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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is expanding its group of targeted seats for the 2026 midterm elections.

The bipartisan task force approved an unreleased report on their findings that recommended changes for the Secret Service.

‘Joaquin’s First School Shooting’ borrows the aesthetics and language of children’s book, but its contents are purposely chilling. Patricia Oliver, whose son Joaquin was 17 when he died in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, tells Clémence Michallon how lawmakers are responding to the book

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — When Congressman Carlos Gimenez endorsed former President Donald Trump this week for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, it gave him the support of 11 of Florida’s 20 Republican representatives.

Trump sees DeSantis as his only threat for the nomination.

Florida voters will select nominees Tuesday in House primaries that have taken on new importance under a congressional map that drastically reduced the competitiveness of the state’s House races and turbocharged Republicans’ advantage in the midterms.

A dearth of seats that will be very competitive in November makes the primaries in many Florida House districts the most important elections.

TAMPA, Fla. — On the eve of Tuesday’s primary elections, the issues and storylines dominating Florida politics show how much can change in two years.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday named conservative Rep. Cord Byrd, a Neptune Beach Republican, as Florida’s new secretary of state, overseeing the state’s elections office.