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Read More »Virginia court rejects challenge to 11 districts
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the state’s 2011 redistricting process and found that 11 challenged state House and ...
Read More »Minnesota sues Arizona-based opioid maker
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The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has agreed to a $210 million settlement with 450 victims of clergy sexual abuse as part of its ...
Read More »Wisconsin Justice Abrahamson won’t run again
MADISON, Wis. — Shirley Abrahamson, the longest-serving Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in state history and the first woman to serve on the high court, said ...
Read More »Lawsuit challenges Iowa’s voter ID law
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa’s new voter identification law violates the state constitution and will make it harder for some people to cast a ballot, ...
Read More »Alabama ordered to reveal lethal injection details
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The state of Alabama must reveal details of its lethal injection procedure, a federal judge has ruled, granting the request of news ...
Read More »Trump `boiling the frog’ with DOJ attacks, critics say
Donald Trump’s regular attacks on the U.S. Justice Department, including accusations that the FBI spied on his campaign, strike some critics as “boiling the frog” ...
Read More »Once a reluctant Lt. Gov., Fischbach joins Pawlenty campaign
Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty has chosen the state’s newly sworn-in lieutenant governor as his running mate. Pawlenty announced Thursday that Republican Lt. Gov. Michelle Fischbach ...
Read More »Russian’s da Vinci windfall undercuts U.S. probe
Federal investigators in New York spent more than a year building a case against a Swiss art dealer over alleged improper mark-ups in the sale ...
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