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United States
Trump’s name cleared to land on Palm Beach airport
The president’s local airport, minutes away from his Mar-a-Lago home, will be called the President Donald J. Trump International Airport.
20 Feb 2026 - 5:38PM
US-China relations
US appeal court says Florida can ban Chinese citizens from property purchases
7 Nov 2025 - 8:13AM
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Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ can stay open for now, US appeal court rules
5 Sep 2025 - 5:46AM
United States
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ ordered to close, potentially costing Florida US$218m
The controversial detention facility is being emptied as a judge rules it violated environmental laws.
29 Aug 2025 - 2:38PM
United States
Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ likely to be empty within days: Florida official
A judge has ordered the controversial immigration detention facility to be shut down.
28 Aug 2025 - 3:26AM
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Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ faces closure. What happens now?
A US judge has ordered that the immigration detention centre in the Florida Everglades be shut within two months.
23 Aug 2025 - 9:27AM
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After ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, Florida unveils plans for ‘Deportation Depot’
The detention centre will be housed at a state prison and could hold up to 2,000 immigrants.
15 Aug 2025 - 1:34AM
United States
Texas redistricting gambit ignites national arms race to control US Congress
Texas Republicans move to redraw congressional map, prompting threats of retaliation from Democratic governors in other states.
6 Aug 2025 - 12:46PM
US immigration
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainees held without charges, lawyers say
Immigration lawyers who claim 100 people have already been deported are seeking a restraining order against the Florida detention centre.
29 Jul 2025 - 2:35AM
Donald Trump
Inside Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: worms in food, sewage near beds
The US president and his allies have praised the detention centre’s harshness, hoping it will help persuade immigrants to ‘self-deport’.
12 Jul 2025 - 5:42AM
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Trump tours ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, wants more deportation facilities like it
The remote migrant detention centre is located in the Florida Everglades, in a wetland teeming with alligators, crocodiles and pythons.
2 Jul 2025 - 10:49AM
Marco Rubio
Meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s siblings Mario, Barbara and Veronica
Marco Rubio’s brother Mario Rubio is an army veteran who also worked in government, while their sister Barbara’s husband worked for zookeeper Mario Tabraue and served 12 years in jail.
7 May 2025 - 5:00AM
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US presidential election 2024
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Hubris, infighting, awkward moments: how DeSantis 2024 unravelled
Ron DeSantis entered the 2024 presidential race last May with swagger, high expectations and US$130 million in the bank. He exited the race on Sunday less than a year later with cratering poll numbers.
22 Jan 2024 - 2:13PM
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Can Trump be stopped? Key questions after DeSantis exits
Donald Trump’s effort to march to the Republican presidential nomination faces perhaps its greatest challenge on Tuesday when voters in New Hampshire hold the first-in-the-nation primary.
22 Jan 2024 - 4:38PM
US presidential election 2024
Ron DeSantis ends 2024 campaign, endorses Donald Trump
On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, the Florida governor ended a White House bid that failed to meet expectations he would emerge as a serious challenger to the former US president.
22 Jan 2024 - 4:26PM
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Trump dominates Iowa caucus, DeSantis edges Haley for second
Donald Trump’s victory on Monday night gives him a strong start in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination as the contest moves to New Hampshire.
16 Jan 2024 - 5:08PM
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US-China relations
Anti-Chinese laws take toll in Florida as Ron DeSantis’ presidential run falters
The Florida governor has built his campaign partly on moves against Chinese staff at state universities and restrictions on property purchases.
13 Jan 2024 - 7:02AM
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Haley and DeSantis turn fire on Trump in Republican 2024 race
South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis battle for a distant second place to former president Donald Trump with less than two weeks until Iowa’s leadoff caucuses.
5 Jan 2024 - 2:51PM
US-China relations
DeSantis says China creates conflict by propping up Russia and Iran
The 2024 US presidential hopeful linked Beijing to the Ukraine and Israel-Gaza wars, and called the Asian superpower a ‘formidable threat’ to the US.
28 Oct 2023 - 2:34AM
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Ukraine war
DeSantis says Ukraine joining Nato isn’t in best interest of US
The Republican presidential hopeful says such a move would mean more obligations for the us, and added that Washington should not give Kyiv a ‘blank cheque’.
24 Sep 2023 - 7:33AM
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Biden visits Florida in Hurricane Idalia’s wake, but DeSantis won’t meet him
The governor and 2024 presidential hopeful may not want to be photographed with Biden overlooking storm damage now as the Republican primary race intensifies.
3 Sep 2023 - 4:21AM
US presidential election 2024
DeSantis replaces campaign manager as 2024 US presidential bid flounders
James Uthmeier will take over from long-time aide Generra Peck, as the Florida governor trails Donald Trump in the race for the Republican nomination.
9 Aug 2023 - 8:09AM
US-China relations
Ron DeSantis lashes out at China and corporate power in campaign speech
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a 2024 Republican presidential hopeful, unveiled a broad economic policy zeroing in on China’s rise.
1 Aug 2023 - 10:13AM
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DeSantis cuts a third of presidential campaign staff as he seeks urgent reset
The Florida governor, thought to be Trump’s chief rival in the Republican primary contest, is in financial trouble as his stumbling campaign burns through cash.
26 Jul 2023 - 6:06AM
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US presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis supports revoking China’s trade status
If he won the 2024 White House race, Republican DeSantis said he would take steps to revoke China’s permanent normal trade relations status. The US Senate voted in 2000 to grant normal trade relations status to China.
10 Jul 2023 - 12:48AM
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Ron DeSantis quiet on Trump indictment as he faces conservatives in Trump country
Speaking to Nevada Republicans for the first time as a presidential candidate, the Florida governor said the US ‘is off the rails’. He made no direct mention of the federal indictment of chief Republican rival Donald Trump.
18 Jun 2023 - 7:25AM
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DeSantis dares Newsom to take on Biden in 2024
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida escalated his feud with California Governor Gavin Newsom, daring him to ‘stop pussyfooting around’ and launch a primary challenge against US President Joe Biden.
16 Jun 2023 - 1:55PM
United States
Ron DeSantis channels Churchill’s iconic 1940 speech to wage war on ‘woke’
Florida governor, who hopes to become president, said ‘we will fight the woke in education, we will fight the woke in corporations, we will fight the woke in Congress’, his words reminiscent of British PM Winston Churchill’s speech to boost morale during war against Nazis.
5 Jun 2023 - 7:52PM
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