Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington is getting a much chillier reception on Capitol Hill than at the White House.

The Trump administration plans to limit refugee admissions in 2027 to 17,500 mostly white South Africans.

Vice President JD Vance and White House officials are announcing plans to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges.

A federal judge has refused to block the Trump administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge as part of a land swap in Texas.

The U.S. president has several meetings scheduled with world leaders during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City next week.

President Donald Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage.

Attorney General Todd Blanche is blurring traditional boundaries between politics and federal law enforcement with speeches at political events that depart from longstanding norms meant to protect the Justice Department from the appearance of partisan bias.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has embraced the prospect of his country becoming the European Union’s first associate member.

The Trump administration has denied visas for a high-level Palestinian delegation to attend an annual meeting of world leaders at the United Nations for the second year in a row.

The Trump administration has ordered caregivers for migrant children to stop reporting human trafficking concerns directly to the office created to help victims.

A close ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has pleaded guilty to bribing officials to secure contracts for importing food during Venezuela's crisis.

The U.S. has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space.

The Food and Drug Administration held a public hearing Monday on the therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs, as researchers study whether the treatment could help patients who have not responded to traditional options. In a military community like Jacksonville, that conversation hits close to home for many veterans.

Alex Saab, a close ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, is expected to plead guilty Tuesday in a federal case.

Landowners, ranchers, and business owners in Texas are suing to stop the Trump administration's border wall plans in the Big Bend region.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's plan to cut staffing at FEMA by 50% was unlawful.

The Trump administration is proposing a dramatic overhaul around the once-a-decade U.S. Census head count that could leave out millions of immigrants based on status and key racial and ethnic data, jeopardizing the allocation of resources and the country’s voting map.

The Trump administration is ordering officials in more than two dozen states to preserve records from the 2024 election.

With midterm elections approaching, President Trump is pushing to put nationwide requirements on mail-in ballots — but a wall of legal challenges and an unfinished postal system are standing in the way.

The U.S. Department of Justice has expanded its investigation into beef affordability, now targeting eight of the nation’s largest grocery retailers.

Vice President JD Vance says he wouldn't call the U.S. conflict with Iran a “war,” despite recent escalations.

The U.S. Department of Justice has expanded its investigation into beef affordability, now targeting eight of the nation’s largest grocery retailers.

The Trump administration has stalled a study that would help identify industries dumping harmful PFAS chemicals in wastewater, two former officials say.

The Trump administration has been fighting with California officials over offshore oil projects and the state's coastal commission, which works to protect the state's shores.

President Trump is taking action to bring down the price of beef at the grocery store, but Florida farmers say the plan could hurt them at a very critical time

The U.S. Justice Department has charged over 80 people in the takedown of a violent Puerto Rican gang.

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook says the Trump administration has no legal basis to remove her from the central bank’s governing board.

Florida’s cattle ranchers are criticizing President Donald Trump’s move to import 300,000 tons of tariff-free beef to lower prices for consumers.

North Korea mocked South Korea for being a US “puppet” after President Trump curtailed joint military drills between the U.S. and South Korea. And it launched a barrage of missiles toward the sea after dismissing the overture from Trump.

President Donald Trump has urged a federal judge to reject the BBC’s request for the court’s help in securing testimony and documents from three members of the president’s family in response to his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster.

The United States has carried out its first deportation under an agreement for Liberia to accept up to 1,200 people who are not from the African country.

The International Criminal Court has criticized new U.S. sanctions on its senior staff as a “flagrant attack” on its independence.

Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, according to authorities in the West African country.

The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to rescind a quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging and other development on national forest lands, drawing the ire of environmentalists nationwide.

Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to confirm that he won’t send troops to polling places during the midterm elections.

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says he'll sue the Trump administration to get his security clearance restored.

Legal aid groups are raising concerns after the Trump administration awarded a $150 million contract to a small Texas law firm with limited experience in immigration law.

Construction crews have taken apart the massive granite seal for the new White House helipad, signaling potential delays.

More than 20 states and the District of Columbia have sued the Trump administration to block it from getting wide access to the personal information of millions of recipients of a benefits program for low-income families.

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.

Leslie Dach, Executive Chair of Protect Our Care, a leading health care policy and advocacy organization, joined us on The Morning Show to discuss the Trump administration's decision to end Medicare prescription drug subsidies and the potential impact on millions of older Americans.

Trump’s tariffs are headed to court — again.

More than two dozen states have sued the Trump administration after it required them to comply with election and immigration conditions to get billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service say they have successfully launched a new government-wide payment verification process designed to prevent federal payments from being sent to dead people.

A federal judge in Boston has ruled the Trump administration can’t use an obscure clause relating to agency priorities to make funding cuts.

The United States and Iran have exchanged strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets as their battle over the Strait of Hormuz intensifies.

A former Jacksonville Marine was arrested Thursday and charged by criminal complaint with threatening President Donald Trump, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Palm Beach International Airport is getting a new name — and soon, new flight codes — following action by Florida’s governor and state legislature earlier this year.

The National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., has expanded during the country's 250th anniversary of independence celebrations, with troops from Democratic-led states joining the effort.

Palm Beach International Airport is getting a new name — and soon, new flight codes — following action by Florida’s governor and state legislature earlier this year.

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration overhaul to a public service forgiveness program for federal student loans, ruling in favor of advocates who said the program risked becoming a tool for political retribution.

