Rep. Alan Grayson, the self-styled ‘congressman with guts,’ has managed what seems like an impossible feat of self-restraint.

At annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner, Florida Democrats snub one of their own, but are giddy in the belief that anyone can beat Republican Gov. Rick Scott next year.

Under the new law, Gov. Rick Scott could surpass other governors in the number of ordered executions.

A key aide in Commissioner Francis Suarez’s campaign for Miami mayor resigned Friday, a day after police raided his home and seized 20 absentee ballot request forms he submitted for other voters.

Under the new law, Gov. Rick Scott could surpass other governors in the number of ordered executions.

The design for a memorial to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, more than 10 years in the planning, has so divided supporters and critics that the commission created to build it gave up trying to find a compromise and defiantly voted Wednesday to proceed, despite the bitter opposition of the Eisenhower family.

Charlotte Douglas International Airport’s status as a major airline hub is not guaranteed in the proposed American Airlines-US Airways merger, according to Senate testimony Wednesday.

The tea party is using the Internal Revenue Service scandal as a springboard to renew calls to limit or even abolish an agency it’s always disliked.

FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged Wednesday that the bureau has used unmanned aerial drones for surveillance in the United States and suggested that government needs to develop guidelines as their use grows.

The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says she opposes the force-feeding of terror suspects at the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and is pressing the Pentagon to establish a more humane treatment.

America needs to invest more in the humanities and social sciences in order to preserve its cultural identity and economic competitiveness, according to a new report on the role those subjects play in shaping the national character

President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more - and we will do more," Obama said Wednesday in Berlin.

Frederick Douglass, prominent abolitionist, writer and orator, now towers over a podium in the U.S. Capitol, a speech curled passionately in his hand.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said Wednesday she’s changed her views and now supports gay marriage, becoming the third Senate Republican to do so.

If a presidential election were held today, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would easily defeat Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Gay rights activists have launched an effort to reverse Florida’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

Gov. Rick Scott’s standing with the public has been so persistently grim that any improvement in polls looks like a breakthrough.