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A group representing journalists is supporting Walt Disney Parks and Resorts in a federal-court fight against Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying state retaliation against the entertainment company violated the First Amendment.The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group, filed court documents Friday arguing that U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor should reject a state request to dismiss a lawsuit that is part of a long-running feud between DeSantis and Disney.

More than 180 landowners have applied to a state-funded program — a target of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ veto pen — designed to keep swaths of rural property from commercial and residential development.

A campaign official suffered mimnor injuries and was treated at the scene. DeSantis was not hurt.

The Florida Center for Government Accountability has filed an amicus or "friend of the court" brief with an appeals court to reverse a lower court’s order that allowed Governor Ron DeSantis to block the release of public records by claiming “executive privilege.”The FLCGA partnered with American Oversight, a national foundation for open records and government accountability, and several of Florida’s advocacy groups, to file the brief in the case, J. Doe v. Governor Ron DeSantis.

Humanitarian-aid orgs say the state’s newest anti-immigration laws will hurt it, in the long run.

Gov. Ron DeSantis trimmed $510.9 million from a record-high state spending plan signed Thursday, with nearly one-fifth of the cuts coming from a single program designed to keep swaths of rural property from commercial and residential development.

Describing the relocations as “voluntary,” the state Division of Emergency Management confirmed Tuesday that Florida directed two flights that transported migrants from Texas to California.Division spokeswoman Alecia Collins also pointed to a more than two-minute video posted on the social-media site Rumble that showed images of people filling out forms, listening to upbeat music in a stretch vehicle, walking across an airport tarmac and celebrating their arrival in California.

A pro-Trump political action committee, MAGA Inc., is portraying Gov. Ron DeSantis as a weak pandemic leader and a fan of COVID-19 lockdowns, ignoring that DeSantis was among the early wave of governors to reopen states.

PolitiFact and WLRN verified a TikTok video that said the Florida governor would ban showing the Puerto Rican flag in public. We found no statements or laws backing that claim.

The Florida Department of Education is gearing up to begin crafting rules to carry out a number of measures approved by state lawmakers and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, including some proposals that were among the most controversial issues from the 2023 legislative session.The department is slated on June 9 to hold a series of online rule-development workshops that would help implement the new laws.