The campaign for Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds says it has accepted a proposal from News4JAX to participate in a debate in North Florida.

The U.S. is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead and the nation shaken.

Wyoming's attorney general is investigating how two U.S. Department of Justice officials questioned poll workers in the state during its Aug. 18 primary.

Hours after Jacksonville’s 14th police involved shooting this year, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters appeared at a campaign victory rally in Orlando for Republican Candidate for governor, Byron Donalds.

Sean Freeder, a political analyst and Head of the UNF Public Opinion Research Lab, joined News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton on The Morning Show to discuss the potential impact on the November midterms.

Results in primary elections for Flagler County & Palm Coast races

Results in Florida's primary elections for chief financial officer & agriculture commissioner

Results in Florida's primary elections for governor

Results in Florida's U.S. House primary elections

A super PAC affiliated with U.S. House Democrats plans to increase its campaign advertising reservations in Cleveland, Ohio, by roughly $6 million on Friday, in response to Republican Rep. Max Miller’s decision to proceed with his reelection campaign despite allegations of abuse by his ex-wife Emily Moreno.

Fresh on the heels of Abdul El-Sayed’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary win in Michigan, Wisconsin voters will decide another high-profile clash between the party’s establishment and progressive wings in a gubernatorial primary on Tuesday.

Vermont Democrats will try on Tuesday to do something they’ve been unable to do in five previous attempts: nominate a gubernatorial candidate who can beat Republican Gov. Phil Scott.

The incumbent District 4 commissioner, Mac Johns, defeated one challenger in the Republican primary in August. Since no other candidates qualified for the race, the August primary was open to all voters, and as the primary winner, Johns is re-elected.

The incumbent District 2 commissioner, Channing Dobbs, defeated one challenger in the Republican primary in August. Since no other candidates qualified for the race, the August primary was open to all voters, and as the primary winner, Dobbs is re-elected.

The incumbent District 4 commissioner, Larry Harvey, is seeking re-election, and defeated one challenger in the Republican primary in August. Harvey will now face Democrat Joshua Florence and no party affiliation candidate Ronald Burckhard in the general election in November.

The current District 4 commissioner, Republican Leann Pennington, is seeking re-election, and defeated two challengers in the Republican primary in August. No Democrats qualified for the race. However, a write-in candidate did qualify, and the race will appear on the November ballot.

The current District 4 commissioner, Danny Riddick, is not seeking re-election this year. Tom Germano defeated one other candidate to win the Republican primary in August. Since there were no other candidates who qualified for the race, the Republican primary was open to all voters, and Germano is elected to the office.

The current District 2 commissioner, Kenny Thompson, is not seeking re-election this year. Jason Bennett won a four-way Republican primary in August and will now face Democrat Jenna Talleda in the general election in November. Talleda was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

CJ Thompson defeated incumbent District 4 commissioner Blake Iverson in the Republican primary in August. Since the two candidates were the only ones qualified for the race, the Republican primary was open to all voters, and as the winner of the primary, Thompson is elected to the office.

Ricky Horne defeated the incumbent District 2 commissioner, Jimmy Anderson, in the Republican primary in August. The two candidates were the only candidates in the race, and as a result, the primary was open to all voters, and Horne is now elected to the office.

The District 2 incumbent, Republican A.M. “Hupp” Huppman, defeated two challengers in the Republican primary on August 18. As they were the only candidates in the race, the primary was open to all voters, and as the winner of the primary, Huppman is re-elected.

Republican Jessica Baker is seeking re-election in Florida House District 17, which covers the portion of Mandarin that is east of Old St. Augustine Road and Hood Landing Road, as well as a large portion of the Southside south of Beach Boulevard. She’ll face Democrat Jacob Guerrero in November. Because there is only one candidate from each party in the race, it only appears on the general election ballot.

The Republican incumbent, James Uthmeier, was appointed as attorney general by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2025, after the governor named Ashley Moody to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Marco Rubio, when Rubio became President Trump’s Secretary of State. Uthmeier is now seeking a full four-year term. The only other candidate in the race is Democrat Jose Javier Rodriguez. As both are unopposed in their party primaries, this race will first appear on the ballot in November for the general election.

