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Decisions to delay evacuation or shelter in place large numbers of nursing home residents during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma may have led to several deaths, an attorney says. However, other seniors who were evacuated died during or shortly after evacuation. This leaves managers of nursing homes in a quandary over what to do about residents in their care during natural disasters.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) will join Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) for a luncheon and fundraising effort next month to help him in his reelection bid in the Sunshine State.

Conservatives and economic nationalist leaders are looking past the current dysfunction in Washington to a group of new and exciting young candidates throwing their hats in the ring nationwide to break the gridlock with midterm election victories.

According to a report from Naples Daily News’ Maria Perez, illegal immigrants will not be excluded from receiving Hurricane Irma aid. Perez explained that as her interpretation of Scott’s answer to a question as to whether “assistance would be provided to

President Donald Trump warned Americans living in the path of Hurricane Irma to prepare for the historic storm.

Rep Ron DeSantis (R-FL) joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about Florida’s efforts to prepare for Hurricane Irma. He warned that Irma remains a “very powerful storm,” even though it slipped from Category 5 down to Category 4 as it approached the Florida coast.

The “Hurricane Gun Law” signed by Gov. Rick Scott (R) is 2015 is taking center stage as Floridians prepare to flee the path of Hurricane Irma.

Gov. Rick Scott (FL) has suggested that any business within the state of Florida dealing with the Venezuelan government should have their license revoked as the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, ramps up repression against his people.

Judge Hirsch ruled against Florida’s expanded stand your ground law, declaring that authority to expand it lies with “courts” not legislators.

Vice President Mike Pence took the case for the Republican House Leadership’s American Health Care Act to the people again on Saturday.

President Donald Trump promised a large crowd of American governors that he would work to redirect power from the federal government to the states.

Friday at a press conference addressing a shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale International Airport that resulted in at least five dead and six injured, Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) said his heart when out to the families and individuals impacted by

Visit Florida CEO Will Seccombe announced his resignation Friday from the state’s tourism agency after revelations that the group paid pop superstar Pitbull $1 million to promote tourism in Florida.

In a surprising move late Sunday night, United States district judge in Florida, Mark Walker, a President Obama nominee, ruled that the state must provide a method for voters to fix signature problems on mail-in ballots before the election.

“I’m not going to extend it,” Scott stated. “Everybody has had a lot of time to register. On top of that, we have lots of opportunities to vote: early voting, absentee voting, Election Day. So I don’t intend to make any changes.”

Robby Mook, the campaign manager for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, demanded that Florida officials extend the state’s voter registration deadline past Tuesday due to disruptions caused by Hurricane Matthew.

Leaving more than 100 dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew steamed toward heavily populated Florida with terrifying winds of 140 mph Thursday, and 2 million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland.

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — Florida’s first hurricane in 11 years has left the Big Bend region without power and cellular service in the aftermath of the category 1 storm.

Hurricane Hermine, now a tropical storm, left one person dead in its wake and more than 250,000 electrical customers without power.

As northern Florida confronts the heavy winds and rains of Hurricane Hermine, biology experts warn that the storm may aid the spread of the Zika virus, now confirmed to be present in mosquitos in the state.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, warned this week that his agency is running out of money to keep the Zika virus at bay and that a lack of funding could lead to growing numbers of mosquito nests and a high rate of infection.

Medical experts tracking the spread of the Zika virus throughout the continental United States warn that the conditions for rapid mosquito reproduction necessary for an outbreak exist throughout the Gulf Coast states and stretch as far north as Maryland.

An Ohio battleground poll shows Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton in a dead heat, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott—a Trump supporter, whose Super PAC conducted the poll—tells Breitbart News exclusively that this is proof independents want change.

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “On the Record,” Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL), a supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, discussed the allegations surrounding the Clinton Foundation and a possible pay-to-play situation involving Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton while she

Five cases of local Zika transmission have been reported in Miami Beach, widening the area of Zika exposure after a week of hopeful speculation that the outbreak had been contained.

Three more cases of Zika virus transmission have been reported from the outbreak area in northern Miami, making a total of 25 cases reported to date.

With Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control rapidly losing the battle to contain the epidemic from the Zika-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, panicking authorities began aerial spraying and may soon bring in bats that can eat 1,000 mosquitoes an hour.

Grammy-winning reggae star Beenie Man says he was forced to drop out of a scheduled performance Saturday night at Toronto’s annual OVO Fest when the Canadian government denied his visa request after he contracted the Zika virus.

The Zika virus has conclusively arrived on American shores, as Florida officials announced the first confirmed cases of mosquito-transmitted infections on Friday.

Asked about Ted Cruz’s speech last night at the Republican National Convention, Florida Gov. Rick Scott told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon, “There’s two people who are going to be on the ballot – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. So if you’re not supporting Donald Trump, then you’re supporting Hillary Clinton. It’s time to unify the party. It’s time to make sure we win in November. I don’t want four more years of Barack Obama’s policies.”

CLEVELAND, OH — Wednesday at the Republican National Convention, Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) kicked off the event’s third night with a message touting GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and criticizing presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on how each would

During a visit to Orlando on Tuesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch promised that the Justice Department is “making $1 million in emergency funding available to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement,” even as Florida Governor Rick Scott’s request for $5 million in FEMA disaster relief was denied.

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) discussed Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s decision to redact the Orlando shooter’s references to the Islamic State in transcripts of his 911 calls the night of the massacre. Scott panned the

It is time to destroy ISIS, not the Second Amendment, Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) said Friday when he was asked about President Barack Obama’s renewed demands for more gun control.

During an interview with Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) on Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” CNN Justice Correspondent Pamela Brown said that “ISIS, terrorism could be to blame” for the terrorist attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida before asking Scott

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “American Newsroom,” while discussing the gun control measures being proposed in the wake of the Orlando terror mass shooting, Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) said, he is disgusted with President Barack Obama ‘s lack of focus on