State Legislatures

Virginia Gov.-elect, Lt. Gov Ralph Northam, center, walks down the reviewing stand with Lt. Gov-elect, Justin Fairfax, right, and Attorney General Mark Herring, as they participate in a walk through for their Saturday Inauguration at the Capitol in Richmond, Va.

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Infanticidal virtue-signaling sparked Virginia Democrats’ self-immolation

Tiana Lowe Doescher · February 7, 2019 1:43 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens to a question about Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., as he speaks to the media after a Republican policy luncheon, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

McConnell dares Democrats to block ‘born alive’ bill

Susan Ferrechio · February 4, 2019 8:42 pm

In this Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, file photo, Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during an appearance with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton where both Democrats called for codifying abortion rights into New York State law during a joint appearance at Barnard College in New York.

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Conservatives propose reasonable abortion waiting period and abortion advocates freak out

Kimberly Ross · January 29, 2019 2:52 am

Ohio Gov. John Kasich sits for an interview with the Associated Press at the Ohio Governor's Residence and Heritage Garden, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, in Columbus.

Ohio lawmakers override John Kasich’s gun bill veto

Claude Thompson · December 28, 2018 3:24 pm

Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a former 2016 Presidential hopeful, gestures during a visit to New England College in Henniker, N.H., Tuesday, April 3, 2018.

John Kasich signs bill that would prevent most second-trimester abortions

Kimberly Leonard · December 21, 2018 9:32 pm

Signs have gone up naming a section of a Los Angeles-area freeway as the President Barack H. Obama Highway, seen from Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018.

Stretch of California freeway renamed ‘President Barack H. Obama Highway’

Dominick Mastrangelo · December 21, 2018 5:19 pm

Rochelle Thuy Nguyen greets her daughter Hannah Lay at their home.

Nevada becomes first US state with majority-female legislature

Katelyn Caralle · December 19, 2018 4:03 am

Congress won’t reform disability, so let the states have a go at it

Collin Roth · December 14, 2018 5:00 am

Pennsylvania GOP refuses to seat Democrat until she proves she lived in the state

Katelyn Caralle · December 6, 2018 8:41 am

August A. Busch Sr., center, son of the founder of the nation's largest brewery, and his two sons seal the first case of beer off the line for air express delivery to President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the bottling plant of the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, Mo., at midnight on the day of the repeal of Prohibition, April 6, 1933.

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Enjoy Prohibition Repeal Day, but these crazy alcohol laws show we have a long way to go

Jarrett Dieterle · December 4, 2018 5:00 am

Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, attends a House veto session.

Illinois Democrat says she wanted to pump lethal ‘broth of Legionella’ into Republican colleague’s water supply

Caitlin Yilek · December 1, 2018 3:57 am

Razor grass and pro-choice signs limit the view of patients entering the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, June 30, 2015.

Judge strikes down Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban

Kimberly Leonard · November 20, 2018 10:34 pm