Shell Club member Cindy Wesolowski presented a variety of shells from the Horse Conch, Olive Shell, Lightning Whelk, Shark ...

The Marco Island Beautification Advisory Committee recently announced the return of Marco in Bloom, a landscaping contest ...

China’s top diplomat held his first phone conversation with the new US secretary of state on Friday, days after Donald Trump’s return to the White House brought more uncertainty to relations ...

The day after Donald Trump was sworn in as America's 47th president, former U.S. senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, was sworn in as the 72nd secretary of state. Rubio was the first of Trump's ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s order to pause nearly all foreign aid has halted funding to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), an African HIV-prevention program launched ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen all applications for passports with “X” gender markers, an option available to people who don’t identify as male or female that was started in the ...

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The process of their job seems to have Marco Island City Council members in turmoil and unable to come to an agreement on a seventh council member or a chairman. For a second time in two weeks ...

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Newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio notified US diplomats Tuesday that the State Department will no longer promote programs that “open the door to censorship.” The departure from ...

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