Florida Democrats Look For A Way To End Election Woes
Democrats are looking to big city mayors and their congressional delegation to help pull them out of their slump at the polls.
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Democrats are looking to big city mayors and their congressional delegation to help pull them out of their slump at the polls.
The University of Florida confirmed on Thursday one of their engineering professors had been detained in Abu Dhabi by the United Arab Emirates.
Following a "60 Minutes" report that said Lumber Liquidators' laminate flooring made in China may not meet California's health and safety standards, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson is requesting that three federal agencies investigate the company.
The release of American contractor Alan Gross from a Cuban prison is representative of a marked change in U.S./Cuba relations.
How best to handle the threat Ebola poses to South Florida has been the topic of conversation among politicians, health officials and emergency personnel over the last several days.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency was in South Florida Thursday to talk about climate change.
The U.S. government is taking preemptive measures to stop Ebola at the doorstep. The plan is to have five U.S. airports take the temperature of passengers entering from West Africa.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson will hold a series of meetings on defense issues this week in conflict-battered Ukraine.
An announcement by the U.S. Secretary of State concerning new sanctions on two dozen high-ranking Venezuelan officials linked to human rights abuses was met with party line reaction by some of Florida's top politicians.
Florida's senior senator is calling for a federal investigation, after our story on the birth tourism businesses that are springing up between Miami and Moscow. The agencies cater to wealthy and middle class women from former Soviet Bloc countries who want to give birth to an instant American citizen. But it's the potential for Medicaid fraud that CBS4 investigates has uncovered, that is prompting the most outrage, reports CBS4 Anchor Rick Folbaum.
A 47-year-old Florida woman has pleaded guilty to mailing faux-anthrax letters to the offices of U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson.
Early one morning last year, Mary Zielinski received a call from the VA hospital in Miami telling her that her son was dead.
Florida's two senators, Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Marco Rubio, sat side by side Thursday morning at a Venezuelan restaurant in Doral to condemn what they describe as the country's repressive regime.
Governor Rick Scott has asked the secretary of the state's main health agency to order inspections for federal hospitals that serve veterans.
Florida Democrats have criticized Gov. Rick Scott for failing to provide leadership or take ownership over the state's troubled $63 million unemployment website.
The Associated Press published a story about missing Coral Springs man Robert Levinson Thursday, but not before Senator Bill Nelson asked the AP to not publish the story.
After months of playing coy, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson for the first time on Tuesday publicly acknowledged he is keeping open the option of running for governor.
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, along with two other senators, is pushing for an extension of a federal law which bans undetectable guns.
Florida officials have assured the White House that they will fully cooperate with President Obama's plans to have insurers reinstate anyone's canceled health insurance policies.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) is calling for new and tougher federal laws to crackdown on identity thieves who use someone else's name to steal their tax refunds.
With just hours to spare, Congress passed a plan to avoid a default and end a 16 day partial government shutdown. The votes came in late, but just in time to avoid the crisis. Just after midnight President Barack Obama signed the bill into law.
As Congress prepares to debate whether or not to allow military action against the Syrian regime of Basha al-Assad, representatives from South Florida have already started to stake out their positions on the issue.
Unable to negotiate a settlement on how to allocate water between Florida, Georgia and Alabama, Governor Rick Scott announced Tuesday that the sunshine state is going to sue the state of Georgia.
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson will brief Haitian-American leaders in Miami on Wednesday when he returns from a four day visit to their homeland.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet voted Tuesday to allow university researchers to exhume human remains from unmarked graves at a defunct Florida Panhandle reform school.
A driver faces several felony charges after police said she tried to walk away from a crash in downtown Miami that killed 2 people.
A law enforcement source said that the raid is tied to the investigation of the plot to kill Alex Vega.
There were several FBI raids across South Florida Friday, one of them shocked people living in a Pinecrest neighborhood.
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A driver faces several felony charges after police said she tried to walk away from a crash in downtown Miami that killed 2 people.
A law enforcement source said that the raid is tied to the investigation of the plot to kill Alex Vega.
There were several FBI raids across South Florida Friday, one of them shocked people living in a Pinecrest neighborhood.
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The American Automobile Association said this is a dangerous time of year for young drivers.
Florida insurance companies made money last year for the first time in seven years.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled Sept. 26 to discuss whether it will hear a First Amendment challenge to a 2021 Florida law that placed restrictions on major social-media companies.
The number of people traveling to Florida during the second quarter of 2023 decreased compared to a year earlier, according to estimates released Wednesday by the state's tourism-marketing agency.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday said Walt Disney Parks and Resorts should drop a federal lawsuit that claims retaliation by the state and accept changes to a special district that long benefited the theme-park giant.
In North Carolina, Harris took note of falling inflation but added, "Still, we know that many Americans don't yet feel that progress in their daily lives."
An unfounded claim that election workers will invalidate ballots by writing on them is prompting election clerks in Florida to correct the record ahead of next week's state primary.
Trump has not appeared at an outdoor rally since mid-July, when a gunman took several shots, grazing his ear.
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing his criminal case in New York to delay his sentencing until after the presidential election in November.
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris appeared together to announce lower costs on 10 prescription drugs for Medicare recipients.
Jim DeFede goes one-on-one with Broward School Board Chair Lori Alhadeff on a number of topics.
Jim DeFede focuses on the controversy with Miami-Dade Commissioner and former Doral Mayor JC Bermudez.
Jim DeFede focuses on the crisis in Venezuela with the director of the well-respected website Caracas Chronicles.
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Jim DeFede sits down with Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava who is running for reelection.
Parents and other caregivers urged to stop using loungers linked to 5 fatalities and an infant bed tied to 1 death.
Florida cucumber grower used untreated canal water found to be tainted with salmonella bacteria, laboratory tests found.
Officials have been warning of a return to the pre-pandemic trends of pertussis, also known as whooping cough.
Staring at an iPad screen too much may keep little kids from learning to control their emotions, a new study finds.
A viral TikTok recipe that includes melting Jolly Ranchers landed a 9-year-old in the hospital with severe burns.
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A viral TikTok recipe that includes melting Jolly Ranchers landed a 9-year-old in the hospital with severe burns.
The American Automobile Association said this is a dangerous time of year for young drivers.
A string of recalls connected to Wisconsin-based supplier Schreiber Foods has now extended to Aldi stores after similar recalls at Hy-Vee and other grocery chains.
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Taylor Swift's blockbuster "Eras Tour" resumed in London on Thursday after her concerts in Vienna were canceled earlier this month because of an alleged terror plot.
Gena Rowlands, hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft, died at 94 on Wednesday, her representatives confirmed.
"F-1 Trillion," the new album from one of the biggest pop stars in the world, features Post Malone's duets with some of the biggest names in country, including Luke Combs, Blake Shelton, Morgan Wallen and Dolly Parton.
Steve Martin's next role will not be the Midwestern politician the internet hoped he'd portray.
"To have all this taken away by some men being so fueled by hatred for no reason at all makes me so beyond angry I can't put it into words," one fan said on social media.