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Senate Passes Trump’s Megabill: Here’s What’s In And Out
Topline The Senate approved President Donald Trump’s signature policy bill Tuesday afternoon after a record-breaking 25 hours of negotiations to win over some final Republican holdouts. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) walks toward the...
Government cuts key data used in hurricane forecasting
A property owner, who preferred not to give his name, peers into the remains of the second floor unit where he lived with his wife while renting out the other units, on Manasota Key, in Englewood, Florida, following the passage of Hurricane...
Senate Passes Trump's Budget Bill
by Mitch Maley WASHINGTON — Despite President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill being deeply unpopular with a majority of Americans, Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote Tuesday, after Republican holdout Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) caved...

Senate 'vote-a-rama' begins over Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'
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Senate Passes Megabill as Murkowski Stays Bought
Welcome to “Trump’s Beautiful Disaster,” a pop-up newsletter about the Republican tax and spending bill, one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in a generation. Sign up for the newsletter to get it in your in-box. By the thinnest of...

Senate prepares to vote as Republicans say they have shored up support for Trump’s big bill
The Senate appeared ready to vote Tuesday on President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, Republican leaders announcing they believed they had overcome dissent from their own GOP ranks and secured enough support to power past...
Senate passes Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ as Vance breaks 50-50 tie
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., rushes from the chamber to his office as he struggles with Republicans opposed to President Donald Trump’s signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. J....
Senate passes Trump's mega-bill after marathon voting session
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans hauled President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill to passage Tuesday on the narrowest of votes, pushing past opposition from Democrats and their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight...
Florida’s “Super Speeder” Law Could Land Drivers In Jail Starting July 1st
FLORIDA - A new traffic law in Florida is about to bring serious consequences for drivers who push the limits on speed, especially those going far beyond the posted limit. Beginning July 1st, anyone caught driving more than 50 miles per hour over...

Senate passes Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill as Vance breaks 50-50 tie
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans hauled President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill to passage Tuesday on the narrowest of votes, pushing past opposition from Democrats and their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight...

Senate Republicans haul Trump’s big bill to passage after a turbulent all-night session
By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MATT BROWN WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans hauled President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill to passage Tuesday on the narrowest of votes, pushing past opposition from Democrats and...

Florida Budget Signed, Includes Ongoing Incentives to Racing Industry
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law Monday a budget package that includes a continuation to, and in certain ways a redistribution of, the incentives and promotions that lawmakers have funnelled towards the state racing and breeding...

Senate passes Trump tax bill as Vance breaks 50-50 tie. Follow live updates.
pinned What to know about the Big Beautiful Bill Act: The bill is a sprawling collection of GOP priorities: Tax breaks, spending cuts and new money for national defense and deportations are among the top concerns for Republicans. Democrats worry...

Florida Board: Son Forged Engineer Father's Signature Hundreds of Times
Enrique Fernandez Jr. took a shortcut to becoming an engineer, according to the Florida Board of Professional Engineers. Instead of going to college and studying engineering, he appropriated his dead father’s Florida engineering credentials and...

Trump And DeSantis Inaugurate 'Alligator Alcatraz' Immigrant Detention Center Deep In Florida Everglades
Florida opened its newly minted state-run immigrant detention camp deep in the Everglades, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz." President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis were on hand to inaugurate the facility on Tuesday in an apparent...

Florida’s Proposed Bear Hunt Pits Science Versus Emotion
Florida’s black bear population has risen from a few hundred animals in the 1970s to more than 4,000 ... More today.MYFWC After years of bear population increases and growing numbers of human-bear conflicts, the Florida Fish and Wildlife...

‘Cops in the form of alligators’: Trump visits Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz
United States President Donald Trump has travelled to the southern tip of Florida to inaugurate a new immigration detention facility, nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz. On Tuesday, Trump joined Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Homeland Security...
Trump Visits "Alligator Alcatraz" ICE Detention Center in Florida Everglades
Staff Report MIAMI-DADE — On Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for a tour of the new ICE detention center that was assembled in just eight days on an airstrip in south...
President Trump, Gov. DeSantis Inspect Florida Everglades Detention Center Nicknamed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Remote facility located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport President Donald Trump toured a newly built immigration detention center deep in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday, accompanied by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and...

Florida bans geoengineering with new law targeting cloud seeding
West Palm Beach, FLA. (WPEC) — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 56 into law on June 20, imposing penalties of up to five years in prison and $100,000 in fines for anyone attempting geoengineering or weather modification, including...