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Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson flew over the Florida Keys and toured Key West to see the damage from Hurricane Irma. The Keys felt Irma's full fury when it blew ashore as a Category 4 hurricane Sunday morning with 130 mph winds.
Floridians began a mass exodus on Thursday as Hurricane Irma, the powerful Category 5 storm, plowed through the Caribbean toward the Sunshine State. Thousands of cars headed north, causing interstate backups and slowdowns.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Florida's attorney general slammed as "sickening" Wednesday evening more than 1,500 reported incidents of price gouging with Category 5 Hurricane Irma bearing down on the state, including delivery charges of $100 for a case of water.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson today called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services "to exercise its oversight and enforcement authority" to protect more than 13,000 Florida children with special needs who were improperly removed from the state's specialized care program, known as Children's Medical Services. Nelson's request comes on the heels of recent reports that despite a Florida judge's ruling two years ago that required the state to stop using a new screening tool that declared thousands of kids ineligible for the state's specialized care program, the state of Florida has still not yet notified all of the families who were improperly removed from the program to provide them an opportunity to reenroll.
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- With the 2018 state primary election now one year away, voters in Florida give a slight edge to Sen. >Bill Nelson over current Gov. Rick Scott in a hypothetical matchup in the U.S. Senate race.
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., talks to a group of Haitian community leaders, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, in the Little Haiti area in Miami. Nelson called on the administration to extend Temporary Protected Status for the nearly 60,000 Haitians living in the U.S. until at least July, 2019.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson says lawmakers have authorized seven new medical facilities for veterans in Florida. Nelson said in a news release Wednesday that the new Veterans Affairs facilities will be located in Daytona Beach, Jacksonville, Ocala, Tampa and Lakeland, with two in Gainesville.
Just over three years ago, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (Florida) nominated me to attend the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), one of the nation's five...
Senate Commerce Committee leaders on Tuesday said safety, reducing roadblocks to innovation, and clarifying federal and state regulatory roles are among the chief goals they will follow when drafting legislation covering autonomous vehicles in coming weeks. "Self-driving vehicles will not only dramatically change how we get from place to place, they have the potential to prevent accidents and save thousands of lives," Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., who is spearheading the effort along with Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., and ranking member Bill Nelson of Florida, said in a statement.
Church bells tolled 49 times, a giant rainbow flag hung from a county government building and the names of the victims of the Pulse nightclub attack were read aloud at various ceremonies Monday as people in Orlando and beyond remembered the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. At 2:02 a.m., survivors, victims' families, club employees and local officials were gathered for a private service at the gay club at the exact time Omar Mateen opened fire a year ago and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
A recently fired worker from an awning company in Florida followed through with a plan to kill his former colleagues, singling out five and fatally shooting them in the head before taking his own life, authorities said. John Robert Neumann Jr., 45, shot and killed himself at the sound of approaching sirens Monday.
People arrive at a staging center setup by the Orange County Sheriff's Office after a deadly shooting Monday in Orlando, Florida. A man who was fired from a Florida awning factory in April returned Monday with a gun and methodically killed several people, then took his own life, authorities said.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is threatening congressional action after a string of disturbing incidents involving airlines and their passengers made national news.
The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature approved an $83 billion budget on Monday night that ignores some of Republican Gov. Rick Scott's top priorities - and provides Democrats some ammunition if Scott makes an expected challenge of Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson next year. Scott wanted $100 million for the Visit Florida tourist marketing program; legislators approved $25 million.
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz accompanied by United Airlines President Scott Kirby testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday testifying before a House Transportation Committee oversight hearing. Air travel in the United States has become a combustible mix in which passengers are not the only ones treated unfairly, senators were told yesterday.
In addition to being the day the House of Representatives passed an Obamacare repeal bill and the unofficial Star Wars day, Thursday was also National Orange Juice Day. It's a totally real thing promoted by the state's Department of Citrus, which you should not be surprised to hear is also a real thing.
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz apologizes for an incident in which a passenger was forcibly removed from a flight as he and other airline executives face tough questions from lawmakers Tuesday. "It was a mistake of epic proportions," he said.
Dubbed the Aquos R, it features some top-tier specs with a lot of hype around the display technology and included artificial intelligence. The latter is supposedly going to learn all of your usage habits, like we're all used to, but when when paired with rotating the Robocle charging dock, it can cross the line into creepy.