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The bill now moves to the appropriations committee, then to the assembly floor for a vote.

The bill passed in a 23–16 vote.

This week, a federal judge in Florida finally struck down a federal mask mandate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

President Joe Biden promised that oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would curb record-high gas prices. But some of that oil is now going to Europe.

The Walt Disney Company has labeled famous characters Tinker Bell and Captain Hook as "potentially problematic" for certain stereotypes.

Current law has given Disney special status for 55 years.

Mexico has disbanded a select anti-narcotics unit that for a quarter of a century worked hand-in-hand with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to tackle organized crime, two sources said, in a major blow to bilateral security cooperation.

Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, intensifying assaults on cities and towns along a front hundreds of miles long in what officials on both sides described as a new phase of the war.

An attorney for the town of Elizabethton, Tennessee, is defending the presence of three crosses on public land after atheists demanded their removal.

Black Lives Matter PAC siphoned away almost all of its cash reserves during the first three months of 2022, with the largest chunk of funds going to a firm owned by a BLM board member.