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Effort to revive Mississippi ballot initiative process is squelched in state Senate

Mar. 18, 2024 19:47 PM EDT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators are unlikely to restore a ballot initiative process this year after a Senate chairman killed a proposal Monday. The move came days after the Senate voted 26-21 to pass a bill that would have allowed Mississippi residents to put some...

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he's not endorsing Trump

Mar. 15, 2024 18:44 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence says he will not be backing Donald Trump in the 2024 election. “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year," Pence said in an interview with Fox News Channel Friday, weighing in for the first...

Nevada Republican who lost 2022 Senate primary seeking Democratic Sen. Rosen's seat in key US match

Mar. 14, 2024 16:54 PM EDT

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown, who lost Nevada’s 2022 GOP Senate primary, filed his formal candidacy Thursday for the seat held by first-term Sen. Jacky Rosen in a race Republicans have targeted nationally as one of their best chances to knock off an incumbent Democrat....

Bill shelved that sought changes to Iowa law outlining penalties for terminating a pregnancy

Mar. 14, 2024 16:12 PM EDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A bill that would have made changes to Iowa's fetal homicide law has been shelved after a Senate Republican joined Democrats in voicing concerns about the potential impact on in vitro fertilization after an Alabama court found frozen embryos can be considered children. ...

Chris Wallace looks back at Nixon-Kennedy election in the book 'Countdown 1960

Mar. 13, 2024 08:57 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime newsman Chris Wallace isn't only thinking about this year's presidential election. The CNN anchor has written a book on the race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, narrowly won by Kennedy, that featured the first televised presidential debates....

Failure to override Nebraska governor's veto is more about politics than policy, some lawmakers say

Mar. 12, 2024 17:29 PM EDT

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers failed to garner the 30 votes needed Tuesday to override Gov. Jim Pillen’s veto of a needle exchange bill that had garnered wide bipartisan support, leading to tense debate and a return to the partisan acrimony seen in last year's session. ...

Killing of Laken Riley is now front and center of US immigration debate and 2024 presidential race

Mar. 08, 2024 14:28 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — With an unscripted clash between President Joe Biden and a Georgia congresswoman at Thursday night's State of the Union speech, the slaying of a Georgia nursing student was further cemented as a political rallying point in the 2024 presidential race. Laken Hope...

Haley says she no longer feels bound by the GOP pledge requiring her to support the eventual nominee

Mar. 03, 2024 11:58 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Sunday she no longer feels bound by a pledge that required all GOP contenders to support the party's eventual nominee in order to participate in the primary debates. The Republican National Committee had made the...

Tim Scott lost his own presidential bid. But he's gotten Donald Trump's attention for vice president

Mar. 03, 2024 08:26 AM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The biggest winner of the Republican primary season so far, besides Donald Trump, might be Tim Scott. The South Carolina senator failed in his own bid for president. But his enthusiastic campaigning for the former president has been generating buzz about...

Kentucky House backs giving lawmakers authority over statues in Capitol Rotunda

Mar. 01, 2024 15:06 PM EST

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers would claim authority over what statues are installed or removed from the state Capitol's Rotunda under a bill passed Friday by the GOP-led House, a move the bill sponsor said has nothing to do with the removal of a statue of Confederate President...