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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Sunday he will not vote in favor of his party’s $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package, which needs the support of all 50 Democratic senators to pass.

Seven nursing homes in Louisiana have been ordered shuttered by the state Department of Health, according to a series of Twitter messages that the department posted Saturday night.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Friday that she is "cautiously optimistic" about energy provider Entergy's plan to restore power to all of the city by next Wednesday.

President Joe Biden toured parts of Louisiana ravaged by Hurricane Ida on Friday, using the disaster to tout his Build Back Better spending plan as an effective way to mitigate hurricane damage in the future.

Florida is set to start fining businesses, government entities and schools $5,000 for asking customers or visitors to show proof they have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Kodak's apology to China's government and its removal of an Instagram post showing the situation in Xinjiang had U.S. Sen. Rick Scott "deeply concerned,” the Florida Republican said Wednesday.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves explained the issues his state is facing in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, stressing that it has been a “a challenging time.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the Biden administration is monitoring potential fuel shortages in the states most impacted by Hurricane Ida, saying it was open to issuing a Jones Act waiver that would lift certain fuel restrictions.

The administrative office of 911 for Louisiana on Sunday reported a temporary 911 outage hours before Hurricane Ida reached landfall.

Some 175 artifacts and mementos from the Prohibition Era, including his favorite guns, vintage prints featuring the infamous crime lord with various members of his family, letters written by Capone to his son while at Alcatraz Island Federal Penitentiary.

Florida small business owner Lea Orchard says she is still reeling from the financial repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s not the economic shutdown that has had a lasting effect on her business.

Tunnels To Towers Foundation CEO Frank Siller condemned the Biden administration for how it is orchestrating the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, lamenting the crisis gripping the country as Westerners are now trapped behind Taliban checkpoints, while Afghans who helped the U.S. are being hunted by the militants.

The daughter of the former mayor of Broward County, Florida, is accused of defrauding the federal COVID-19 relief program, according to a report.

Some Florida officials are worried about their families' safety.

Amid a steep surge in COVID cases due to the delta variant, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made it clear that the state Board of Education would impose financial penalties on superintendents or school board members who enforced mask mandates in school, even withholding their salaries.

A U.S. appeals court reversed its decision and let stand a lower court order prohibiting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from enforcing coronavirus restrictions on Florida cruise ships.

Georgia's lieutenant governor announced a new plan to combat crime in the state as violence continues to rise in the state and across America.

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday put out a warning to Ben & Jerry’s, and their parent company Unilver, over a decision to boycott the West Bank.

"Given that SpaceX and Blue Origin employees have sophisticated high-tech skills with presumably high income, the impacted small community real estate market will clearly benefit," NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun told FOX Business.

Months after selling their grand Connecticut estate for $45 million, fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger and his wife Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger have snapped up a Palm Beach mansion for $46.25 million, according to three people familiar with the situation.