Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida From October 2015 to January 2016, there were almost 4,000 cases of babies born with microcephaly in Brazil. Before then, there were just 150 cases per year. The suspected culprit is a mosquito-borne virus...

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gave a speech Saturday night after hearing the news that Hillary Clinton had won the South Carolina primary, in which he encouraged Americans to stay engaged in politics. Sanders pulled out a victory against Clinton...

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz released four years of his and wife Heidi’s tax returns on Saturday, ranging from 2011-2014, showing $389,124 taxes paid on $1.2 million in 2014. Cruz’s filings follow a similar release of...

U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s political rhetoric is “racist,” and evocative of Adolf Hitler, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon told reporters at an event in Mexico City on Saturday. “This...

A Florida man went to extreme measures to avoid being identified by police, AL.com reports. Kirk Kelly, 24, was stopped by police in Tallmadge, Ohio, and in an effort to hide his identity, he chewed off the skin on his fingertips so he...

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, paid $526,092 in taxes on $2.29 million of income from 2010-2014, his campaign said on Saturday, in a move meant to pressure billionaire rival Donald Trump to release his...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won big in South Carolina’s primary on Saturday, according to projections by CNN and CBS News. Clinton won out over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in a sweeping victory. Clinton has been the projected...

Three Florida seventh graders are being criminally charged for a prank in which they put pepper flakes in a teacher’s can of soda, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The 12-year-old girls are being charged with charges relating to poisoning...

Donald Trump received a vote of confidence on Saturday from Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former leader of France’s Front National who in the past has said the Nazi occupation was not “particularly inhumane” and suggested Ebola could solve Europe’s “...

It came as a surprise to many that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie came out in support of controversial GOP front runner Donald Trump this week, but the New York Times revealed the decision may have been more personal than political. On Saturday,...

Pushing back at the internecine fighting that has broken out within the Republican Party over the 2016 GOP nomination, a Trump supporter got a bit carried away and blurted “We have gone bat shit,” live on CNN Saturday Appearing...

Coming under increasing fire over allegations that Trump University was a scam, 2016 GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump dismissed accusations of improprieties on Saturday by stating the judge overseeing the case is “hostile’...

Liberals concerned about the future of their country — and Republicans concerned about the future of their party — responded en masse to the Twitter hashtag #NeverTrump Friday night, leaving no doubt that the Republican front-runner...

Did blunt-talking Christie pull his punches with Trump during campaign? TRENTON — Hours after verbally eviscerating U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida during a Republican presidential debate Feb. 6, Gov. Chris Christie speculated on national...

Marijuana might look and smell natural, but its ecological footprint is anything but green. Pot is power hungry. Related: Tourists with pot-related problems double in Colorado emergency rooms The $3.5bn cannabis industry is one of the nation’s...