Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.
Gov. Rick Scott’s approval rating is inching higher, according to the latest poll.
Florida voters — not state lawmakers — should decide whether Las Vegas-style casinos should be allowed to operate in the state, a new poll shows.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Sunday his daughter Bella remains in the hospital with pneumonia but is recovering after a rough 36 hours.
Looks can be deceiving in Florida's feisty Republican presidential primary.
Normally the grand opening of an eyeglass store at a suburban mall on Kendall Drive would not be so very grand.
A last-minute critique of the Legislature’s redistricting maps from the Fair District proponents prompts a fiery response from lawmakers but doesn’t change their direction
Members of a gay Republican group say they get their greatest criticism from other gays.
Last year, Florida lawmakers imposed an ultrasound requirement. This year new restrictions appear to be on track.
Most of the folks strolling, trotting and biking on the marina walk bordering Miami’s City Hall on a sunny Saturday morning — the last day for early voting in the Republican primary — clearly didn’t feel the yoke of weighty political choices. Every now and then, however, someone climbed the steps into a rear City Hall door to cast a ballot.
State lawmakers will consider giving construction dollars to charter schools.
Enrique López Oliva remembers the days when Cuban Catholics hung their religious icons in their grandmother’s rooms, hoping that Fidel Castro’s communist government would not dare punish an “abuelita.”
Incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson leads Rep. Connie Mack, the leading candidate among GOP Senate hopefuls in the U.S. Senate primary.
Newt Gingrich’s older daughter, Kathy G. Lubbers, has become an indispensable political advisor.
In Florida’s Republican primary, Mitt Romney’s lead looks insurmountable — and he beats President Barack Obama in a head-to-head race, poll shows.
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich spoke about immigration to Hispanic voters in Miami, but neither roused the crowds like Sen. Marco Rubio.
To paraphrase Jackie Gleason’s legendary TV character Ralph Kramden, “To the moon, Newt!”
The pitch from the Republican presidential contenders to voters sounds a lot like the children's game of follow the leader.
President Barack Obama is pressing his case for changes in how the Senate does business, hoping to ease the partisan gridlock, and he wants to bar lawmakers from profiting from their service.
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