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Mickey, Minnie and cast members join Walt Disney World executives in a ceremony marking the official opening of Tron Lightcycle / Run at the Magic Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on Monday, April 3, 2023. The roller coaster opens to guests on Tuesday. From left are Mickey Mouse; Ali Manion, Walt Disney World ambassador; Perry Crawley, Magic Kingdom operations general manager; Melissa Valiquette, vice president of Magic Kingdom; Jason Kirk, senior vice president of operations for Walt Disney World, Minnie Mouse. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis strikes back at Disney World with new legislation that would kill some of its special privileges

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

Cinderella Castle stands at the Magic Kingdom, at Walt Disney World, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Monday, April 3, 2023. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Gov. Ron Desantis’ hand-picked board tries a new way to wrestle power away from Disney World

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

New Delhi, India

When will India have a bigger population than China? Maybe while you’re reading this.

By Mike Schneider, Sibi Arasu, and others

Ron DeSantis

A group called Moms for Liberty just got a Florida school to censor a graphic novel about Anne Frank and the Holocaust

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

FILE – Lindsay Garfield, finance director at SquareFoot which helps companies find office space, works from home in New York on March 11, 2020. According to survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau, people working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

The pandemic made remote workers younger and more diverse

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 12: Robert Iger, Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company, attends the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

Disney CEO Bob Iger slams Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and says his retaliatory policies aren’t just ‘anti-business but anti-Florida’

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

FILE – Light falls on the New York skyline during sunset, Nov. 20, 2022, in New York. In 2022, the county that encompasses Manhattan grew by more than 17,000 residents after losing almost 111,000 people in the previous year during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to population estimates released Thursday, March 30, 2023, by the U.S. Census Bureau. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Manhattan’s population grows as big U.S. cities claw back people after COVID pandemic outflows

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

FILE – People visit the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., April 18, 2022. The first meeting of the new board of Walt Disney World’s government — overhauled by sweeping legislation signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as an apparent punishment for Disney publicly challenging Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill — dealt with the rote affairs any other municipal government handles. Board members on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, faced calls for better firefighter equipment, lessons on public records requests and bond ratings. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Disney’s Ron DeSantis-appointed government board just met and hinted at getting rid of COVID restrictions at the Magic Kingdom

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

The Miami Palmetto Senior High School Lady Panthers huddle before the start of their basketball game against the Miami Senior High School Lady Stings at Miami Senior High School on Feb. 3, 2023, in Miami. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Florida will no longer ask students ‘humiliating’ and ‘invasive’ menstrual questions to participate in school sports

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

Girls in Florida may not have to disclose their menstrual histories to play high school sports after all

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

People visit the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Disney has had unprecedented power over the Magic Kingdom for decades and Ron DeSantis is about to take it from them

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

FILE – People visit Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on April 18, 2022. Union members voted down a contract proposal covering tens of thousands of Walt Disney World service workers, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, saying it didn’t go far enough toward helping employees face cost-of-living hikes in housing and other expenses in central Florida. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

‘We can’t pay our bills with magic’: Disney World unions reject contract proposal

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

Californians

Do you really live in an ‘urban’ area? The government just pushed 3.5 million Americans into the ‘rural’ category.’

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

FILE – In this aerial photo made in a flight provided by mediccorps.org, damage from Hurricane Ian is seen on the causeway leading to Sanibel Island from Fort Myers, Fla., Sept. 30, 2022. The causeway has reopened with temporary repairs. Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022 the three-mile (4.8-kilometer) causeway suffered severe damage from the Category 4 hurricane, with initial predictions that repairs could take months. Instead, the work took just three weeks. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Hurricane Ian’s massive damage sparks battle over tens of millions in cleanup and repair payments

By Mike Schneider and The Associated Press

KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES – 2022/04/14: Governor Ron DeSantis signs Floridaâs 15-week abortion ban into law at Nacion de Fe church in Kissimmee. The law, which goes into effect July 1, bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy without exemptions for rape, incest or human trafficking, but does allow exemptions in cases where a pregnancy is âserious riskâ to the mother or a fatal abnormality is detected if two physicians confirm the diagnosis in writing. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Florida Gov. DeSantis signed a law to dissolve Disney’s private government. But the district still doesn’t know what that means

By Mike Schneider, Anthony Izaguirre, and others