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Alaska lawmakers fail to override the governor's education package veto

Mar. 18, 2024 21:36 PM EDT

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska lawmakers on Monday failed to override Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy's veto of an education package, just weeks after the bill that sought to boost spending on public schools overwhelmingly passed the Legislature. Monday's vote during a joint session of...

House Republicans demand answers on 'gag order' for union of immigration judges

Mar. 18, 2024 17:52 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Monday demanded answers on what led to a Justice Department order that a union of immigration judges get supervisor approval before speaking publicly about the heavily backlogged courts. Rep., Jim Jordan, Judiciary Committee chair, and Rep....

Biden signs executive order on advancing study of women's health while chiding 'backward' GOP ideas

Mar. 18, 2024 15:36 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday aimed at advancing the study of women's health by strengthening data collection and providing better funding opportunities for biomedical research while chiding Republicans for having “no clue about the power of women" but...

Editorial Roundup: Ohio

Mar. 18, 2024 13:44 PM EDT

Toledo Blade. March 13, 2024. Editorial: Dolan over MAGA Ohio should avoid getting sucked down into the mire of baseless conspiracy theories and retribution rhetoric associated with former President Donald Trump and elect Republicans who believe in responsible...

Early voting to start in Wisconsin for president and constitutional amendments

Mar. 18, 2024 12:48 PM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Early voting begins Tuesday in Wisconsin for a host of local races, two proposed constitutional amendments that could alter how future elections are run and the now anticlimactic presidential primary. Here are some things to know: PRESIDENTIAL...

Pennsylvania House speaker pushes for same-day registration and widely available early voting

Mar. 18, 2024 12:22 PM EDT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania House speaker said Monday that qualified residents should be able to register to vote at polling places on the day of elections, and that early voting centers should be open for two weeks beforehand. Speaker Joanna McClinton had proposed...

Biden says at DC dinner that of 2 presidential candidates, 1 was mentally unfit. 'The other's me'

Mar. 17, 2024 14:45 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The big news this week, President Joe Biden said at a weekend Washington roast, was that two candidates had clinched their party's nomination for president. But one was too old, too mentally unfit for the job, he said. “The other's me," Biden quipped. ...

Wisconsin voters to decide on banning private money to help fund elections

Mar. 17, 2024 13:18 PM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters are set to decide next month whether to make it unconstitutional to accept private grant money to help administer state elections, one of two Republican-backed ballot measures that Democrats say are meant to make it harder to conduct elections in the...

Trump ramps up dark rhetoric in Ohio stump speech for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno

Mar. 17, 2024 10:02 AM EDT

VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) — Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Joe Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio. Trump, speaking on a wind-whipped...

Ohio primary will set up a fall election that could flip partisan control of the state supreme court

Mar. 17, 2024 08:00 AM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It's been nearly four decades since liberal-leaning justices held a majority on Ohio's supreme court. Democrats hope this is the year that changes, in a campaign that will begin to take shape with Tuesday's primary. They'll be choosing a candidate to compete...