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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s plan to move FBI headquarters into Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Building, preserving the previously selected Greenbelt, Maryland, site for the bureau’s long-planned new headquarters. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled Monday that the FBI and General Services Administration’s (GSA) decisions to select the Reagan Building were “not … Read more

Retiring Rep. Frederica Wilson’s chosen successor has won the crowded Democratic primary to replace her in Congress. Miami-Dade County Commissioner Oliver Gilbert is now likely to follow Wilson, D-Fla., to Congress representing her safe blue seat in Florida’s 24th Congressional District. The district is located in South Florida and includes part of Miami. It remains … Read more

Nixon bested Alexander Vindman to win Democratic nomination and now faces Republican Ashley Moody in November Trump-backed Byron Donalds wins Republican primary in race to succeed Florida governor DeSantis In an upset for the Democratic establishment, progressive Angie Nixon won the party’s US Senate primary in Florida, beating former army intelligence officer Alexander Vindman. Nixon, … Read more

President Donald Trump’s endorsement was not enough to save one scandal-plagued Florida congressman Tuesday night. Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., lost his bid for a third term representing the Sunshine State’s 7th Congressional District as a House Ethics Committee investigation and alleged federal probe weighed down his candidacy. The winner in the race was Ryan Elijah, … Read more

David Jolly, a former Republican congressman and now a Democratic candidate for governor in Florida, won a primary election on Tuesday evening, topping a crowded field of hopefuls to become the party’s nominee to replace outgoing Gov. Ron DeSantis in the Sunshine State. DeSantis is prevented by term limits from running for a third term. … Read more

National Trust for Historic Preservation filing comes after president made emergency bid for construction to continue A historic preservation group that sued to block construction of Donald Trump’s White House ballroom urged the US supreme court on Tuesday to suspend the project while it considers whether the work can continue. The National Trust for Historic … Read more

US supreme court declined to halt execution of William Frances Silvia, and state has two executions next month A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law was executed on Tuesday, continuing the state’s aggressive use of the death penalty in the final term of the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. … Read more

The traditional American Dream of homeownership slipped further out of reach across the country over the last decade, even as Washington spent hundreds of billions of dollars on housing programs, according to a new government watchdog analysis. Open The Books, a conservative watchdog that tracks government spending, analyzed a decade of home-price and household-income data … Read more

Shapiro, a potential Democratic 2028 contender, earlier welcomed data center developments. His new executive order takes a starkly different tone toward the industry.

A federal judge on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to end deportation protections for Ethiopian immigrants, putting into effect all of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) terminations the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pursued for select countries. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston lifted a temporary hold on the decades-old … Read more