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Alaska

Alaska body overrides mayor’s veto of grant to pride group | National Politics | #alaska | #politics

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — The governing body of an Alaska borough has overwhelmingly reversed the mayor’s veto of grant funding to a group that provides support to the LGBTQ+ community. The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly voted 6-1 Monday to override Mayor Rodney Dial’s veto of $1,638 in grant funding to the Ketchikan Pride Alliance, the […]

Alaska

Governors diverge on gun control, school security efforts | National Politics | #alaska | #politics

Many Republican governors are emphasizing a different solution: more security at schools. After the massacre Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, The Associated Press asked governors across the U.S. whether they believed their states have an obligation to reduce mass shootings and violence committed with guns and, if so, how to do that. […]

Alabama

Midterm updates | Nguyen in runoff in Democratic SoS primary | National News | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

ATLANTA — State Rep. Bee Nguyen is advancing to a runoff in the Democratic primary for Georgia secretary of state. It was too early to tell which of the other four Democratic candidates she will face in the June 21 contest. They are Floyd Griffin, a state senator and former mayor of the city of […]

Alaska

Alaska bill seeks to bar hair discrimination in schools | Govt-and-politics | #alaska | #politics

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska school districts could not adopt dress codes that bar students from wearing hairstyles associated with race or from wearing traditional tribal regalia at graduation ceremonies under legislation passed by state lawmakers on Wednesday. The bill, as it passed the Senate in March, also would have restricted businesses from adopting workplace […]

Alabama

Justice Dept files a challenge to Alabama transgender law | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging an Alabama law making it a felony for doctors to treat transgender people under age 19 with puberty-blockers and hormones to affirm their gender identity By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press April 30, 2022, 1:07 AM • 4 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article MONTGOMERY, Ala. […]

Alaska

Abortion draft puts unusual public pressure on Supreme Court | Politics | #alaska | #politics

WASHINGTON — The traditionally insular Supreme Court is about to face the full force of public pressure and abortion politics as justices make a final decision on whether to throw out the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. The justices are entering a politically explosive new era, drafting what may well be the most consequential opinion […]

Alaska

Alaska Nazi prison gang members convicted in grisly death | Politics | #alaska | #politics

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Five people affiliated with a Nazi prison gang, including one who legally changed his name to Filthy Fuhrer, have been convicted in the grisly death of a member whose gang tattoo was cut off his rib cage with a hot knife before he was shot and his body was burned, a […]