“Lawmakers on a Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to slash unemployment benefits — part of a Republican-backed push to roll back regulations on companies and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers,” the New

“Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Friday removed the Democratic governor from any role filling future U.S. Senate vacancies — a move supporters said was unrelated to recent scrutiny about the health of the state’s senior senator, Republican leader Mitch McConnell,” the AP reports. “The GOP

“Four of South Dakota’s federally recognized Native American tribes have barred the state’s governor, Kristi Noem — a Republican whose name has been floated as a potential running mate for former President Donald Trump — from their reservations. The latest blocked Ms. Noem on Thursday,” the New

“Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill Friday stripping citizen oversight boards of their power to investigate police misconduct,” the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. “The bill, HB 601, instead allows local chiefs of police agencies to create their own ‘civilian oversight’ boards

The Tennessee House passed a bill on Thursday that would make it illegal to marry your first cousin in Tennessee, WSMV reports. But it only did so after state Rep. Gino Bulso (R), whose grandparents he said were first cousins, rose to object to the law.