China shows Afghanistan ambitions at multinational meetings
BEIJING (AP) — China’s ambitions to have a major hand in Afghanistan's stability and development under the Taliban, while boosting its own stature, will be on display at a pair of multinational meetings it is hosting starting Wednesday.
GOP-led Missouri House votes to defund Planned Parenthood
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The GOP-led Missouri House on Tuesday advanced a bill to defund Planned Parenthood, ban fetal tissue donations and put additional restrictions on abortion.
Texas to review prayer, touch requests in executions by case
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas prison officials said Tuesday they don’t plan to formally update their rules after last week’s Supreme Court ruling that indicated states must accommodate the requests of death row inmates who want to have their spiritual
Arizona Coyotes seek gambling law change for ASU arena
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes want a new state law that legalizes sports betting changed to allow them to keep running their mobile sports gambling operation when they move from Glendale to Arizona State University's hockey arena next season.
Budget: New Titans stadium, grocery tax pause, vote machines
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers peppered Gov. Bill Lee's finance team with questions Tuesday about its proposal to authorize $500 million in bonds to help the Tennessee Titans build a new enclosed stadium. Some said the request caugh...
Tensions flare in Alaska House over masking, floor sessions
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Tensions are flaring in the Alaska House over masking rules imposed during a COVID-19 outbreak, with floor sessions cut short or canceled and minority Republicans decrying what they called delay tactics with the chamber yet to
Maryland lawmakers pass bill to expand access to abortion
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly passed a bill Tuesday that would expand access to abortion by ending a restriction that only physicians provide them and requiring most insurance plans to cover abortion care without cost.
SD House committee points to ‘in office’ clause to clear AG
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Republicans on a South Dakota House committee want to clear the state's attorney general of impeachment charges for his actions surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash, arguing that anything wrong he did was not part of
Threats to Congress get man 1 year, 3 months in prison
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of making threatening phone calls to three members of Congress was sentenced Tuesday to a year and three months in federal prison.
Uncertainty mounts as Missouri stalls on new US House seats
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s candidacy filing period for Congress closed Tuesday without new voting districts in place, as the state’s Republican-led Legislature remained bogged down by disagreements.
