Kerry Confirmed By Senate Colleagues As Secretary Of State

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• Illinois Junk Fee Ban Act passes Senate, heads to Pritzker for signature

  

• Funding released for Shoshone water rights in western Colorado

  

• All Georgia state prisons placed on lockdown after altercation at Dooly State Prison

  

• Georgia Republicans renew scrutiny of Stacey Abram's New Georgia Project as questions grow over election oversight

  

• Everything you need to know about the May 26 Texas runoff elections

  

• DOJ charges 15 in $90 million Minnesota Medicaid fraud schemes

  

• Michigan lawmakers prepare to give Mackinac Island more oversight on ferry fares