TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — There are still a lot of questions about Governor Ron DeSantis' call for a special session in less than two weeks. The governor ordered the legislature to meet back up in ...

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A legal challenge over the firing of a court-appointed U.S. attorney is raising unresolved questions about President Trump's ...

There is no Guinness World Record for the most banging of a gavel by a local government official. But a Hinds County board of supervisors meeting last year in Mississippi was surely one for the ...

The Supreme Court has expanded President Trump’s firing power. It’s already reshaping federal agencies that regulate vast ...

When Nancy Pelosi became House speaker for the second time Thursday, her new power was symbolized by the gavel handed to her by the new minority leader. In transferring the gavel — a mallet made of ...

I certainly wasn't the the only one to notice how big John Boehner's gavel was. Even Nancy Pelosi, who became minority leader, made a quip when she handed the gavel to the newly minted speaker of the ...

On this day in 1906, Speaker Joseph Cannon shattered his gavel while attempting to restore order during an acrimonious debate that occurred while the House sat as the Committee of the Whole. The ...

As outgoing Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi officially handed over her job to John Boehner on Wednesday. In doing so, she gave him the House’s symbol of power: the Speaker’s gavel. “I now pass this ...

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Newly elected Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, surrounded by children and grandchildren of members of Congress, holds up her gavel in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007. AP Photo/Pablo ...