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Swing-state voters affected by COVID-19 economic crisis are concerned about retirement plans

By Saul Anuzis

People demonstrate at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. on Friday, June 19, 2020, to mark Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take control of the state and ensure all enslaved people be freed, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Minnesota lawmakers fail to reach deal on revamping policing

By JEFF BAENEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, file photo, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks on the rotunda about human trafficking during the opening day of the year for the general session of the state legislature in Atlanta. Georgia’s Republican governor and first lady have announced Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, a slate of legislative measures they want to see enacted this year to combat human trafficking. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

Some parts of Kemp’s anti-gang push advance, others stall

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-Baxter talks with Senate Minority Leader Susan Kent, DFL-Woodbury on the Senate Floor before the start of a session in St. Paul, Minn. Friday, June 12, 2020. Gazelka said &quot;Minnesota has the opportunity to lead the way for the whole nation for reconciliation of the races and some of the problems we’re addressing. Let’s begin here.” (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)

Police accountability bills stall in Minnesota Legislature

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press

Georgia Lt. Gov Geoff Duncan speaks Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Atlanta, while proposing his own version of a hate crimes law for the state. Duncan is calling on lawmakers to create a free-standing hate crime and to protect many categories from bias crimes, including people victimized because of their culture and their status in exercising First Amendment rights including worship, free speech, free press, assembly or petition of government. (Riley Bunch/The Daily Times via AP)

Georgia senators say hate crimes law should protect police

By JEFF AMY and BEN NADLER - Associated Press

House members are separated by glass partitions due to the coronavirus pandemic during a House session Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Tennessee advances 6-week abortion ban, lawsuit filed

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI - Associated Press

Foes say Missouri ballot plan allows partisan gerrymandering

By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press

A healthcare worker administers a routine COVID-19 test to state Sen. Mimi Steward, of Bernalillo, on Monday, June 15, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M.. Legislators and state workers were tested in a parking garage the state Capitol ahead of a special legislative session called in response to the budget crunch caused by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Legislature reins in election reform proposal

By MORGAN LEE and CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press

People hold for a Black Lives Matter rally at the Caddo Parish Courthouse in Shreveport, La., Sunday, May 31, 2020. (Henrietta Wildsmith/The Shreveport Times via AP)

Plan to study police tactics, bias in Louisiana near passage

By MELINDA DESLATTE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2018, file photo, Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, talks with Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Students at California State University, the nation's largest four-year public university system, will need to take courses in ethnic studies under legislation advanced on Thursday, June 18, 2020, a move by lawmakers to impose new graduation requirements that the colleges want to set themselves. &quot;For over 400 years, we have sanitized and white washed history,&quot; said Sen. Steven Bradford, who presented the legislation authored by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Ethnic studies to be required at largest US public college

By CUNEYT DIL - Associated Press

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, center, takes a walking tour of some of the artworks commissioned by Springboard for the Arts along University Avenue in St. Paul, Minn., Monday, June 8, 2020. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP, Pool)

Minnesota Democrats press GOP for sweeping policing changes

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., second from left, and others, speaks at a news conference to announce a Republican police reform bill on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Senate Republicans unveil police overhaul bill

By Gabriella Muñoz and David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Democrats, Republicans set for clash on policing overhaul push

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Nancy Pelosi slams Senate GOP police package: ‘So-called Justice Act is not action’

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Temperature checks to return at N.C. legislature entrances

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Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., listens during a virtual Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing, Tuesday, May 12, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Senate ethics panel drops inquiry into Loeffler stock trades

By RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press

In this Aug. 3, 2019 photo Kentucky republican candidate for Secretary of State Mike Adams addresses the audience gathered at the Fancy Farm Picnic in Fancy Farm, Ky. Results from Kentucky's unprecedented primary election, with widespread mail-in absentee voting amid a global pandemic, are expected to drag out for days after voting ends next Tuesday, keeping some candidates and their supporters in suspense. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

For some, suspense will linger past Kentucky election

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan adjourns the Senate Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, in Atlanta. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) ** FILE **

Duncan promises hate crimes bill as House balks at inaction

By JEFF AMY and BEN NADLER - Associated Press

N. Carolina Medicaid bill delays managed care until mid-2021

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Gov. Roy Cooper heads back after delivering a briefing on North Carolina's coronavirus pandemic response Monday, Jun. 15, 2020, at the N.C. Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh, N.C. (Casey Toth/The News &amp; Observer via AP)

N.C. lawmakers push reopen bills, virus liability protection

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press