Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is fending off criticism from his own base as some of the environmental and anti-vaccine activists who propelled him into politics have said they want stronger action against vaccines and pharmaceutical companies.
President Donald Trump's administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans.
President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.
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.
President Donald Trump has downplayed the influence of Laura Loomer, a right-wing provocateur known for her incendiary social media presence, in his administration’s decision-making.
The use of deepfakes to impersonate high-level officials in the U.S. presents a growing security challenge.
One year after Donald Trump's near-assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man.
The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using AI-driven technology.
A news report says hackers supporting Iran have threatened to release emails supposedly stolen from people connected to President Donald Trump.
The White House published a series of photos from inside the Situation Room on its X account as President Donald Trump authorized strikes that hit nuclear sites in Iran.
Former congressman Billy Long of Missouri has been confirmed to lead the Internal Revenue Service, an agency he once sought to abolish.
The audience at the Kennedy Center's opening-night performance of “Les Misérables” greeted President Donald Trump's arrival with a mix of cheers and boos.
Hackers tied to China's government have tried repeatedly to access the phones of prominent Americans, part of Beijing's sprawling cyberespionage efforts.
The U.S. government is investigating after elected officials, business executives and other prominent figures received messages in recent weeks from someone impersonating Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff.
Susie Wiles, President Donald J. Trump’s chief of staff, blasted a controversial and fast-tracked proposal backed by Florida regulators that would trade 600 acres of sensitive and prized public land in St. Johns County to a private developer, calling the proposed swap “outrageous” and a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” in a statement to The Tributary on Sunday.
President Donald Trump hosted the Kennedy Center’s leadership, reinforcing how much time he’s devoting to remaking one of the nation’s premier cultural centers in a larger effort to ideologically and socially overhaul the nation’s arts scene.
Albania’s main opposition leader has hired Trump-linked campaign consultants and a lobbying firm to help him in the country's May 11 parliamentary election.
U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas may enter his state’s Republican primary for a Senate seat, adding more intrigue to what is already a marquee midterm contest.
The Trump administration says it will appeal a federal court decision that ordered it to readmit Associated Press journalists to White House events on First Amendment grounds.
Laura Loomer, a right-wing personality known for her incendiary social media presence, appeared to have President Donald Trump's ear again.
President Donald Trump said that he’s fired “some” White House National Security Council officials.
From cancer research to architecture to engineering, this week we featured women who led their respective fields to recognize Women's History Month.
For a second time, the Associated Press is asking a federal judge to immediately restore its access to presidential events.
Now that House Republicans have passed an ambitious budget blueprint for President Donald Trump’s agenda, it is time for hard work.
The White House says news organizations that refuse to use President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico are telling “lies."
When the Trump administration barred Associated Press reporters from presidential events, it did so after an or-else demand that the news agency change its style from the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” in line with the president's executive order.
On Politics and Power, News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton and political analyst Mike Binder from UNF get to the bottom line of the issues around an unelected Elon Musk wielding political power despite glaring conflicts of interest.
Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are demanding answers after they say President Donald Trump gave Elon Musk's staff access to sensitive and classified government information.
The crowded scene in the Capitol Rotunda on Inauguration Day featured four of the world’s five wealthiest men, five U.S. presidents, influential sporting figures and two foreign leaders with prime seats on the dais.
As he prepares to become the nation’s first millennial vice president, JD Vance is already a budding kingmaker in Republican politics and the presumptive heir to the “Make America Great Again” movement.
Senior officials from President-elect Donald Trump’s administration have participated in a transition exercise hosted by President Joe Biden's team on responding to potential terror attacks and avian flu, among other challenges.
Less than two weeks before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump is taking some of his most audacious claims and promises of the transition period and amping them up to new levels.
President-elect Donald Trump says he won't rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
Here are eight of the biggest political stories we covered in 2024, in no particular order.
A grand jury in Washington has returned an indictment against former Congressman David Rivera for failing to register as a foreign agent of a sanctioned Venezuelan media tycoon on whose behalf the Miami Republican allegedly lobbied the Trump administration.
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has signed an agreement to allow the Justice Department to conduct background checks on his nominees and appointees after a weeks-long delay.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a required agreement with President Joe Biden’s White House to allow his transition team to coordinate with the existing federal workforce ahead of taking office on Jan. 20.
Just one week after winning the 2024 presidential election, President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team are moving quickly to fill key positions, and the pace has surprised political analysts.
Will Florida's Susie Wiles temper President-elect Donald Trump as the first female chief of staff in the White House? News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton and political analyst Rick Mullaney tackle that question and more on this week's episode of "Path to the Polls."
Susie Wiles' reward for steering Donald Trump's successful presidential campaign will be the toughest job in Washington.
Susie Wiles, President-elect Donald Trump's pick as White House chief of staff, has decades of political experience but has largely shunned the spotlight.
President-elect Donald Trump has named Susie Wiles, the manager of his victorious campaign, as his White House chief of staff.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis met with former President Donald Trump on Sunday and agreed to help his campaign as he tries to defeat President Joe Biden and return to the White House, according to multiple reports.
A local political consultant who has served with multiple Jacksonville mayors is now involved in the investigation of former President Donald Trump and his handling of classified documents.
According to ABC News sources, a classified map of an unidentified country was shown to Susie Wiles, a Jacksonville woman and longtime GOP political operative in Northeast Florida and one of former President Trump’s most trusted advisers.
Jacksonville residents have mixed responses about former President Donald Trump’s indictment.
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Florida is the key swing state in the election with more voters than any other state that could choose to re-elect President Donald Trump or send Joe Biden to the White House. While so much attention has been directed to the national conventions in August, campaign strategists say voters cant forget about the political ground game. The political advertisements are on the airwaves, and national stories are churned out daily about the presidential election. She said the ground game pivoted quickly from the traditional model of in-person contact to appropriate pandemic-era socially-distanced and virtual efforts. Its about the economy, its about the world being a safer place, its about the country being a safer place, she said.
