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President Donald Trump on Thursday made a big announcement about an upcoming global event and who he picked to help lead it.

He posted the following on his Truth Social platform: "Today, I am announcing the United States’ intention to bid for the World Expo 2035. The Great State of Florida has expressed strong interest in hosting the Expo in Miami, which I fully support. Miami Expo 2035 can be the next big milestone in our new Golden Age of America."

Trump shared the news just a day after meeting with world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and having major pushback to his demands to seize Greenland and invoke tariffs on European allies in retaliation to their objections — then announcing he had sought a new deal over the Arctic nation. ...

Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins' (D) surprise blowout win in Miami, Florida's mayoral runoff race this week is a "wakeup call for President Donald Trump," according to the Washington Post editorial board.

The Post wrote Thursday that Higgins' victory — in which she won 59 percent of the vote while Republican Emilio T. González won 41 percent — came despite Miami electing Republican mayors for decades and Florida surging further rightward in recent elections. In 2024, Trump himself was the first Republican presidential candidate to win Miami-Dade County in nearly 40 years, and came within a point of winning Miami itself last year.

"It’s a huge deal in Miami because Cuban Republicans have dominated local politics for a generation. A Democrat hasn’t been elected mayor since 1997, and his victory was invalidated the next year because of ballot fraud," the Post wrote, noting that Trump's unpopular policies effectively doomed González....

Democrats were energized Wednesday after a surprising election sweep in deep-red state Georgia.

Democrat Eric Gisler won in a special election in Georgia to represent Georgia State House of Representatives District 121, flipping a seat in a district that President Donald Trump won by double digits last year. The vacancy arose after Republican State Rep. Marcus Wiedower resigned in late October to focus on his role at a real estate company.

Greg Bluestein, chief political reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, wrote this on X: ...

Republicans have started to sense a potential loss in Miami, where a Democrat and a Republican backed by President Donald Trump will face off next week.

The Dec. 9 runoff between former County Commissioner and Democrat Eileen Higgins against former Miami City Manager and Republican Emilio Gonzalez has Republicans worried, Politico reported Thursday.

"The GOP is bracing for a possible loss in one of the state’s remaining blue areas — but in an office Republicans have held for nearly 30 years," according to the outlet. "It would come as a blow in a state President Donald Trump calls home, and in a city where he plans to build his future presidential library." ...

Miami (AFP) - Florida's Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for a ban on abortion after just six weeks of pregnancy, even as it allowed an abortion rights amendment to be on the ballot in November. The pair of decisions threw into sharp relief the bitter fight over reproductive rights, an issue that Democrats are championing in an election year. Abortion is currently allowed in the southern state at up to 15 weeks of pregnancy but a Republican-backed law slashes that to six weeks, before many women even know they are pregnant. The conservative-dominated state supreme court was considering bo......

MIAMI -- Pamela Rauseo is stuck in gridlock on the Dolphin Expressway, a crying baby in the backseat. She’s on the phone with her husband and also listening to the radio about the crisis in Venezuela. The baby’s wails are deafening. And then, suddenly, silence from the backseat. Rauseo pulls the car partially onto the shoulder and jumps into the backseat. Her 5-month old nephew Sebastian is still, his face blue. She tries calling 911, but her fingers won’t move. So Rauseo rushes into the bumper-to-bumper traffic, cradling her nephew, shouting for help. — “I felt like I got hit in the gut with ......