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70° F, Clear/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/3N6VRYTSISK7BOLX5EHWZRPHLQ.jpg "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, shown at a January news conference, on Monday suggested that Florida might look for other options to the College Board and its Advanced Placement courses. DeSantis and College Board officials have been sparring over an African American studies course.")
“Nobody elected them to anything,” he said of the College Board, which administers AP courses.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/4WBTGCYQTW3GHMMUDJEMCGYYCQ.jpg "Rep. Anna V. Eskamani, D-Orlando, questions Rep. Fred Hawkins, R-St. Cloud about his House Bill 9B, which would change Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, at the Capitol in Tallahassee.")
Lawmakers passed bills related to Disney, voter fraud, migrants and more.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/LCLBSZAHHNA3VFUIZ3BADMCQM4.JPG "Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to a crowd of supporters during his election night party at the Tampa Convention Center on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Tampa.")
According to emails from a Tampa Convention Center employee, the campaign didn’t want the move attributed to them.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/E2E6ZGRAEVAB7MSLFOYGZ4CUAE.jpg "Nikki Fried, then-Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Democratic candidate for governor, speaks during a news conference outside the Pat Franks Court Building Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, in Tampa. Fried on Monday announced she is running to be the next chairperson for the Florida Democratic Party.")
The previous chairperson of the party abruptly resigned after Democrats’ massive 2022 losses.
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/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/RJ6WJ6PZJQDSVJZZRCLJ5D72PI.jpg "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks as he announces a proposal for a Digital Bill of Rights Wednesday at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/D4YAMSYCN6KRWK5N2LKDXVXPZU.jpg "The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks to a crowd of hundreds from the steps of the Senate portico during the National Action Network demonstration in response to Gov. Ron DeSantis's rejection of a high school African American history course, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023 in Tallahassee.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/OLIGAD7UMA4VGJ67KO33WU4UWQ.jpg "The Florida Capitol rotunda is abuzz with people during the Special Session Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, in Tallahassee.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/QB7P4FZBAUJS6HZZSDE4UVAKWU.jpg "Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wants a bill that would, in part, block state and local government devices from being able to access TikTok.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/AKM6KLYBDUFNU5TY2GQLFZKFHM.jpg "New rules from the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine will bar doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries to treat new patients younger than 18 for gender dysphoria. Kaleb Hobson-Garcia, a transgender man, drove from Tallahassee to speak during a press conference in front of the Marriott Fort Lauderdale Airport as the Board of Medicine met in August 2022.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/JZRA4X3KFBG2JTFXHEMANDXHOE.jpg "Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., listens during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/2J5JV6QYAFHTNGS7UJX6GUBT7Y.JPG "The Tampa City Council elections on March 7 could clear the hostility between Mayor Jane Castor and City Council, or it could intensify it.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/IT2JTNQDUFFM5NRNTNSCFZLBAM.JPG "An unidentified fan runs onto the field during the fourth quarter of Super Bowl 55 between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs, Feb. 7, 2021, in Tampa.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/HIW4I2GSLBMWF3KW6FU5VNUMLY.jpg "A Drug Enforcement Administration chemist checks confiscated powder containing fentanyl at the DEA Northeast Regional Laboratory on Oct. 8, 2019, in New York.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/INIAYLXFEJEGBNKSFU7TEG2N4Q.JPG "Calandra Peterkin, a member of the University of South Florida Chapter of the NAACP, participates in a hybrid meeting at USF’s Marshall Student Center in Tampa on Sunday. The students planned for a Black History Month event during their meeting.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/VZZJTAMF5BDJJOPKA37LP55ILM.JPG "Andrew Warren, left, was removed as Hillsborough County's state attorney last fall by Gov. Ron DeSantis.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/BFOSAKGGAQI6TCHRIBWI6S7HAY.jpg "Bills filed in the House and Senate (HB 543 and SB 150) would eliminate a requirement that people get state concealed-weapons licenses to carry guns — a proposed change that supporters call “constitutional carry.” Monday. those proposals got the backing of the Florida Police Chiefs Association — joining the Florida Sheriffs Association, which already came out in support of the legislation.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/QW443CIHPZCO7C4QP3N3262MDQ.jpg "Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at Harpoon Harry's Crab House, 225 South Franklin St. in Tampa, on July 27, 2022.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/CCDQPNY5W7BQGZGEFCED7YMLOQ.jpg "Supporters of a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the recreational use of marijuana in Florida have submitted 291,999 valid petition signatures for the ballot initiative as of Monday morning.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/BX4O3WEP6DUZXK4K4YL5POCFR4.jpg "A Venezuelan migrant is led onto a bus at St. Andrews Episcopal Church on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, in Edgartown, Mass., on the island of Marthas Vineyard. Florida flew a group of 48 migrants to the island from Texas.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/YU34CM5ECVFKTDCZENUFE25FSE.JPG "Kathryn Meas, 60, washes the last of her dishes in the home she sold to get out from under a loan she took out to pay for a new air conditioner. The loan is from the PACE program, which is meant to help people finance energy-efficient upgrades to their homes.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/L77O6FOARJBRZLBLUPUDVQTCEU.JPG "Former Pinellas County Commissioner Bruce Tyndall, center, with his attorney, Paul Meissner, and wife, Barbara Tyndall, during a 1997 hearing in which he pleaded no contest to a cocaine possession charge. Tyndall, who served 18 years on the County Commission before a drug scandal ended his career, died this month at 86.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/LSQNDDL6ZFKJAEIDVGZEXRLJ34.jpg "Attorney Ben Crump, left, stands with the three Leon County high school students who are threatening to file a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration over the ban of a proposed Advanced Placement course on African American Studies in Florida high schools. The College Board has called the administration's attacks on the course \"politically motivated.\"")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/6W47XCEHOB2CJSILZDWNJFHF7I.jpg "Gavin Newsom talks Monday, Feb. 7, 2023, at the state Capitol.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/VOR25N6G7XXLMGVQVLQC2NL74E.jpg "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Richard Martin as the newest judge on the Hillsborough County Court, filling the vacancy created when former judge Susan Lopez was appointed as Hillsborough County's top prosecutor.")
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