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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    Gov. Gretchen Whitmer calls special election for state Senate seat that could split Michigan chamber

    Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called a special election Friday for a state Senate seat that has been vacant for nearly nine months, setting up a contest that could let Republicans hobble Whitmer’s agenda in the Democrat’s final year in office. The 35th Senate District has been unrepresented in the Legislature all year after its former lawmaker, Democrat Kristen McDonald Rivet, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November. Democrats now hold a slim 19-18 majority in the chamber

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  • USThe Wrap

    Mike Johnson Has Awkward Response When Newsom Points Out Louisiana Murder Rate Is Worse Than California

    Mike Johnson got a bit awkward when asked about the crime rates in his home state of Louisiana after Gov. Gavin Newsom called him out

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  • USKCPQ

    Bones found during FBI's Travis Decker search in WA forest

    The FBI reportedly found bones while searching for Travis Decker in a large area of the Leavenworth forest.

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  • BusinessReuters

    Southwest Airlines begins flying first plane with secondary cockpit barrier

    (Reuters) -Southwest Airlines began Friday flying its first jet with a secondary barrier to the flight deck designed to prevent intrusions. The plane - a Boeing 737 MAX 8 which was delivered in recent days - took off Friday afternoon from Phoenix to Denver, the airline said. Secondary barriers -- long sought after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that exposed the risks of inadequate flight detect protection -- are crucial to aviation safety, pilots unions have argued.

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  • USThe Coloradoan

    Is my neighbor allowed to park in front of my house? Here's what Colorado law says

    If seeing an unexpected vehicle parked right in front of your home is an unwelcome sight, here's what Colorado law says.

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  • USThe Daily Beast

    Tina Smith had no patience for the health secretary’s suggestion that antidepressants were behind the school shooting in Minnesota.

    Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith excoriated Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for suggesting that antidepressants could have caused the deadly shooting at a church in Minneapolis. “I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do,” Smith wrote. “Just shut up. Stop peddling bulls--t. You should be fired.” The Democratic senator was responding to comments Kennedy on Fox & Friends Thursday, where the health

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  • USReuters

    Bondi fires Justice Department employee for gesturing at National Guard

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi fired a Department of Justice official on Friday for making a vulgar gesture to members of the National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., on her way to work. "Today, I took action to terminate a DOJ employee for inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members in DC," Bondi posted on X, responding to a New York Post story about the firing.

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