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  • Ron DeSantisPolitics

    DeSantis’ Disney district appointees say they don’t have to answer questions under oath, court documents reveal

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens to Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board chairman Martin Garcia, right, deliver remarks during a news conference at CFTOD headquarters at Walt Disney World, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Feb. 22, 2024. The shake-up of Walt Disney World’s governing district more than a year after it was taken over by Gov. DeSantis’ appointees continued Wednesday, March 13, 2024 with the departure of its board chairman who had been highly critical of Disney. Garcia’s departure as chairman is coming a week after the district’s administrator, Glen Gilzean, left to accept an appointment by DeSantis as interim elections supervisor in Orange County, the home of Orlando, at half the salary. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, file)Politics

    DeSantis-appointed chair of Walt Disney World’s governing district is leaving 3 years early in latest shakeup of board takeover

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • FILE – In this Oct. 12, 2007 file photo, a for sale sign sits among an acreage of orange trees in Bartow, Fla. More people moved to a county rich with citrus groves located between two of Florida’s most populous metros than in any other county in the U.S. last year. That’s according to estimates released Thursday, March 14, 2024 by the U.S. Census Bureau. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)Personal Finance

    Landlocked Florida county full of citrus groves was top destination for U.S. movers in 2023 as people searched for affordable home prices

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs the Parental Rights in Education bill, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, at Classical Preparatory School, March 28, 2022, in Shady Hills, Fla. Students and teachers will be able to speak freely about sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms, provided it’s not part of instruction, under a settlement reached Monday, March 11, 2024, between Florida education officials and civil rights attorneys who had challenged a state law which critics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.” (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP, File)Politics

    Florida teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender ID as long as it’s not part of instruction under DeSantis’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill settlement

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The guitar shaped hotel is seen at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, in Hollywood, Fla. The state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida will be raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from online sports betting this decade, thanks to a compact between the tribe and Gov. Ron DeSantis that gave the tribe exclusive rights to run sports wagers as well as casino gambling on its reservations. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)Finance

    DeSantis gave the Seminole Tribe exclusive rights to run online sports bettings in Florida. Now the state’s racetracks and poker rooms are fighting back

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • Glen GilzeanPolitics

    DeSantis’ Disney district boss gets a new gig: Elections supervisor in Democratic-leaning Orange County

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • Ron DeSantisPolitics

    DeSantis spikes the ball on Disney, calling his takeover ‘a win, not just for people in this region, but the state of Florida’

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • Ron DeSantisPolitics

    Disney on DeSantis legal battle: ‘Significant harm’ could come if trade secrets are made public

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • Ron DeSantisPolitics

    DeSantis tells Disney to ‘move on’ after it appeals Trump judge’s dismissal of free speech lawsuit

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • Ron DeSantisPolitics

    Disney’s suit against DeSantis just got tossed out of court

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • Ron DeSantisPolitics

    Disney accuses DeSantis’ district appointees of stonewalling document requests: ‘There is a very, very, very politically motivated board’

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • New York CityPolitics

    New York City asked the Census Bureau to double-check its count and now it’s adding 1,090 people

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a caucus night watch party in West Des Moines, Iowa, US, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. DeSantis finished second in the Iowa Republican caucuses, AP says, defying expectations of a weaker showing after polls showed the Florida governor slipping into third place ahead of the Monday night contest. Photographer: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    ‘The same values are at stake here’: Disney rips DeSantis in court filing after appeals court revives First Amendment retaliation case

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, gestures as he speaks during a campaign event at CJ Moyna and Sons Maintenance Facility in Elkader, Iowa, US, on Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. Two new super PACs allied with DeSantis booked more than $8 million in advertisements in recent weeks to boost his presidential bid, as Never Back Down, the group that has been supporting his campaign for months, pulls back ad spending amid internal turmoil. Photographer: Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Ron DeSantis, crusading against anti-Semitism, orders Florida schools to waive some deadlines and out-of-state tuition for religious persecution victims

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press
  • This photograph taken on April 25, 2023 shows Manu Bala holding her newborn daughter inside a maternity ward of a civil hospital in Dehra, in Kangra district of India’s Himachal Pradesh state. – Exhausted, elated and cradling her newborn daughter in a rundown government hospital, young mother Manu Bala had just helped make India the world’s most populous nation. The UN announced that India, already home to more than one in every six humans on the planet, would this week eclipse China with more people than any other country. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP) / To go with ‘India-Population-Women-Childbirth’, SCENE by Abhaya SRIVASTAVA (Photo by MONEY SHARMA/AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    Year-end world population will exceed 8 billion for the first time ever, marking a huge milestone for the planet

    By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press