As a town of just 1.5 square miles, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea in Broward County has a limited number of streets. However, the town with only about 6,000 permanent residents could soon have two streets named after President Donald Trump.

House Bill (HB) 33, which would designate a portion of Commercial Boulevard between West Tradewinds Avenue and Ocean Boulevard in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard,” passed the Florida House of Representatives last week and now awaits Senate approval, paving the way for another Trump-dedicated street in the area. If passed, the bill would go into effect in July 2026.

“The Department of Transportation is directed to erect suitable markers designating the transportation facilities as described in this section,” the bill reads.

At a contentious town meeting last September, the Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Town Commission approved the addition of “President Donald J. Trump Drive” to Sea Grape Drive in a 3-2 vote. Commissioner Richard DeNapoli, the item’s sponsor, claimed adding Trump’s name would be a boon for tourism.

Virginia’s highest court issued a stay Wednesday that allows early voting for the redistricting referendum to begin on Friday in Tazewell County, with less than 48 hours until the polls are slated to open for early voting.

The Virginia Supreme Court’s decision has allowed the state Department of Elections and Tazewell County to move forward with preparations for the April 21 referendum. The Department of Elections will update election officials Thursday with new information and action items, said department spokesperson Andrea Gaines.

Tazewell County had been the only locality that was set to sit out of the referendum after Circuit Judge Jack Hurley Jr. had ruled earlier in the day to maintain a previous order that barred the county from administering the election.

The state Supreme Court order has set in motion a flurry of activity in the county registrar’s office as officials attempt to make up for lost time.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”

In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.

Interspersed throughout were discussions about events promoting the Republican Party at Florida International University. The school told the Herald the chat logs are part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

The conversations included some of the campus’ top conservative leaders: the county GOP secretary, FIU’s Turning Point USA chapter president and the former College Republicans recruitment chair.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”

In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.

Interspersed throughout were discussions about events promoting the Republican Party at Florida International University. The school told the Herald the chat logs are part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

The conversations included some of the campus’ top conservative leaders: the county GOP secretary, FIU’s Turning Point USA chapter president and the former College Republicans recruitment chair.

Some Democrats aren’t ruling out voting for a multibillion-dollar military infusion, setting up a potential internal clash in the weeks ahead for a party whose political base is aghast at President Donald Trump’s aggression against Iran.

The Trump administration’s top defense and intelligence officials told lawmakers this week that the Pentagon could soon send an emergency supplemental funding request to Capitol Hill. They didn’t offer a timeline or dollar value, but the White House is reportedly mulling a $50 billion ask.

That’s a massive sum on top of the more than $990 billion Congress has shelled out for defense capabilities in recent months between the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” and the latest government funding package.

To pass any new military funding measure through the Senate, the support of at least seven Democrats will be needed to overcome the filibuster. It’s far from certain the votes are there.

“Good luck. What Democrat is going to vote to fund an illegal war?” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Wednesday. “I don't think — with the exception of one Democrat — there will be any votes for it.”

Montana Sen. Steve Daines will not seek reelection, according to three people familiar with the matter granted anonymity to speak candidly, adding to a wave of retirements in the GOP ranks.

Daines’ impending announcement will make him the sixth Republican senator to choose not to seek reelection in this fall’s midterm elections, joining a list that includes North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, who announced his decision last year, and Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who is running for governor instead of seeking a second term. Sens. Joni Ernst, Cynthia Lummis, and Mitch McConnell, a former Senate majority leader, also announced they won’t seek reelection this cycle.

March 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. military's Southern Command ​said on Tuesday ‌that Ecuadorian and U.S. forces launched ​operations against what ​it said were designated ⁠terrorist organizations ​in Ecuador.

The Southern Command, ​which is the U.S. military's combatant command ​that encompasses 31 ​countries through South and ‌Central ⁠America and the Caribbean, said that the action was ​meant ​to ⁠combat illicit drug trafficking, but ​did not ​provide ⁠more details in a statement on ⁠social ​media website ​X.