The Trump administration has frozen federal funding for New York's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the Justice Department aimed at compelling New Hampshire to provide data on its voters.

Democrats in 25 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over its interpretation of new Medicaid work requirements.

A U.S. senator is warning of a Trump administration plan to remove over 500 children from the country, bypassing legal protections, in a letter sent to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday.

Michigan can keep a lid on the personal information of registered voters.

The WWE alum claims WWE cut shots of future President appearing scared of him

The Federal Reserve kept its key rate unchanged Wednesday yet nearly half the central bank’s policymakers said they could support a rate hike later this year, an unexpectedly aggressive outcome that would disappoint President Trump and suggests heightened concerns about persistent inflation.

Federal prosecutors have charged 15 people with impeding federal agents during a massive immigration surge in Minnesota earlier this year.

A Crescent City man was charged with two counts of threatening to kill President Donald Trump and “blow the White House up,” the Department of Justice said.

Ever since Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump in late January to lead the Federal Reserve, a question has lingered: Will he seek to raise interest rates to tame inflation or cut them as Trump has long demanded.

A key platform that Cubans in the U.S. use to send money and goods to relatives in Cuba has stopped operations.

Friday’s opening game in the U.S. at SoFi Stadium in California comes against the backdrop of the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, mounting political violence in President Trump’s orbit and growing fears of artificial intelligence-fueled disruptions.

Attorneys say an Iranian woman is among a group of people who have been deported to the Central African Republic from the United States.

The Justice Department has announced charges against a Guatemalan woman accused of using false identification to gain custody of migrant children.

Brazilian officials have announced a significant drop in deforestation rates.

The Trump administration is telling European nations that they need to step up their travel restrictions for people from Ebola-hit countries in Africa.

A federal judge has struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas.

Senate Republicans are weighing their next steps after the Trump administration's announcement that it is scrapping a $1.8 billion settlement fund for the president's allies who claim to have been politically prosecuted.

The Trump administration has extended protections shielding about 11,000 Lebanese from deportation, allowing them to stay and work in the U.S. for another six months and marking a rare reprieve to any of the people protected by temporary measures which have been harshly criticized by Republicans.

A key inflation gauge accelerated in April to the highest level in three years, the latest sign that spiking gas prices and higher food costs are squeezing Americans’ finances.

Renata Castro, founding member of Florida-based immigration law firm USA 4 ALL, joined News4Jax anchor Bruce Hamilton on The Morning Show.

The Democratic National Committee has released a controversial autopsy report on the 2024 election.

A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s recent caps on federal student loans, arguing the limits will make it harder for students pursuing certain healthcare degrees to attain the necessary training and education.

At the high-stakes summit between the United States and China, President Xi Jinping called a stable relationship between the two nations “good for the world” and added that the U.S. and China should be “partners, not rivals.”

ABC is accusing the Trump administration of trying to chill free speech and hinder open political discussion.

This year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and state lawmakers have passed a law designating a new “Trump Highway” in the Sunshine State.

The Justice Department has found UCLA's medical school illegally considered race in admissions.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Friday that an expanded season for Atlantic Red Snapper in Florida has been approved and will go into effect May 22.

President Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, has said he wants to bring “regime change” to the central bank, but if confirmed by the Senate he will find a Fed already transformed by the White House’s attacks.

Florida State University business analyst Wayne Hochwarter joins News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton on this week's episode of Politics & Power to discuss whether tariffs should be adjusted to shield small importers; what short‑term relief (tax credits, grants, fuel support) would help Main Street; and how state budgets should adapt to tourism and construction slowdowns.

The Federal Reserve will meet this week ahead of a looming leadership transition that remains fuzzy, and Wednesday’s news conference will be closely watched for any clarification.

The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.

U.S. officials have announced a major crackdown on Southeast Asian cyberscam operations controlled by Chinese transnational organized crime.

An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification.

The Trump administration is requiring all 50 states to explain their plans to revalidate some Medicaid providers.

The FBI and Justice Department are scrambling to rebuild a depleted workforce after a wave of departures over the last year.

The Trump administration has agreed to resume funding a key Manhattan subway project after New York officials sued.

Minnesota officials are pushing forward with investigations of federal law enforcement officers involved in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.

The U.S. is urging other nations to back a “trade over aid” initiative at the United Nations as part of the Trump administration’s broader shift away from donor-focused development assistance and toward greater private investment.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended a more than 12% proposed cut to his department's budget and dodged arrows from angry Democrats as he kicked off an expected sprint of seven hearings in Congress over the next seven days.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors.

The city of Minneapolis has released a video showing a chase and a scuffle that ended in a nonfatal shooting in January.

The Education Department says it has terminated agreements that previous administrations reached with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding rights and protections for transgender students.

President Donald Trump is holding a White House briefing room press conference on the crew member who was rescued by U.S. special forces in Iran.

Wisconsin voters will choose a new state Supreme Court justice on Tuesday in an election that will either maintain or expand the court’s liberal majority.

The Trump administration has taken a new tack in celebrating Easter.

Congo will receive some deportees from the U.S. as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country program.

The Trump administration said Friday it is rejoining two agencies that were split up in the aftermath of the 2010 Gulf oil spill.

President Trump is said to be considering removing other officials in his cabinet according to Trump administration officials.