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Associated PressJune 21, 2017

Iowa independents who helped Donald Trump win the presidency see last year’s tough-talking candidate as a thin-skinned chief executive and wish he’d show more grace. Unaffiliated voters make up the largest percentage of the electorate in the Midwest state that backed Trump in 2016, after lifting Democrat Barack Obama to the White House in party […]

Associated PressJune 21, 2017

Sometimes all you can do is surrender to Twitter. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio probably started out his day Tuesday thinking about paid family leave, child care tax credits and other deep issues. But when Twitter went wild over an awkward photo of him leaning in for a hug with Ivanka Trump when she arrived for […]

Associated PressJune 20, 2017

One of the men accused of killing a Florida State University law professor is heading to trial. WCTV reports a judge on Tuesday set a January trial date for Sigfredo Garcia, who authorities say gunned down Daniel Markel in his garage nearly three years ago. Three people were charged with killing the law professor and […]

Associated PressJune 20, 2017

Cuba’s foreign minister has rejected President Donald Trump‘s new policy toward the island, saying “we will never negotiate under pressure or under threat” and refusing to return U.S. fugitives who have received asylum in Cuba. In a hard-edged response to the policy announced Friday, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said from Vienna Monday that Trump’s restrictions […]

Associated PressJune 19, 2017

Florida’s governor says there are “a lot of business people upset” in Connecticut and he’s hoping to persuade them to move to the Sunshine State. Republican Gov. Rick Scott met Monday with community and business leaders in Norwalk. He made a similar trip in 2015 to lure Connecticut business to Florida as part of an […]

Associated PressJune 18, 2017

President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’s “cancelling” his predecessor’s policy toward Cuba is a good deal less than meets the ear. Trump’s move, announced Friday in Miami, actually leaves in place most of the important elements of President Barack Obama’s moves to open relations with the island. And while his policy has the stated aim […]

Associated PressJune 14, 2017

Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders says the man authorities identified as opening fire on the Republican congressional baseball practice had apparently volunteered on his presidential campaign. Sanders, of Vermont, says in a statement: “I am sickened by this despicable act.” He says that “violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and I condemn this […]

Associated PressJune 14, 2017

A top House Republican, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, was shot Wednesday at a congressional baseball practice just outside of Washington, officials said. Several other people were also believed to have been hit, according to a lawmaker who witnessed the shooting. Scalise, the House majority whip, was in stable condition at George Washington University Hospital, according […]

Associated PressJune 14, 2017

Democratic lawmakers are suing President Donald Trump over foreign money flowing into his global business empire. Almost 200 senators and representatives are plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging Trump is violating the so-called emoluments clause of the Constitution. It’s being filed early Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the lawmakers said. Among […]

Associated PressJune 13, 2017

Cuba’s best friends in the U.S. used to be a smattering of Washington policy wonks and leftists who sent donated school buses and computers to the communist-led island. Five months into the Trump administration, Cuba has a new set of American defenders: a coalition of high-tech firms, farming interests, travel companies and young Cuban-Americans thrown […]

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Jacksonville developer Patrick Zalupski leads a group to buy the Rays, aiming for a new Tampa stadium.

Donald Trump returning to Iowa, where he may find remorseful independent voters

Capitol Hill buzz: Marco Rubio joke-investigates Ivanka Trump hug

Trial date set in murder-for-hire case of law professor

Cuba rejects new U.S. policy, saying pressure will not work

Rick Scott tries to lure ‘upset’ Connecticut firms

Fact check: Donald Trump keeps much of Barack Obama’s Cuba policy

Bernie Sanders says man ID’d as shooter was on campaign

Top House GOP leader shot at congressional baseball practice

Congressional Democrats — incl. 9 from Fla. — sue Donald Trump over foreign payments

Cuba hardliners, U.S. defenders battle over new Donald Trump policy