A freshman legislator has started openly carrying her .38 revolver on the floor of the Virginia state Senate. State Sen. Amanda Chase (R) told The Washington Post that she has begun wearing her revolver visibly strapped to her hip after a colleague was confronted by a group of protesters. “I’ve had people get in my face. I’ve had people […]
Birth certificates in New Jersey will soon include a third, gender-neutral option. Beginning on Friday, residents in the state will be permitted to amend the gender listed on their birth certificates, according to NBC News. Residents will have the option of choosing between male, female or nonbinary. Under current law, residents in New Jersey can only amend the gender listed on their […]
A Connecticut man has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the city of Bridgeport after he was rejected from a firefighter job for his medical marijuana use. James Bulerin III claims he was rejected after testing positive for marijuana to treat an undisclosed medical condition, according to the Connecticut Post. The lawsuit says that Bulerin passed all the eligibility […]
Critics are accusing an Indiana state senator proposing to roll back the state’s child labor laws of a potential conflict of interest because the lawmaker employs hundreds of minors at his business. State Sen. Chip Perfect (R), the CEO of Perfect North Slopes ski resort, filed a Senate bill to scrap the laws that bar […]
Police in Northern California responded to a “mass casualty overdose” situation on Saturday that resulted in one death and a dozen people hospitalized. Authorities said that the incident was caused by exposure to the deadly opioid fentanyl, which also affected two responding officers, according to NBC News. Mike O’Brien, a police captain in Chico, Calif., […]
A bill that passed the Indiana Senate would require all students to pass the U.S. citizenship exam usually administered to immigrants in order to graduate from high school. The Times of Northwest Indiana reports that Republican state Senators Dennis Kruse and Jeff Raatz proposed the legislation after growing frustrated with high schoolers knowledge of government […]
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit claiming that South Carolina’s antiquated voting machines infringed upon residents’ right to vote. U.S. District Court Judge Michelle Childs said the machines could impose “some conceivable risk” to the state’s ability to accurately count votes, but the suit did not prove there was a “substantial” threat to […]
A city lawmaker in New York is refusing to apologize for saying that the city government is “controlled by the homosexual community.” Bronx city council member Ruben Diaz Sr., described as a conservative Democrat, made the comment while speaking on the Spanish-language radio program, “El Desahogo,” last week, according to The New York Daily News. City […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Tuesday that the city will begin guaranteeing health care to residents, regardless of their immigration status or their ability to pay. NBC New York reported that there are roughly 600,000 uninsured residents in the city. The new program is projected to cover people who use the emergency room […]
A campaign aimed at decriminalizing the use of psychedelic mushrooms says it has acquired enough signatures to appear on the Denver municipal ballot in May. The Denver for Psilocybin campaign told local news outlet NBC 9 that it had collected more than 8,000 total signatures, well above the 4,729 valid signatures needed to make it […]