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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool) ** FILE **

Fulton County officials testify that they don’t control Fani Willis’ spending, hiring in Trump case

By Jeff Amy - Associated Press

Special prosecutor Nathan Wade looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. The hearing is to determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the case because of a relationship with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool) ** FILE **

Georgia Senate panel scrutinizes Nathan Wade’s role, high pay in Trump election interference case

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - A buffalo can be seen through the fencing of its enclosure as it grazes at Wildwood Park & Zoo in Marshfield, Wis., Feb. 22, 2015, just after sunset. Wisconsin zoos could escape state oversight if the operations earn accreditation from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, an organization that animal rights advocates have blasted for having what they argue are weak animal treatment standards, under a Republican bill heard on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. (Dan Young/The Wausau Daily Herald via AP, File)

Wisconsin Republicans consider bill to weaken oversight of roadside zoos

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Gigi Sohn, who is President Joe Biden's nominee to serve on the Federal Communications Commission, testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, during her nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.( Pete Marovich/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Biden’s FCC nominee counting on Democratic Senate majority to advance languishing nomination

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Trump Russia Collusion Hoax Hanging by a Lie Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Senate committee keeps phony Trump-Russia collusion hoax alive

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this June 8, 2021, file photo, Tracy Stone-Manning listens during a confirmation hearing for her to be the director of the Bureau of Land Management, during a hearing of the Senate Energy and National Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, could set a floor vote on her nomination as early as Sept. 30. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) **FILE**

Schumer sets up floor vote on Tracy Stone-Manning as Republicans gird for clash

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

NC Senate committee retools state worker records bill

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2020 file photo, an election worker stamps a vote-by-mail ballot dropped off by a voter before placing it in an official ballot drop box before at the Miami-Dade County Board of Elections in Doral, Fla. Democrats, voting rights advocates and the county officials responsible for running elections in Florida appeared powerless to halt moves by Republican lawmakers on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, to tighten the ways in which citizens can cast ballots. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Florida Republicans barrel ahead with rewriting voting rules

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN - Associated Press

In this July 27, 2018 photo provided by Daryl Abbas, Arrow, a cat whose death has inspired legislation to put cats on equal footing with dogs, at least when they are run over, sits in Salem, N.H. Arrow's owner, New Hampshire State Rep. Daryl Abbas, is the sponsor of a bill that would require drivers who injure or kill cats to notify police or the animals' owners. The reporting requirement already is in place for dogs. (Daryl Abbas via AP)

Lawmakers fighting like cats and dogs? Not over this bill

By HOLLY RAMER - Associated Press

Senate panel revises bill creating open-records restrictions

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, June 29, 2020, file photo, a Boeing 737 Max jet heads to a landing at Boeing Field following a test flight in Seattle. A U.S. House committee is questioning whether Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration have recognized problems that caused two deadly 737 Max jet crashes and if either organization will be willing to make significant changes to fix them. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Panel’s report blasts Boeing, FAA for crashes, seeks reforms

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers discusses a bill on Thursday, March 5, 2020, in Frankfort, Ky. Stivers’ bill to undo Gov. Andy Beshear’s reorganization of the Kentucky state school board won initial approval from the Senate Education Committee. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner)

Lawmakers advance bill to undo remake of state school board

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2020 file photo, Del. Lee Ware, R-Powhatan, left, talks with Del. Terry Kilgore, R-Scott, during the House session at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. Ware is trying to pass a bill adding new hurdles for Dominion Energy before the utility can pass along the costs of transporting gas in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to its Virginia ratepayers. Ware says the bill will clearly frame a question he's always wanted answered: whether the massive infrastructure project is necessary or is “entrepreneurial” on lead developer Dominion's part. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Bill aims to answer pipeline question: ‘Is this necessary?’

By SARAH RANKIN and ALAN SUDERMAN - Associated Press

Should Washington stop building roads? Some think so

By MIKE LINDBLOM - Associated Press

Bills in Washington Legislature to allow sports betting

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS - Associated Press