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From arming teachers to corporate tax breaks: Tennessee’s new, extreme laws
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Tennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature passed a litany of starkly conservative laws this year, ceding little quarter to gun control advocates and democracy activists ...
GOP lawmakers in Kansas are moving to override the veto of a ban on gender care for minors
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators moved Monday to enact a ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors and bar state ...
Democrats seek to seize control of deadlocked Michigan House in special elections
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers are hoping to win back a majority in the deadlocked Michigan House and regain control of ...
Kentucky GOP lawmakers remove Democratic governor’s role in filling US Senate vacancies
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Friday removed the Democratic governor from any role filling future U.S. Senate vacancies ...
Arizona’s Republican leaders block attempt to repeal abortion ban
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Arizona’s state Republican leadership halted an effort by Democrats on Wednesday to repeal an 1864 law banning almost all abortions, which the ...
Hunter Biden asks Los Angeles judge to toss out $1.4m tax evasion case
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Attorneys representing Hunter Biden asked a US judge in Los Angeles to dismiss the criminal case accusing him of evading $1.4m in ...
New York lawmakers expand fracking ban to include liquid carbon dioxide
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that would expand the state’s existing fracking ban by blocking natural ...
Kentucky House approves ‘school choice’ amendment despite bipartisan opposition
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A “school choice” amendment bill — a top priority for Republican lawmakers in the 2024 General Assembly — cleared the Kentucky House ...
Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown deadline
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the Senate in time ...
5 Takeaways From the State of the Union
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden delivered an energetic and impassioned speech that was as much a campaign kickoff as it was a ...
