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Ron DeSantis awards Barbara Nicklaus Florida Governor’s Medal of Freedom

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis highlighted Barbara Nicklaus' longtime support for children's healthcare.

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Florida House approves ‘don’t say gay’ and ‘anti-woke’ bills, backing DeSantis agenda

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida House signed off on culture war measures Thursday backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that seek to combat “woke” ideology and limit instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.

Tribune News Service

Florida's new coronavirus guidance: 'Buck the CDC'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo have announced new coronavirus policy recommendations that discourage mask wearing and push physicians to use off-label medications to treat the virus

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Ron DeSantis fuels US presidential run speculation with CPAC speech

Florida governor lambasted Biden, media and ‘wokeism’ while claiming his state is a bastion of freedom that defeated ‘Faucism’

The Guardian - US

Don’t mention the Donald: The Trump-DeSantis rivalry hits CPAC

Ron DeSantis has been closing on Trump in the polls, but can he really challenge his Florida neighbours grip on the Republican Party? Richard Hall reports from CPAC.

The Independent UK

‘Florida has defeated Fauci-ism,’ Gov. Ron DeSantis tells CPAC convention

ORLANDO, Fla. — Declaring that “Florida has defeated Fauci-ism” and condemning the “scientific and technical elite,” Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off CPAC in Orlando on Thursday, where some of America’s most prominent conservatives gathered for four days of schmoozing and speeches.

Orlando Sentinel

CPAC Orlando: DeSantis to kick off 4-day conservative event today

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to kick off CPAC in Orlando today, as some of America’s most prominent conservatives gather for four days of schmoozing, discussions and speeches.

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Fabiola Santiago: Don’t dismiss DeSantis’ blows against immigrant children as rhetoric. It’s who he is

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, leader of a state heavily dependent on the labor of immigrants and dotted from one end of the peninsula to the other with their success stories, is hell-bent on vilifying us.

Miami Herald

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo confirmed by Florida Senate

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pick to be the state’s surgeon general.

Tribune News Service

Florida House emotionally debates race, gender, sexual orientation in school settings

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — With culture wars heating up in an election year, the Florida House on Tuesday split along bitter partisan lines as members considered two Republican-sponsored education bills that target discussions of race and sexual orientation in public schools.

Miami Herald

Can Democrats beat DeSantis next fall? A look at the odds, and what it would take

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The three Democratic candidates for Florida governor are talking to voters, offering optimistic sound bites to interviewers, and courting financial donors — selling themselves and the premise that they really, truly have a chance to defeat Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Florida's redistricting maps are all right; your ability to vote is not

There is mixed news from Tallahassee about the most important American principle: the right to vote. Redistricting is going a bit better than usual. Voting rights are going backward.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: On DeSantis’ warpath to the White House, Black Floridians are the targets

During the 2018 gubernatorial race, then-candidate Ron DeSantis told Fox News Floridians shouldn’t “monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda” and electing Black Democratic opponent Andrew Gillum. It’s hard to believe the Ivy League-educated DeSantis didn’t understand the racially charged context of his statement, but, faced with…

Miami Herald

Florida governor: school districts that defied no-mask mandate to lose $200m

Ron DeSantis is backing a bill that would strip education funding from Democratic counties that retained Covid precautions

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These Democrats want to take on Ron DeSantis. Each has pluses, minuses

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Three Democrats — Charlie Crist, Nikki Fried and Annette Taddeo — are vigorously competing for what in many ways is an unenviable job: running as the Democratic nominee against Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.

Miami Herald

Lawmaker sponsoring DeSantis’ immigration bill says intent is not to target children

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In recent months, Gov. Ron DeSantis has directed state regulators to crack down on shelters that house unaccompanied minors in Florida and asked the Legislature to bar state contracts with companies that transport migrants, including children, into the state on behalf of the federal government.

The Guardian - US

Republicans who opposed racial justice protests hope truckers ‘clog up’ US cities

Lawmakers including Rand Paul and Ron DeSantis say they would back disruption of a Canadian-style trucker convoy

The Independent UK

Florida Senate passes budget that wouldn't punish schools

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Migrant minors dispute pits Florida against Catholic Church

The debate over whether to deter or accommodate unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has pitted Florida’s Catholic governor against the state’s highest-ranking Roman Catholic

Orlando Sentinel

DeSantis now supports taking $200 million from schools that mandated masks

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis now supports a plan to withhold $200 million in funding from 12 school districts that mandated masks because of the pandemic, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Orlando Sentinel

DeSantis now supports taking $200 million from schools that mandated masks

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis now supports a plan to withhold $200 million in funding from 12 school districts that mandated masks because of the pandemic, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Orlando Sentinel

Poll: DeSantis leads Democratic rivals for Fla. governor, with Crist on top in primary

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis holds sizable advantages over his potential Democratic opponents in this year’s race for governor, a poll released Tuesday shows.

Tribune News Service

Los medicamentos COVID que salvan vidas pueden ser difíciles de conseguir

Apartándose de la práctica habitual, los gobiernos federal y estatal están repartiendo los escasos fármacos terapéuticos que tratan el COVID-19, decidiendo dónde irán y en qué cantidades.

Miami Herald

DeSantis rebukes proposed $200 million cuts for school districts that mandated masks

MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday rebuked a proposal to take away $200 million from a dozen school districts that implemented strict mask mandates last year in defiance of his administration.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vows veto of Congress maps; House seeks to break up Murphy and Demings seats

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday threatened to veto any congressional map coming out of the Legislature that doesn’t eliminate a Black district in North Florida.

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