Eight trial court and appellate judges are among the ten applicants to replace outgoing Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady.

Gov. Ron DeSantis became Florida’s 46th governor on January 8, 2019. Prior to that, DeSantis represented Florida’s 6th congressional district in the U.S. Congress from 2013-2018. A Republican, DeSantis graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School and then served as an officer and attorney in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps,

In his first direct comments about Trump's executive order, DeSantis, a vocal AI skeptic, was confident any actions taken by Florida would survive possible federal scrutiny.

DeSantis's maneuvering since his return to Florida indicates the possibility of another presidential bid, despite his protestations.

The takeover would come as USFSM is growing its campus with multi-million-dollar investments — including its first on-campus dormitory and a $6.5 million STEM facility — while DeSantis and New College officials continue to gather new land for nearby New College.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s eighth and final legislative budget makes another run at redirecting cancer funding in Florida, including jettisoning a requirement that funds be awarded only to peer-reviewed projects and empowering an eight-member “collaborative” to direct how the state spends hundreds of millions of dollars on cancer care and research.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida can regulate artificial intelligence despite President Donald Trump's executive order to create a national AI standard.

DeSantis said there are currently no hyperscale data centers in Florida. The data center being proposed in Palm Beach County would be on the north side of Southern Boulevard about 4 miles west of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road and adjacent to a Florida Power & Light Co. energy plant.

One candidate accused DeSantis of playing politics with a formerly Republican-held seat Democrats are hopeful they can win back.