Miami Voice filed proposed wording for a Miami-Dade charter amendment to impose term limits on county commissioners. Separately, two commissioners said they plan to bring forth the same proposal.

Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide contraceptive coverage for their employees as an "unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country."

Democratic and independent voters have diluted GOP voting clout in 3 Miami congressional districts held by Republicans.

When basketball coach Cleve Roberts took a Miami Norland team to play at Miami Jackson Senior High a few years ago, they encountered a new $70 million facility with shiny glass and fresh paint.

A pair of proposals would dramatically change the structure of high school sports in Florida.

Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smartphones, hard drives and networking equipment were secreted into Cuba. The most sensitive item, according to official trip reports, was the last one: a specialized mobile phone chip that experts say is often used by the Pentagon and the CIA to make satellite signals virtually impossible to track.

President Barack Obama's chief of staff says it's only a matter of time before the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad collapses.

Rick Santorum says he expects to do well in the next GOP presidential contests and will be in a two-man race with Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney takes a hard line against congressional earmarks, but the GOP presidential front-runner had a more favorable view of federal pork-barrel spending when he was governor of Massachusetts.

From the start, it's been a roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.

The dustup over contraception underscored President Barack Obama's political edge in working to attract independent voters without alienating his Democratic base. His Republican rivals are forced to keep emphasizing their conservative credentials to attract the right-leaning activists who dominate the nominating contests.

Rick Santorum is pursuing an aggressive strategy to challenge Mitt Romney in the state where the GOP presidential front-runner grew up.

Democratic and independent voters have diluted GOP voting clout in 3 Miami congressional districts held by Republicans.

Mitt Romney narrowly won Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign with a much-needed boost after three straight losses earlier this week. But the former Massachusetts governor won just a plurality of the Maine vote, suggesting he still has work to do to unite GOP voters behind his candidacy.