An independent group supporting President Barack Obama's re-election bid is running ads in Michigan chiding Republican candidate Mitt Romney for opposing the $80 billion auto industry bailout.

A Democratic state lawmaker is asking the Ohio House speaker to apologize for a joke suggesting President Barack Obama should be jailed - but Republican William Batchelder says he won't take back what he viewed as a light-hearted quip.

Rick Santorum acknowledged Wednesday that he's probably running behind Mitt Romney in Arizona, but he implored a tea party crowd not to settle for "a Johnny-come-lately to the conservative cause."

Rick Santorum is mocking Mitt Romney as a "Johnny come lately to the conservative cause."

Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Mexico and Honduras next month.

In an interview with Time Magazine, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, continues his efforts to humanize his party’s approach to illegal immigration. As he told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel two weeks ago, he doesn’t have an answer — but he believes the GOP should be talking about illegal immigrants as people motivated by a desire [...]

A Jacksonville financial-services firm, phosphate miners and the telecom industry are among the big winners on the Florida House floor today. All three interests could benefit from different tax breaks that are among the dozens of bills the House is scheduled to take up. For instance, one bill on the agenda,  HB 7069 by Rep. Dorothy Hukill, [...]

TALLAHASSEE — A school prayer bill is headed to a final vote in the Florida House, after a panel of lawmakers signed off on the measure Wednesday morning. The bill, SB 98, would permit individual school boards to adopt standards for how and when students in public schools could lead public prayer at school events, [...]

TALLAHASSEE — The House Judiciary Committee passed its version of Caylee’s Law Wednesday, a bill that would make it a third-degree felony to purposely give wrong information to law enforcement looking for a missing child who is 16-years-old or younger and that child is harmed or killed. Rep. Jose Diaz, R-Miami, said he was surprised [...]

TALLAHASSEE — There is a long story of personal ambitions, conflicting corporate-versus-populist agendas, and shifting allegiances behind the latest palace coup attempt in the Florida Senate. But the seeds for what transpired last night and into this morning — the failed attempt by Sen John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, with the backing of a handful of other [...]

By Bill Cotterell Florida Capital Bureau -- The state agency providing care for about 30,000 Floridians with developmental disabilities is implementing a new funding formula to squeeze the most service out of every tax dollar, while giving families more discretion in using their state allocations.

By Lisa Fingeroot Florida Capital Bureau -- A group of Florida school superintendents are taking a stand against proposed changes in the state's school-grading system and want a reprieve from plans they believe are more punitive than constructive.

By Lisa Fingeroot Florida Capital Bureau -- Leon County School Superintendent Jackie Pons is hoping voters will again approve a half-cent sales tax for the school system when the current sales tax ends this year.

By Bill Cotterell Florida Capital Bureau -- A Senate committee heard sad testimonials from a Tallahassee seventh-grade civics class today then unanimously approved a former school superintendent's bill to provide cyber-bullying education in Florida's public schools.

By Bill Cotterell Florida Capital Bureau -- Hundreds of public employees spread through the Capitol complex today to argue against "dangerous legislation" they believe will cost them their jobs.