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Gov. Ron DeSantis called up the National Guard on Friday night in advance of what officials fear could become violent pro-President Trump rallies on Sunday and next week at the Florida Capitol.

Joe Budd, a leader of the Palm Beach County Republican Party, says he wants Congressman Matt Gaetz to challenge U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio in the 2022 party primary for U.S. Senate. Budd said he isn’t the only one who feels that way. “Our people who are your more hard-core Trump supporters have a disdain for Marco Rubio."

As Florida’s coronavirus death count continued to rise Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Texas telling a conservative group that Big Tech censorship of conservatives was “probably the most important legislative issue that we’re going to have to get right this year.”

A pilot was uninjured after a single-engine Sting S4 Ultralight aircraft made a hard landing shortly after takeoff Friday at the North Perry Airport.

“It is designed to silence, criminalize and penalize those protesting for racial justice," Kara Gross of the ACLU says of Gov. Ron DeSantis' anti-rioting proposal. "The intent of it is to silence dissent.”

Florida reported 16,875 new coronavirus cases and another 186 resident deaths. In total, more than 1.54 million Florida residents have had COVID-19.

Here are the answers to some of your biggest questions about COVID-19 vaccinations.

A coalition of environmental groups have sued to prevent a new EPA rule from going into effect, saying that by allowing Florida to manage the permit process for wetlands development, the EPA "is lowering the bar to allow a state, for the first time, to run the federal wetlands program without meeting federal standards.”

Armed carjacking leaves one man shot and Kristopher Alexander Burke Barrett in jail, police say