Ron DeSantis

The latest move builds on the governor’s larger push to shape Florida’s education system through regulating how schools deal with subjects such as race and gender

Biden put his ability to solve problems at the core of his pitch to voters in 2020 and it is central to his argument for why, at 80, he’s best prepared for four more years in the White House. Now, it’s crunch time

DeSantis, expected to announce his 2024 presidential campaign any day, highlighted his willingness to embrace conservative cultural fights and sprinkled his remarks with indirect jabs at the former president, whose own event in the state had to be cancelled due to a tornado warning

The Florida governor and the former president will share the spotlight on Saturday, providing a chance to sway influential conservative activists and contrast their campaign styles in Republicans’ leadoff voting state

The magnitude of the challenge ahead for Trump’s Republican rivals was painfully exposed as the former president repeatedly turned his greatest political liabilities into jokes and applause lines for the Republican voters in attendance

While Republicans have closed ranks with the former president in other legal cases, there are concerns the latest sentence will dent his popularity, especially among female voters

The measure signed Wednesday is part of DeSantis’ plan to harden Florida’s immigration laws. DeSantis regularly heaves criticism on federal border policy and takes a hard-right stance geared toward Republican primary voters

It has been updated with developments since the entertainment giant nearly two weeks ago sued DeSantis and a new oversight board for the Disney World governing district

Intensifying his hard-right shift that began during the pandemic, the 44-year-old Republican governor in recent weeks has pushed the limits of divisive cultural battles over abortion, LGBTQ rights, sex education, guns, immigration and diversity

DeSantis is expected to sign the bills into law. He has driven a hardline conservative agenda as he seeks to bolster support of Republican primary voters

In 2022 libraries recorded requests to withdraw 2,571 titles, twice as many as in the previous year. Florida has laws that specify jail terms of up to five years for teachers and librarians who bypass bans

The board also approved defending itself in federal court in Tallahassee where Disney filed its lawsuit last Wednesday against the governor, the board and its five members

The Democrat is shaping the 2024 election as a moral battle for the ‘soul of America,’ which he says is at risk from Trump’s ‘MAGA Republicans’

DeSantis is slated to headline Iowa Rep. Randy Feenstra’s annual summer fundraiser in northwest Iowa on May 13, A Trump campaign official says the former president now plans to be in Iowa on the same day

Georgia is among the states where Trump-aligned Republicans have joined the ranks of party leadership, but mounting electoral losses raise questions about whether they’re out of step with voters

Facing questions this week about his standing within the GOP and his fight with Disney, he’s sometimes appeared agitated, reinforcing concerns within corners of his own party about his readiness for the rigor of presidential politics

Disney alleges the governor waged a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” after the company opposed a law critics call “Don’t Say Gay”. DeSantis said Disney should be held accountable under a new board he appointed, rather than govern itself

After celebrating last year’s overthrow of ‘Roe v. Wade,’ Republicans are now avoiding the topic so as not to hurt their chances ahead of the 2024 election

The company alleges that the Florida governor waged a ‘targeted campaign of government retaliation’ after Disney opposed a law critics call ‘Don’t Say Gay’

The former two-term governor of Arkansas pledged Wednesday to be a leader who ‘will bring out the best of America’ and aimed in his speech to draw contrasts with other GOP hopefuls on top issues

State Republicans filed on Tuesday a proposal that would exempt presidential candidates from Florida’s so-called resign to run law, which prohibits elected officials from qualifying as a candidate for another office that would overlap with their current term

Critics said the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several topics from the framework, including the Black Lives Matter and slavery reparations movements

The president’s decision to run for re-election raises little excitement, even among Democratic supporters

The current president of the United States released a short video to present his candidacy for a second term, where he could face the same rival he defeated in 2020

Top Democrats have remained solidly unified behind the president, despite his low approval ratings and many Americans saying they’d rather not see the 80-year-old Biden try for four more years in the White House

In South Carolina and Nevada, his operatives are moving quickly to build out a political team that is essentially a campaign in waiting. In Washington, his most vocal supporters are urging him to announce his presidential intentions now

With the president planning to announce he is running for re-election and the real estate mogul the favorite of Republican voters, all signs suggest there will be a repeat of the 2020 White House race. It would be the first time this has happened in seven decades