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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody came up empty on a public records request that sought to gain insight into agreements the Reedy Creek Improvement District’s board made with Disney ahead of a state takeover. The district, which oversees government services for Disney World, determined “no records exist” for the request filed on March 30 by Moody’s office. A similar request filed by the Orlando Sentinel also yielded no documents. Moody sought “documents discussing an intention or goal of circumventing, avoiding, frustrating, mitigating or otherwise attempting to avoid the effects of antici......

ORLANDO, Fla. — Escalating an already hot feud, Gov. Ron DeSantis says he plans to work with the Legislature to void the Reedy Creek deal with Disney that stripped the new board of its power and consider imposing new hotel taxes and tolls on Disney World. “Come hell or high water, we’re going to make sure that policy of Florida carries the day,” DeSantis said in a speech at Hillsdale College in Michigan on Thursday night and first reported by Politico. “And so they can keep trying to do things. But ultimately we’re going to win on every single issue involving Disney, I can tell you that.” In a......

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams bragged in 2019 about being a better cop than his “cracker” colleagues in the NYPD, the Daily News has learned. Adams, who was at the time gearing up to launch his campaign for mayor, went on the racially charged diatribe while at a private event in Harlem on Dec. 13, 2019, a video exclusively obtained by The News shows. “Every day in the Police Department, I kicked those crackers’ a--,” Adams says in the video. “Man, I was unbelievable in the Police Department with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement,” he continued, referring to a police advocacy group he co-founded in t......

NEW YORK — New York City mayoral candidates Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia linked up on the campaign trail Saturday in an unusual move to encourage one another’s supporters to give the other candidate their No. 2 vote. “You don’t have to pick between Andrew Yang or Kathryn Garcia ” Garcia said at a Queens morning appearance. “You can vote for both of us.” The pair planned to barnstorm across the city as they seek out voters in each others strongholds. The two candidates’ unusual alliance comes just days before the Democratic primary day on Tuesday. The mayoral race is the first major election ......