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Community members in support of equity conversations in schools hold signs on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, during the Fort Worth ISD board meeting in Fort Worth. After months of back-and-forth on critical race theory, Gov. Greg Abbott signed off on a bill that bans the concept from Texas classrooms on race and slavery. Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill that aims to further ban critical race ...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a nearly $2 billion border security funding bill that will nearly triple the amount the state spends on border defense in the next two-year budget cycle. “It is the federal government’s job to secure our border, but the Biden administration ha...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges struck down the state's latest photo voter identification law on Friday, agreeing with minority voters that Republicans rammed through rules tainted by racial bias as a way to remain in power. Two of the three trial judges declared the December 2018 law is unconstitutional, even though it was designed to implement a photo voter ID mandate added to th...

By David Gerard, the author of the book Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and the cryptocurrency and blockchain news blog of the same name. Marvin Recinos/AFP via Getty Images A Chivo Wallet Bitcoin ATM burns during a protest against Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's policies on Independence Day in San Salvador on Sept. 15. On June 5, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele declared that bitco...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) - A panel of judges have tossed out Republicans’ lastest effort to require voters to show IDs at the polls. In a split 2-1 vote, the Superior Court judges ruled on Friday that the 2018 law is unconstitutional because it discriminates against African Americans. State lawmakers passed the bill after voters approved a constitutional amendment requiring a photo ID to vote. Th...

Senate Bill 9, promoted by Senate leader Toni Atkins and supported by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, both Democrats, would make it easier to build smaller second units on what are now single-family properties. That could include up to four units, such as duplexes or homes with attached living units, if the lot is split into two equal parcels under the bill. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Grou...

The legislative session has ended and Governor Newsom is expected to sign into law S.B. 4 and A.B. 14. These bills stand as the final pieces of the state’s new broadband infrastructure program. With a now-estimated $7.5 billion assembled between federal and state funds, California has the resources it needs to largely close the digital divide in the coming years. This program allows local cit...

With the recall behind him, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has begun working through the hundreds of bills that piled up on his desk during the campaign. On Thursday, he turned to housing, signing a pair of measures to speed construction in the state. The first, called Senate Bill 9, would essentially eliminate single-family zoning by allowing duplexes in most neighborhoods across the state....

(CNN)A new fence, an information-sharing alert and ramped-up airport security are just a few of the ways law enforcement is preparing to prevent another deadly insurrection ahead of Saturday's rally aimed at showing support for those arrested in connection with January 6. Criticism of the security failures around the US Capitol riot last winter has loomed large in the minds of federal officia...

KWCH Car Crash generic (kwch) GREENWOOD COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) - A motorcycle collided with a marked law enforcement vehicle responding to another crash in Greenwood County Thursday. The motorcyclist, identified as 58-year-old Karl Sturn from Missouri, died in the crash. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the law enforcement vehicle was turning left onto U400 when the motorcycle, going east...