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Senators elect 7 members to UNC Board of Governors March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Senate elected seven people Wednesday to the governing panel for the 17-campus University of North Carolina system. Senators reelected to the UNC Board of Governors board Chair Randy Ramsey, discount retailer CEO and conservative philanthropist Art Pope of Raleigh and Jimmy Clark of Greensboro, the owner of a heavy transportation company. Ramsey is a boat-building com...

Assembly OKs bill ending hair-braiding licenses March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan bill Wednesday that would allow people to braid hair without a barber or cosmetology license. The Black community has been pushing to deregulate braiding for years. Thirty other states currently exempt braiders from licensure, according to the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit that advocates for civil liberties. The Wisconsin bil...

GOP lawmakers joke leads Dems to file harassment complaints March 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2018, file photo, Rep. Kasey Carpenter, R-Dalton, speaks on the House floor in Atlanta. More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers said Tuesday, March 16, 2021, they are filing sexual harassment complaints, saying Carpenters joke on the House floor typifies a General Assembly that is hostile to women. The lawmakers, mostly women, want the House Ethics Committee to review the matter...

4 Democratic candidates for Va. governor meet in forum SARAH RANKIN, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6FILE-This Monday Jan. 27, 2020 shows Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince William, as she holds her son, Alex Foy, in the House chambers at the Capitol, in Richmond, Va. Foy is one of the four Democratic candidates for Virginia governor expected to participate in a candidates forum hosted by a coalition of progressive advocacy groups.Steve Helber/APShow MoreShow Less 2of6...

Washington lawmakers get good news on state revenues RACHEL LA CORTE, Associated Press March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The capitol building in Olympia, Washington. @ Didier Marti/Getty Images OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washingtons economy continues to improve, with the latest state revenue forecast showing that lawmakers will have more than $3 billion more to work with as they prepare to unveil budget plans next week, plus money the state will receive from the latest federal stimulus package....

Lawmakers clean ice, snow at Wyoming Capitol after blizzard Sign In March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8Vehicles sit covered in snow on Ridge Road in east Cheyenne, Wyo., Sunday, March 14, 2021. A powerful late winter snowstorm intensified over the central Rocky Mountains with heavy snow and wind leading to airport and road closures, power outages and avalanche warnings in parts of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. (Michael Cummo/Wyoming Tribune Eagle via AP)Michael Cummo/APShow...

CDC: West Virginia HIV wave could be tip of the iceberg JOHN RABY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8In this photo provided by Chad Cordell, signs for syringe returns are shown Saturday, March 6, 2021, at a nonprofit groups health fair in Charleston, W.Va. For years, West Virginia has had the nations highest rate of drug overdose deaths. Now the state is wrestling with another, not entirely unrelated health emergency: a spike in HIV cases related to intravenous drug use. ...

‘Qatar has taken legislative, executive steps to eliminate discrimination against women’  17 Mar 2021 - 7:00 QNA Doha: The State of Qatar participated in the Fourth Conference on Women and the 23rd session of the UN General Assembly yesterday. The State of Qatar was represented at the conference, held via video conference, by Minister of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs H E Yousef bin Mohammed Al Othman Fakhroo. In the State of Qatar’s speech, the Minister affirmed ...

HK leaders vow electoral change cooperation By GANG WEN in Hong Kong | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-03-17 07:07 Share CLOSE Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor signs her name to a petition in Hong Kong on Monday in support of the National Peoples Congress decision on improving the electoral system of the HKSAR. CHINA DAILY Leaders of the Hong Kong government and the special administra...

Maryland lawmakers approve $577M to settle HBCU lawsuit BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday to a measure to pay $577 million over 10 years to settle a federal lawsuit alleging discrimination and underfunding at the states four historically Black colleges and universities. An attorney described it as “one of the largest pro bono civil rights settlements in history.” The House voted 120-14 to send the meas...