Republican incumbent Alexandra Compere is not seeking re-election this year, so the District 2 commission seat is an open race. One Republican and one Democrat qualified for this race, so it will not appear on the August primary ballots. Democrat Leroy Edwards and Republican Lolita Smoak will appear before voters in the November general election.

More than 4.5 million people have lost access to food assistance since Congress enacted the 2025 Republican reconciliation law, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, examined by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

The House adopted a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal, a long-shot effort to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities.

Florida Republican congressman and governor's race candidate Byron Donalds has announced legislation intended to prevent artificial intelligence data centers from increasing utility costs.

Attorney General Chris Carr has won a consent judgment that bars MV Realty from doing business in Georgia and prohibits the company from collecting any more money from state consumers, the attorney general’s office said.

A judge has temporarily ordered Tennessee not to give immigration authorities information about hundreds of sick and disabled immigrant children who are enrolled in a healthcare assistance program.

A federal judge has permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred says the San Francisco Giants failed to inform players they could opt out of wearing rainbow-themed caps during Pride Night.

Gov. Mike DeWine says he believes Ohio should abolish the death penalty.

Georgia voters will head to the polls Tuesday for the runoff elections in several key primary midterm races, including senator and governor.

Mitch McConnell is in the hospital.

A top Alaska elections official has threatened to disqualify from the August primary a U.S. Senate candidate who shares the same name and party affiliation as incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan.

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than previously expected.

President Donald Trump has been showcasing his influence in Republican primaries, recently endorsing Ken Paxton in Texas.

Republican Rep. Mike Collins and former college football coach Derek Dooley have advanced to a June 16 runoff to see who will challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff.

Democrats in Pennsylvania backed by Gov. Josh Shapiro won their primaries to shape a congressional slate in which they hope to flip the state’s four swing districts and, ultimately, capture a U.S. House majority.

Statewide & multi-county election results in Georgia's 2026 primary

Candidates for Ohio’s top elected offices will stand before voters in a statewide primary on Tuesday, although many of them are already looking ahead to the November general election.

A spokesman for Rudolph Giuliani says the ex-mayor of New York City and former Trump adviser is in critical but stable condition at a hospital.

Beyond the statewide races, many Georgia voters will face choices in local races this fall. In Glynn County, that includes races for the Glynn County Commission and the Glynn County Board of Education. Some of these races already appeared on the ballot during the May 19 primaries, with those results setting up the general election matchups.

When Georgia voters go to the polls on May 19 for the state’s primary, voters choosing a Democratic primary ballot will see two questions in addition to the various offices up for election.

When Georgia voters go to the polls on May 19 for the state’s primary, voters choosing a Republican primary ballot will see eight questions in addition to the various offices up for election.

Melania Trump has made a rare appearance on Capitol Hill to urge Congress to pass a series of bills to update a nearly 30-year-old federal foster care program.

An appellate court has ruled that Iowa can fully enforce a law restricting instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools up to sixth grade.

The criminal trial of a former congressman is offering a glimpse into the prehistory of the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The Trump administration says it will be moving U.S. Forest Service headquarters from the nation's capital to Utah as part of a broad overhaul.

President Donald Trump says a former president has told him that he now wishes he had attacked Iran when he occupied the Oval Office.

A major bill that helps address low pay for extracurricular leaders like coaches and toughens restrictions on rampant transfer issues has made it through the Legislature and will now head to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his signature to make it a law.

The push for better pay for coaches in the state and stronger guardrails for the Florida High School Athletic Association to enforce transfer restrictions passed another major hurdle on Monday afternoon.

The White House says it fired an NTSB board member for serious misconduct, and he says the claims are false.

The governor of Iowa says four soldiers from her state have been killed since December, including two killed last weekend in a drone strike during the early stages of the war with Iran.

Many political candidates pitch themselves as outsiders.

The Department of Homeland Security’s approach to naming immigrant enforcement operations elicits polarizing opinions: Are the names funny or offensive.

