ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ÐÔÊӽ紫ý” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced Friday he will veto a measure to create a commission to study potential slavery repara…
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FILE - Students from the University of Missouri School of Medicine pose for a group photo in a Senate committee room in the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., after testifying against legislation on March 28, 2023. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb, file)
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WASHINGTON (AP) ÐÔÊӽ紫ý” House Republicans are advancing President Donald Trump's big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security…
The California Assembly has advanced legislation to impose harsher penalties for soliciting and buying sex from 16- and 17-year-olds. The bill also would create an exemption for cases where the offenders are within three years of the victim's age. The vote came after Democrats got caught in a public dispute earlier this month and prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom and other prominent Democrats in the state to weigh in. Republicans called the vote Thursday to advance the legislation a victory for California children. The bill now heads to the Senate, where a similar bill was rejected last year.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ÐÔÊӽ紫ý” Alabama lawmakers have passed legislation that would make it a felony to knowingly bring someone into the state who is…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ÐÔÊӽ紫ý” Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday approved enhanced legal protections for police officers, changes that Republicans said …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ÐÔÊӽ紫ý” The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday the state can keep banning abortions around six weeks after conception …
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) ÐÔÊӽ紫ý” The nationalist party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán introduced a bill late Tuesday that would allow the go…
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ÐÔÊӽ紫ý” The Missouri House on Tuesday endorsed a new framework of financial incentives to try to keep the Kansas City Chief…
ArizonaÐÔÊӽ紫ý™s governor has signed legislation to create an alert system for Native Americans who have gone missing in the state. The legislation was named after Emily Pike, a San Carlos Apache teen whose remains were found after she went missing earlier this year from her group home. The measure signed Tuesday by Gov. Katie Hobbs clears the way for the creation of system that will function like an Amber Alert. Similar legislation was signed earlier this year in New Mexico and North Dakota. Native American activists have been pushing to bring more awareness to unsolved cases involving disappearances and deaths across Indian Country.