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The Latest: California has given over 18M vaccine doses The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 20 1of20Dr. Mark Ghaly, Secretary, California Health and Human Services, left, inoculates California Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in Los Angeles Thursday, April 1, 2021. Newsom was vaccinated with the new one-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine by Johnson & Johnson.Damian Dovarganes/APShow MoreShow Less 2of20FILE - This Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 file photo shows...

Kansas lawmakers OK bill mandating civics test for students ANDY TSUBASA FIELD, Associated Press/Report for America April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Legislature passed a Republican-backed bill Wednesday that would require graduating high school students to have passed a civics test with questions such as, “What is one way Americans can serve their country?” The GOP-controlled Senate voted 24-15 for the bill and sent it to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. The...

Summer school, reading improvement bills pass NC legislature GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, center, and lawmakers gather Wednesday, March 10, 2021, for a news conference to announce that leaders of the Republican-led state legislature and the governor have reached an agreement to reopen the states K-12 public schools to full-time daily instruction in Raleigh. (Juli Leonard/The News & Observer via AP)Juli Leonard/AP RALEIG...

Budget writers derail plan seen as bailout for Hoevens bank JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Budget writers in the Republican-controlled North Dakota House want to derail legislation to save a troubled shipping facility, after criticism that the move was a bailout for banks, including one owned by GOP U.S. Sen. John Hoeven. Five Minot-area lawmakers sponsored the legislation for the intermodal shipping facility that sought to provide $8.2 million ...

Nevada to revisit mail-in ballot debate after 2020 spotlight SAM METZ, AP / Report for America April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, a county election worker scans mail-in ballots as observers watch at a tabulating area at the Clark County Election Department in Las Vegas. Nevada lawmakers are considering sending mail-in ballots to all active voters in future elections after passing a law last summer that directed election officials to do...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators dont yet agree on how much time to give the...

Things to know about recreational pot in New Mexico MORGAN LEE, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5FILE - In this June 11, 2019, file photo, store manager Ruby Amsden, left, attends to medical marijuana customer and retired nurse Jan Stewart, who uses cannabis to relieve pain associated with her recovery from bone cancer and help with sleeping, at the Minerva medical cannabis dispensary in Santa Fe, N.M. Legislation to legalize cannabis in New Mexico advanced Thursday, Mar...

Justice Department working with tribes on missing persons MICHAEL BALSAMO and IRIS SAMUELS, Associated Press/Report for America April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3In this image from video, Ernie Weyand, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person coordinator for the Justice Department in Montana, speaks at virtual news conference Thursday, April 1, 2021, announcing a development in the initiative. The Justice Department has finalized its first plan to help address the problem ...

Minus data provision, Senate passes police transparency bill HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Senate on Thursday approved a bill aimed at increasing police transparency but rejected provisions that would have required collecting racial data about those who are stopped, searched or arrested. The bill implements some of the recommendations of the Commission on Law Enforcement, Accountability, Community and Transparency created by Gov. Ch...

DeSantis plans to send COVID relief money to 1st responders BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, Associated Press March 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE - In this March 5, 2021 file photo, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media as he visited the drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination site at On Top of the World in Ocala, Fla., Repealing statewide mask mandates and criticizing the Biden administration’s unemployment-based formula for distributing billions in federal aid has put Republican...