Tag: State governments
Democrats seizing growing power to run for statewide offices
ATLANTA — For more than a decade, Georgia Democrats struggled to lure highly qualified, big-name candidates to run for statewide office. With Republicans firmly...
US vaccine surplus grows by the day as expiration dates loom
In Tennessee and North Carolina, demand for the COVID-19 vaccine has slowed down so much that they have given millions of doses back to...
Gov says Kentucky succeeded by putting science over politics
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Friday declared his state’s deadly fight against COVID-19 a “success story” as he prepared to end...
2 women vie to make history as Virginia lieutenant governor
RICHMOND, Va. — It's been nearly three decades since Virginia's only woman to win a statewide race held political office.
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N. Carolina Senate considers banning Down syndrome abortions
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina senators are set to consider a proposal Tuesday that would bar women from getting abortions on the basis of...
Legislators, students push for K-12 Asian American studies
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When the Asian American Student Union at a Connecticut high school organized a Zoom call following the killing of six Asian...
N. Carolina Senate considers banning Down syndrome abortions
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina senators are set to consider a proposal Tuesday that would bar women from getting abortions on the basis of...
Legislators, students push for K-12 Asian American studies
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When the Asian American Student Union at a Connecticut high school organized a Zoom call following the killing of six Asian...
US officials extend expiration dates on J&J vaccine doses
WASHINGTON — Johnson & Johnson said Thursday that U.S. regulators extended the expiration date on millions of doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by an...
3rd guilty plea in South Carolina nuclear project failure
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A former official for the contractor hired to build two South Carolina nuclear reactors that were never completed pleaded guilty Thursday...
