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Some Florida lawmakers want manatees back on the endangered species list.

Despite widespread traffic jams that choked Florida's highways, state officials are defending the approach used during Hurricane Irma.

In the course of a relatively brief negotiating session at the White House, Trump largely sided with Democratic leaders as they pushed for the three-month deal.

Legislation to enact Florida's medical marijuana constitutional amendment is headed to the desk of Gov. Rick Scott. The Senate and House approved the...

The new collection of nearly 100 poems does what its title says — a CD included with the book features many of the 73 authors reading their work.

The rate of home foreclosure is now three times its historic rate — "so large that it threatens the entire economy." Congressional Oversight Panel chair Elizabeth Warren discusses the problem — and possible solutions.

Listen to author, investigative journalist and research director of US Right to Know Carey Gillam talk about capitalism, greed, the prioritization of profits over public health, and the long term, multi-generational impacts of chemicals and pesticides, and what you can do.

The U.S. Senate has taken the first step towards allowing oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By a vote of 51-49, opponents were defeated in an effort to remove drilling from the Senate budget resolution.

Two other people were wounded in the shooting, and a suspect has been taken into custody, police in Bolingbrook, Ill., said.

Forty years ago, Congress decided that existing anti-discrimination laws were not enough to overcome racism in the voting process. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The law helped to tumble the segregationist status quo that kept black voters from the polls.