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Ron DeSantis is running for president. This is part of a series on the 2024 president ial candidates. Gov. Ron DeSantis was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sept. 14, 1978. DeSantis was a very talented baseball player, playing in the 1991 Little League World Series. DeSantis studied at Yale University and Harvard Law School. DeSantis joined the United States Navy in 2004 and was promoted to lieutenant before serving as a legal advisor to SEAL Team One. He ran for Congress in 2012 and won his Orlando-area district. With the full endorsement of then-President Donald Trump, DeSantis ran for governor in 2018 and won. DeSantis gained national attention for his handling of COVID-19 by reopening Business es and schools in Florida by July 2020, when cases were rising nationally. In June 2021, DeSantis banned the teaching of critical race theory in Florida public schools. DeSantis signed into law what critics have termed the "Don’t Say Gay" bill, which would prohibit discussion of s...

Mexico's Supreme Court has struck down part of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's ‘jail, no bail’ program MEXICO CITY -- Mexico’s Supreme Court struck down part of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ‘jail, no bail’ policy Thursday. The court voted against mandatory pre-trial detention for people accused of fraud, smuggling or tax evasion. Because trials often take years in Mexico, the justices argued that being held in prison during trial was equivalent to being subjected to punishment before being convicted. Instead, prosecutors would have to convince judges there are valid reasons not to release people on their own recognizance — for example, by arguing that they may pose a flight risk. The justices may vote next week on whether the possibility of pre-trial release may be justified for other crimes. In 2019, López Obrador imposed mandatory pre-trial detention for a long list of crimes, and he views it as part of his crack-down on white collar criminals, like those ...