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Texas parental rights amendment gets its first test in court, as Calif ignores Texas child orders
Texas Supreme Court cost father his parental rights with his gender-confused son by wrongly assuming California courts would follow Texas court orders. Now it's asking for help interpreting new constitutional amendment.
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DeSantis announces special legislative session for redistricting
"Every Florida resident deserves to be represented fairly and constitutionally," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said
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Kathy Hochul to propose No Tax on Tips legislation in New York's 2027 executive budget
The governor also noted that the state's minimum wage will also increase starting Thursday, which will now be $16 an hour for most New Yorkers and $17 an hour in New York City, Westchester, and Long Island.
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California accuses Florida of shipping migrants as plane with more arrives in Sacramento
"While we continue to collect evidence, I want to say this very clearly: State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting," California's Democrat attorney general said.
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CPAC says Wyoming state legislature voted less conservatively than last session
Notably, the state Senate, which has 28 Republicans and 2 Democrats, even had one Democrat vote more conservatively than a Republican.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin deploys 100 Virginia National Guard troops to assist Texas border response
Virginia is the latest GOP-run state to send personnel to the border following similar deployments from four other states.
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Texas Senate gives members until late August to begin impeachment trial for Attorney General Paxton
Paxton, a conservative legal star, is suspended from office pending the trial in the state Senate.
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Texas legislature sends anti-DEI bill for public universities to Gov. Greg Abbott
The bill would require state universities to abolish their DEI programs, offices, and mandatory trainings in the next six months.
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NAACP issues Florida travel warning in response to DeSantis' policies on black history, diversity
The advisory states that Florida "does not welcome the contributions of African Americans and people of color."
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DeSantis responds to Trump's criticism of Florida's six-week abortion ban
The former president would not say whether he believed a six-week ban was too far.
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North Carolina governor vetoes 12-week abortion ban, GOP lawmakers vow override
Cooper said the legislation would "create dangerous interference with the doctor-patient relationship."
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Newsom announces $32 billion budget deficit in California a year after $97 billion surplus
The state's budget deficit turns out to be $10 billion higher than he had predicted back in January of this year.
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Texas mulls state-run border protection amid migration surge, end of Title 42
The measure would further make it a felony to deliberately trespass on private land to enter the Lone Star State.