Biden commutes the sentences of 31 nonviolent drug offenders
"These individuals, who have been successfully serving sentences on home confinement, have demonstrated a commitment to rehabilitation," the White House said.
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"These individuals, who have been successfully serving sentences on home confinement, have demonstrated a commitment to rehabilitation," the White House said.
The Minnesota Senate on Friday is expected to pass a bill that would legalize recreational cannabis. Ahead of the vote, GOP lawmakers spoke about their take on the bill.
Legalizing cannabis is now at the top of the docket for the Minnesota senate.
The South Carolina bill would have banned many pregnancies at conception, while the Nebraska bill would have done so at about six weeks.
Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday signed three bills into law that he says show freedom, decency, and compassion.
Jerry Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show unleashed strippers, homewreckers and skinheads to brawl and spew obscenities on weekday afternoons, has died.
A federal judge says former U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes was not defamed by articles published by Esquire magazine about his family's Iowa dairy farm.
North Dakota's governor vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have required the state's librarians under threat of criminal penalty to screen sexually explicit materials from children.
North Dakota's Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a bill that limits access to bathrooms, locker rooms and showers for transgender and gender-nonconforming people in several state facilities.
Senior administration officials said the move is meant to deter future wrongful detentions as families call on the U.S. government to do more.
One bill makes Minnesota a refuge state for transgender people seeking gender-affirming medical care. The second one bans conversion therapy, and the third is an abortion shield law that protects people seeking or providing abortions in Minnesota.
As the recreational cannabis bill makes its way through the Minnesota Legislature, the Minneapolis mayor is calling it a "long overdue step that needs to take place."
The Minnesota House passed a health budget bill late Wednesday that lawmakers say will lower health care costs and improve access to care.
The U.S. will set up migrant processing centers in Latin America, increase deportations and expand legal migration pathways to reduce the number of unlawful border crossings.
The "Democracy for the People Act" passed on a party line vote, 34 to 33. Gov. Tim Walz is expected to sign the bill into law once it hits his desk.
