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Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio talks to defensive tackle Jonathan Allen during an NFL football practice at Inova Sports Performance Center in Ashburn, Va., Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Commanders’ stadium pursuit stumbles as Virginia, D.C. officials pull plug on negotiations

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

FILE - Workers begin digging a tunnel to connect the new General Assembly building to the Capitol, March 2, 2022, in Richmond, Va. Dena Potter, a spokeswoman for the state agency overseeing the project, said the Capitol was briefly evacuated on March 14, 2022, after a contractor working on the $25 million tunnel “inadvertently” poked through the ceiling of a subterranean Capitol extension causing debris to fall into the visitors center cafe. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Virginia lawmakers send Youngkin compromise state budget

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

FILE - The Tennessee House of Representatives meets Oct. 27, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. A Tennessee Republican lawmaker’s push to create a new marriage contract specifically designed to exclude same-sex couples is dead for this year’s annual legislative session amid concerns expressed by both Republicans and Democrats. Rep. Tom Leatherwood moved the legislation to summer study with the vote of a House committee Wednesday, April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Bill limiting shackles on pregnant inmates heads to governor

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

GOP sees opportunity in 2022 election to defeat Blumenthal

By Susan Haigh - Associated Press

Maryland voters cast their ballots on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 at the Pip Moyer Recreation Center in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Brian Witte) **FILE**

Maryland’s highest court moves state primary to July 19

By Brian Witte - Associated Press

A woman holds a sign at a rally in Times Square to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)

China, India abstain from UN vote to hold emergency session on Russia’s invasion

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Phil Strach, an attorney for Republican legislators, questions state Rep. Destin Hall, a top Republican redistricting official, during a partisan gerrymandering trial on Jan. 5, 2022, at Campbell University School of Law in Raleigh, N.C. A divided North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the state's new maps for congressional and General Assembly seats Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, declaring that state courts had authority to throw out lines engineered to secure a long-term Republican advantage in an otherwise closely divided state. The court's decision reversed a ruling last month from a panel of three trial judges and declared partisan gerrymandering found in the redistricting approved by the legislature in November violated several provisions in the North Carolina Constitution. (Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, File)

North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down redistricting maps

By Gary D. Robertson - Associated Press

This Jan. 14, 2013, file photo shows a gavel sitting on a desk inside a courtroom. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Indiana’s high court upholds state’s ‘revenge porn’ law

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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announces his upcoming budget proposal during a news conference inside The Market at 25th in Richmond, Va., on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) ** FILE **

Last Northam budget proposal includes tax relief, pay raises

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., smiles as she prepares to speak in Richmond, Va., Oct. 31, 2021. Draft maps for new congressional districts in Virginia would provide Democrats a strong chance to win six or seven of the states 11 seats, but they also draw Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger out of her Richmond-area district. (AP Photo/Steve Helber/FILE)

New congressional districts could win Dems important seats in Virginia

By Mattew Barakat - Associated Press

Maryland's Republican Gov. Larry Hogan shows a copy of the redrawn congressional map approved by the General Assembly this week, that is crossed out in red, during a news conference where he announced his veto of the plan in Annapolis on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. The General Assembly, which is controlled by Democrats, has the votes to override the governor's veto. (AP Photo/Brian Witte) **FILE**

Hogan vetoes congressional map; override votes upcoming

By Brian Witte - Associated Press

UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid speaks at a high-level meeting on global road safety to meet the global SDG target of halving road traffic fatalities by 2030 at the United Nations Headquarters on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 in New York. (Andrew Kelly/AP Images for FIA Foundation)

UN delays action on Myanmar and Afghanistan’s bid for seats

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

FILE - A youth receives a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine during a vaccination drive at University Stadium in Mexico City, July 23, 2021. On Monday, the U.S. will implement a new air travel policy to allow in foreign citizens who have completed a course of a vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration or the World Health Organization. That leaves people in Mexico, Hungary, Russia and elsewhere who received the non-approved Russian Sputnik V vaccine or the China-produced CanSino vaccine ineligible to board U.S.-bound flights. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Federal COVID shot opt-out not as clear as Democrats claim

By John O'Connor - Associated Press

Texas state Rep. Jessica Gonzales speaks during a news conference in Austin, Texas, on early Monday, May 31, 2021, after House Democrats pulled off a dramatic, last-ditch walkout and blocked one of the most restrictive voting bills in the U.S. from passing before a midnight deadline. (AP Photo/Acacia Coronado)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to withhold pay of Democrats who walked out

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, speaks to the media, attends a press conference about the end of a 5+1 Meeting on Cyprus, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, April 29, 2021. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Antonio Guterres lays out vision for second term as UN chief

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Tennessee Legislature adjourns for the year

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI - Associated Press

In this Jan. 11, 2021, photo, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita speaks in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) **FILE**

Indiana constitutional fight means tussle among GOP leaders

By TOM DAVIES - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2021 file photo, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb delivers his State of the State address virtually, in Indianapolis. Gov. Holcomb asked a court Tuesday, April 27, 2021, to block a new law that legislators passed giving themselves more authority to intervene when the state’s chief executive declares an emergency. The measure establishes a new process under which legislative leaders can call the General Assembly into what it calls an “emergency session.” The governor’s lawsuit argues that the Legislature is “usurping a power given exclusively to the governor” under the Indiana Constitution to call lawmakers into a special session. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings File)

Indiana attorney general wants governor’s lawsuit blocked

By TOM DAVIES - Associated Press

‘Right to Work’ amendment heads to Tennessee voters

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Audit: Hurdles slowed COVID-19 grants to poor families in NC

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press