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The governor began by announcing that lawmakers will consider terminating Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District during the special session this week. DeSantis issued a proclamation calling for the special session to be expanded to include consideration of terminating all special districts enacted in Florida prior to 1968. Years before Cinderella…

A federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the CDC had overstepped its authority when it issued a mask mandate for planes and other forms of public transportation. The Transportation Security Administration will not enforce the Covid-19 mask mandate on planes and other public transportation, after a federal judge…

As renewed restrictions in response to a surge in infections since October squeeze consumer spending. China’s nominal retail sales of consumer goods climbed 4.9% on the year in October, according to data published Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics. Year-on-year gains rose from 4.4% in September despite market projections for a…

Title 42 is a pandemic public health authority used to turn away the majority of illegal immigrants who come across the southern border. Homeland security officials anticipate as many as 18,000 people a day could be encountered trying to enter the U.S. in the six weeks after Title 42 ends.…

Dershowitz has spent a year on the sidelines speaking out about government overreach and constitutional rights violations. His deciding factor was the fact that one defendant was a law school student whose diploma was withheld and who has been prohibited from taking the bar exam because he has five counts hanging over his…

“I don’t believe that the proposed offer by Elon Musk ($54.20) comes close to the intrinsic value of Twitter given its growth prospects,” he said in a tweet on his personal account. Being one of the largest and long-term shareholders of Twitter, Kingdom Holding Co. and I reject this offer,” he…

Musk’s offer price of $54.20 per share represents a 38 percent premium to the closing price of Twitter’s stock on April 1. Elon Musk has made a “best and final” offer to buy Twitter Inc., saying the company has extraordinary potential and he will unlock it. The world’s richest man…

The package will include artillery systems, artillery rounds and armored personnel carriers, Biden said in a statement after a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiyy. It includes missile defense systems and drones that Zelensky requested, but not the Polish MiG-29 fighter jets that the Kyiv government has sought to…

Gov. Greg Abbott on April 6 announced the policy in response to the Biden administration ending the Trump-era Title 42 program. Busing migrants from Texas to the nation’s capital is just one of the measures Abbott put in place in response to the Biden administration ending the Trump-era Title 42,…

Creating a political crisis for Gov. Kathy Hochul seven months after she selected Benjamin as a partner to make a fresh start in an office already rocked by scandal. Facing charges including bribery, fraud, conspiracy and falsification of records, Benjamin pleaded not guilty Tuesday at an initial appearance in Manhattan…