Florida’s newest senator has officially been sworn into office. Vice President J.D. Vance swore in the former Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody as a new senator this week. The Senate seat was filled as Rubio was confirmed to be President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State.

Former Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody was sworn in as Florida’s junior U.S. senator on Tuesday afternoon, becoming only the second woman to represent Florida in that legislative body and the first from the Tampa Bay area.

The Florida attorney general has been a faithful foot soldier to Governor Ron DeSantis — and President-elect Donald Trump.

Republican Ashley Moody has been sworn in as Florida’s junior U.S. Senator. She took office a day after former U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s confirmation as Secretary of State. Vice President JD Vance administered the oath of office to Moody and new Ohio U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, who fills the seat just vacated by Vance.

Former U.S. senator from Florida Marco Rubio jumps into new role as secretary of state with flurry of phone calls, planned trip to Panama.

U.S. Senator Ashley Moody (R-FL), one of the newest members of the Senate, has secured influential committee assignments that will position her to advance President Donald Trump’s nominees and legislative priorities.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to instruct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

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Marco Rubio has been sworn in to be Donald Trump's new secretary of state, and another familiar Florida name has joined the Senate in his place.

Marco Rubio expressed his concerns with China's "coercive actions against Taiwan in the South China Sea" during his first call as President Donald Trump's Secretary of State with the country's ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Chinese Foreign Minister and Director of the CCP Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi that the Trump administration will put the "American people first ...

During the brief weekend standoff between the U.S. and Colombia over deportation flights ordered by the Trump administration, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was seen in a video handling paperwork ...