STATE AND LOCAL

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that the Sunshine State has an unemployment rate of 2.6% – the lowest among the top 10 largest states in the nation.

New York City saw a significant loss of residents from the start of the coronavirus pandemic, between April 2020 and July 2022, according to an estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet proposed to create a Federal Digital Platform Commission having broad powers to regulate social media and digital content platforms.

Silicon Valley Bank's former CEO, Greg Becker, gave the Senate Banking Committee his take on what led to the collapse of the institution, blaming "unprecedented" events.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal opened Tuesday's Senate hearing on regulating AI by playing audio of an AI-generated voice that sounded like him reading remarks written by ChatGPT.

President Biden called himself a "congenital optimist" and signaled an openness to some form of compromise with Republicans on raising the debt limit.

The team for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis released a new video that touts the governor signing legislation to ban the use of a central bank digital currency.

Several GOP lawmakers spoke with Fox News Digital this week about how their voters feel about the debt limit fight in Washington.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is directing his Democratic caucus to alarm constituents with the claim that a debt default could cause a massive recession and unemployment.

Fox News Digital asked Biden's Senate Democratic allies whether they'd support the president using the 14th Amendment on the U.S. debt

More than a dozen Republican state attorneys general filed a motion with a key federal energy regulator seeking to block BlackRock from pushing an ESG agenda on utility companies.

President Biden said that a meeting between congressional leaders on the debt ceiling was "productive," and said that the United States will not default.

Tuesday's meeting comes just over a week after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the U.S. could run out of money to pay its debts as soon as June 1.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill giving Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Board extensive authority over the Disney World park.

House Republicans are putting pressure on the Biden administration's oversight of digital assets in a letter to the White House's Council of Economic Advisors.

President Biden's nominee to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Ann Carlson, once praised environmental policies that aim to "raise energy prices."

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown urged young residents in the Buckeye State to take up trade jobs and insisted they “don't need a college degree."

Across the U.S., the pandemic shift to remote or hybrid work has left office buildings empty. Now, instead of tearing them down, some owners and investors are giving them "new life."

Tech billionaire Elon Musk discussed artificial intelligence, the economy, and "the future" with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Wednesday

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators will soon introduce legislation that would set a minimum legal age for children to use social media and regulate how algorithms can target kids.