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Floridians are early voting in record numbers but the state remains deeply divided between presidential candidates.

The study is based on some assumptions under different scenarios. It suggests that if 95% of Americans wore masks in public it could drastically reduce the amount of COVID-19 deaths by February.

President Donald Trump is among those who have been treated with remdesivir, and FDA-approval could widen access to more patients.

The drug, which has been named Veklury, works by inhibiting a substance the coronavirus uses to make copies of itself. A large U.S. study found that the antiviral cut the recovery time by five days.

The final debate showed candidates far apart on issues like health care, climate change and criminal justice. Trump tried to focus on alleged corruption, but the pandemic remains 2020's central issue.

Supervisors of elections, legal analysts and voting-rights organizations are holding news conferences, urging journalists to assure voters that processes are in place for a smooth election, even if the results might not be known on Election Day.

“And I hear people say, 'Oh, well, you know, you shouldn’t have Thanksgiving this year.’ … And I'm just thinking to myself, you know, shouldn’t individuals be in the position to be able to make those determinations?" Gov. Ron DeSantis said.

Pence will be at Lakeland International Airport at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

President Trump is headed to Florida where he remains popular — one poll shows him up more than 28 percentage points in the state's northwest region. But Democrats are hoping to sway some voters.

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the market share of overseas travelers to Florida was decreasing. Visit Florida's Staci Mellman says the drop started in 2015.

The move to place deputies at all five early voting locations in Pinellas County was prompted by complaints of potential voter intimidation.

Dirty tricks and disinformation have been used to intimidate and mislead voters in the past. But they have been especially pervasive this year amid a chaotic and contentious election.

COVID-19 cases are surging across the country and with Thanksgiving right around the corner, is it safe to travel to spend the holiday with friends and family? We have tips from the experts.

The 83,000 surpasses the previous record from mid-July by about 6,000. In addition, 943 people died from COVID-19 on Friday. Cases of the virus have been rising in the U.S. since mid-September.

The system has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and is nearly stationary, but expected to reorganize and move to the north-northwest later Sunday.

There were 490 new positive COVID-19 tests reported in the greater Tampa Bay region Sunday, as well as no deaths — the first day with no deaths recorded in the area since Sept. 28.

Panelists at a virtual meeting Friday discussed Amendment 2, which would raise Florida’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026.

Pinellas County has mailed out more early ballots than ever before for this election day. But its early voting numbers trailed other area counties — and it may be because it has only five such sites in the entire county.

Tropical Storm Zeta formed early Sunday morning in the northwestern Caribbean, 400 miles to the south-southeast of western Cuba. While it is too soon to...

Zeta could be the eighth tropical storm or hurricane to make landfall on the U.S. Gulf coast this season.

A new poll shows Jewish voters in Florida favor Democratic Presidential Candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden over President Donald Trump.

The president's campaign now realizes it was not white evangelicals who got Trump elected in 2016 but conservative Catholics.

Shevaun Harris was the agency's lead negotiator on a statewide contracting process for Medicaid managed-care plans. She fills in for Mary Mayhew, who left the post Oct. 2.

The game at an unidentified Tampa Bay location resulted in 15 coronavirus cases. In a report, the CDC noted that the indoor space and close contact increased the potential for infection.