Thirty minutes into a routine appearance Thursday on Florida’s Gulf Coast, Gov. Ron DeSantis abruptly turned his fire on a fellow Republican, accusing a veteran state lawmaker of betraying the party’s voters.

President Donald Trump endorsed Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters to be the next Republican National Committee chair. Here's what to know.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order mandating that federal authorities clarify whether college athletes can be considered employees of the schools they play for in an attempt to create clearer national standards in the NCAA’s name, image and likeness era.

Trump endorsed Gruters at the end of a post about current RNC Chairman Michael Whatley, who is expected to step down from his position to seek a soon-to-be-open seat in the U.S. Senate representing North Carolina. Trump said Whatley has his endorsement for the Senate seat should he run.

President Donald Trump is backing Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters to chair the Republican National Committee and replace Michael Whatley as he runs for Senate in North Carolina. Trump announced his support Thursday in a Truth Social post about Whatley, who is expected to publicly announce his Senate candidacy in the coming days.

The president has struggled to quell anger from some of his ordinarily loyal supporters over the Epstein files.

The groups have organized a protest on Saturday afternoon at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami to protest what they’re calling the “Big Ugly Bill” — President Donald Trump’s sweeping federal spending measure they say slashes critical services for low-income residents while enriching the ultra-wealthy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing Democratic calls to testify before Congress following a newspaper’s revelation that she told President Donald Trump that his name appeared in the files of the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation.

Following President Donald Trump’s executive order on college sports, Florida athletics director Scott Stricklin has issued a statement endorsing Trump’s decision. Stricklin has been the AD at Florida 2016.

A judge has rejected a Trump administration request to unseal transcripts from grand jury investigations of Jeffrey Epstein years ago in Florida.

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus, the university announced Wednesday.