Elizabeth Kautz, mayor of Burnsville, Minnesota, says she carries her passport in her own city due to concerns about immigration enforcement.

Jacksonville attorney and Republican candidate for governor Paul Renner pointed to a simple but critical problem: costs have risen faster than wages while discussing affordability.

Senators from opposing parties are working together in hopes of finally banning members of Congress from trading stocks.

The Supreme Court is reviving a Republican challenge to a law allowing the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a target of President Donald Trump.

Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins says he’s running for governor in 2026, hoping to take over for term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Spencer Pratt, a reality television personality who lost his home in the deadly Palisades wildfire last year, said Wednesday that he intends to run for mayor of Los Angeles.

George Conway says he is running for a U.S. House seat in New York City.

A federal magistrate judge has refused to order the pretrial release of a man charged with planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Calling it the “Health Care Medical Freedom Act,” a House Republican on Monday filed a bill that says health-care providers could not “discriminate” against patients based on vaccination status and seeks to add disclosure requirements when children get vaccinated.

The Trump administration has announced the initial disbursement from its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program.

President Donald Trump says he will be extending invitations to next year’s Group of 20 summit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Rep. Elise Stefanik says she is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to Congress.

The U.S. military will end its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a combat zone.

Eileen Higgins has been sworn in as Miami's first female mayor, taking office two weeks after defeating a Trump-endorsed Republican.

A judge in Miami has dismissed a complaint challenging a college’s decision to gift prime downtown real estate for President Donald Trump’s future presidential library.

Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared to back a Republican-led drive, supported by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.

The Republican who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee says a video of a U_S_ military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of the initial attack shows “nothing remarkable."

A prosecutor says the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack told investigators he was “disappointed” in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

The FBI has arrested a man accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack.

Four Republican-led states have settled lawsuits with the federal government over access to voter citizenship data.

U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls says he will retire from Congress after his term ends in 2026 to focus on family.

It’s Jacksonville vs. Tallahassee, and it all plays out when the Florida Legislature convenes in January. Jacksonville’s central 2026 challenge is defending fiscal autonomy and local governance against a state administration pushing top-down fiscal reforms and broader preemption.

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan has decided not to run for Ohio governor next year.

The House Ethics Committee has announced that a panel will conduct a wide-ranging investigation into Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla.

A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and woman during home invasion robbery and later confessing to three other killings is scheduled to be put to death in December.

President Donald Trump on Monday pushed back on criticism from Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene that he is spending too much time on foreign affairs and not enough on inflation.

The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear.

Dick Cheney leaves behind a mixed legacy in his home state of Wyoming.

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings has filed papers to run for Florida governor.

Climbing monthly electricity bills, a growing stressor on U.S. families as demand surges for energy, have emerged as a significant issue in the nation’s only two elections for governor this year and as a test on the political parties’ messages for next year’s midterms.

A Senate Republican on Thursday filed a proposal that would move forward with creating a Florida Museum of Black History in St. Johns County.

Virginia will elect its first woman as governor as Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger look to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Two Florida college students and an advocacy group for retirees are asking a federal judge to let them intervene in a lawsuit to defend census methods used to protect privacy and fill in missing data.

President Donald Trump is urging his supporters in New Jersey to vote for Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli.

House Republicans are preparing to release a report about President Joe Biden's mental state and the alleged misuse of the presidential autopen during his term.

Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares and former Democratic Del.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is the primary way plaintiffs can challenge racially discriminatory election practices.

The Supreme Court appears ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that's helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century.

Should people as young as 18 years old in Florida be legally allowed to own or purchase firearms? Lawmakers in the Florida House seem to think so.

JPMorgan Chase will directly invest up to $10 billion in U.S. companies with crucial ties to national security.

The former Republican congressman, now running as a Democrat, emphasized his core values and vision for the state. “The economy should work for everybody,” Jolly said. He explained that this means the economy must support the lowest wage earners, retirees, and families trying to put food on the table.

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so.

Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanberger have faced off on the debate stage in Virginia’s high-stakes governor's race.

The Supreme Court seemed ready to revive a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump.