New Mexico's Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared gun violence a public health emergency in response to multiple recent shooting deaths in the state.
On international climate agreements, Trump reaffirmed his stance, declaring he would "once again exit the horrendously unfair Paris Climate Accords" and stand against "the radical left’s Green New Deal policies."
In a landmark case, the Spreckels Union School District in Salinas, California, has agreed to a $100,000 settlement with a mother and her daughter, who accused staff at Buena Vista Middle School of secretly guiding the 11-year-old girl to transition to a male identity.
In a recent revelation that may seem ironic to some, New Jersey's Democratic Governor Phil Murphy stated that New Jersey can no longer accommodate more illegal immigrants, despite his 2017 campaign pledge to transform the entire state into a "sanctuary state."
In November 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that MosquitoMate, Inc. had submitted plans to infect live male mosquitoes with a bacteria called "Wolbachia pipientis," which enhances WNV infection.