a union.

A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks.

The use of mail ballots exploded in 2020 as states looked for ways to accommodate voters during the COVID-19 pandemic.

President-elect Donald Trump calls his Mar-a-Lago resort the "center of the universe.”.

Sarah McBride made history in Delaware, as the first openly transgender state senator in the United States.

U.S. Rep.-elect Sarah McBride will be sworn in as the first openly transgender member of Congress on Jan. 3.

Jimmy Carter helped expand democracy around the world long after he left the White House.

Funeral services honoring former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, will be held in Georgia and Washington, D.C.

Tributes to former President Jimmy Carter are pouring in from his small hometown of Plains, Georgia, and around the world.

A U.S. official says arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in December are little changed from a month earlier.

Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president.

President-elect Donald Trump has endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson, providing crucial backing as the Louisiana Republican prepares for what is expected to be another contentious speakership race this week.

A federal appeals court has upheld a jury's finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

In a deeply partisan Congress, one group of lawmakers with a shared background is working in a bipartisan way to try to pass important legislation.

Jimmy Carter’s funeral will feature an interstate choreography of grief, ceremony and logistics that is characteristic of state funerals.

A moment of silence was held for former President Jimmy Carter before the Atlanta Falcons' game at the Washington Commanders.

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.

Republicans made claims about illegal voting by noncitizens a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign messaging.

President-elect Donald Trump appears to be siding with Elon Musk and his other backers in the tech industry as a dispute over immigration visas has divided his supporters.

A federal judge is signaling that Rudy Giuliani's contempt hearing next Friday might not end so well for the former New York City mayor and onetime personal lawyer for President-elect Donald Trump.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, as early as January 14th, in a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday afternoon.

President Joe Biden has imposed sanctions on Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of Georgia’s ruling political party.

An online spat between factions of Donald Trump’s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in the president-elect’s political movement into public display.

The State Department says an American schoolteacher arrested in Russia on drug charges more than three years ago has been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained.

New laws taking effect with the new year will affect Hollywood actors, social media stars and chatty motorists.

U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north Gaza.

Republicans in Congress plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, seeing an opportunity with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress.

A lot of Americans, after an intense presidential election campaign, are looking for a break in political news.

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Christmas that he intends to appoint Miami-Dade Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera as ambassador to Panama.

The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December carefully dodging questions.

Former President Bill Clinton will be home for Christmas after being discharged from a Washington hospital where he was treated for the flu.

A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever.

President-elect Donald Trump is decrying rising shipping fees Panama has imposed to use the Panama Canal.

The House Ethics Committee’s long-awaited report into Rep. Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegations of misconduct, including sex with an underage girl, that tanked the Florida Republican’s nomination to lead the Justice Department.

Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions are sharing a range of emotions, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences.

First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal.

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row.

That Donald Trump failed to achieve central goals in the government shutdown fight alongside Elon Musk seemed unimportant to many speakers and attendees at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest.

Donald Trump is suggesting that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal.