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Axios reports: Beacon Hill is wading into the tumultuous territory of school vaccine requirements as lawmakers vet proposals to tighten school precautions against future outbreaks. The Public Health Committee meets Wednesday to consider a handful of vaccine bills, including legislation to completely eliminate the state’s religious exemption option and to standardize the student vaccine exemption system. Vaccine mandates for children …

Politico reports: President Joe Biden is eyeing redemption in North Carolina next year. Biden lost the Tar Heel state to Donald Trump by just 1.4 percentage points in 2020, and a Democrat at the top of the ticket hasn’t managed to turn North Carolina blue since Barack Obama did in 2008. Now Biden’s team sees opportunity in 2024 amid a …

Florida Politics reports: The Chair of the Florida Democratic Party and state legislators will be in Tallahassee Saturday as part of a “banned bookmobile” gambit. Nikki Fried will be joined by Reps. Angie Nixon and Michele Rayner-Goolsby, activist Thomas Kennedy, and Jen Cousins, founder of the Florida Freedom to Read Project. The event is part of MoveOn Political Action’s first …

Reuters reports: Vice President Kamala Harris criticized Florida “extremists” on Friday for backing educational guidelines that taught “revisionist history” about slavery in the United States. Florida’s board of education approved new guidelines this week with “benchmark clarifications,” including one for middle school students that states “instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their …

CBS News reports: California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced that the state would be fining the Temecula Valley Unified School District in an ongoing battle over a social studies curriculum that involves gay rights activist Harvey Milk. On Tuesday, the TVUSD board voted against the new curriculum, which has been endorsed by the state, adding to what has been …

ABC News reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday — for the first time — voted to advance legislation that would require the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a binding code of ethics, to adhere to more stringent disclosure requirements and explain recusal decisions to the public. The vote was 11-10 along party lines, with all Democrats in support and …

The Colorado Sun reports: Democrat Adam Frisch is ammassing a formidable campaign cash advantage over Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District ahead of a 2024 race that could decide which party controls Congress. Frisch outraised Boebert for the second quarter in a row, bringing in $2.6 million from April through June, more than three times the …

“Joe Biden had the largest public investment in social infrastructure and environmental programs that is actually finishing what FDR started, that LBJ expanded on, and Joe Biden is attempting to complete. Programs to address education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, transportation, Medicare, Medicaid, labor unions, and he still is working on it.” – Marjorie Taylor Greene, speaking at this …

Politico reports: President Joe Biden will make his longtime residence of Wilmington, Del., the headquarters of his 2024 campaign, he announced Tuesday. “My family’s values, my eternal optimism and my unwavering belief in the American middle class as our nation’s backbone comes from my home — from Delaware,” Biden said in a statement. “That’s why there is no better place …

Axios reports: Former President Barack Obama on Monday denounced the spread of book bans across the country as “profoundly misguided.” Book bans have become a political flashpoint between conservatives and liberals, with several Republicans using them as a rallying cry ahead of the 2024 election. In a letter to the nation’s librarians, Obama praised them for being “on the front …

Florida Politics reports: Fresh off rushing humanitarian supplies into war-torn Ukraine, former congressional candidate Phil Ehr is running to take on U.S. Sen. Rick Scott in 2024. Ehr’s campaign released a 140-second video that introduces voters to his 26-year naval career, including rescuing Cubans in the Florida Straits and his Ukrainian humanitarian efforts. The moody ad full of stormy seas …

Playbook reports: The big talker in politics today takes place in New Hampshire, where centrist group No Labels is holding a bipartisan event teasing a possible 2024 “unity” ticket — and Democrats are already freaking out that such a bid will undercut President Joe Biden and help land Donald Trump back in the White House. Adding to the intrigue, Sen. …

Spectrum News reports: President Joe Biden’s campaign announced that it raised more than $72 million from April to June with the Democratic National Committee and its joint fundraising committees, giving the Democrat’s reelection effort a major boost as the 2024 contest approaches. The campaign also reported in a release that is has $77 million in cash on hand, the highest …

Los Angeles’ ABC affiliate reports: Earlier this year, the Temecula Valley Unified School District rejected textbooks and curriculum materials for an elementary school program because it included references to slain gay-rights activist Harvey Milk. The school board president even referred to the LGBTQ icon as a “pedophile,” drawing outrage from Newsom and other leaders across the state as well as …

The New York Times reports: A New York appeals court on Thursday ordered the state’s congressional map to be redrawn, siding with Democrats in a case that could give the party a fresh chance to tilt one of the nation’s most contested House battlegrounds leftward. Wading into a long-simmering legal dispute, the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court in …

The Associated Press reports: Missouri House Minority Leader Crystal Quade is running for governor, and the Democrat from Springfield made the announcement Sunday in a campaign video that featured her bowling through skaters on a roller derby track. Quade, a social worker first elected to the House in 2016, painted herself as unafraid of rough and rowdy politics while wearing …

Mediaite reports: Gavin Newsom does not “occasionally” tune into Fox News — he watches the network primetime show’s every night and his staff have told he has an obsession, he told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki. “Do you think Democrats should still be appearing on Fox or should they not be appearing,” Psaki says in a follow up. “It contributes to the …

NBC News reports: An influencer-backed energy drink that has earned viral popularity among children is facing scrutiny from lawmakers and health experts over its potentially dangerous levels of caffeine. On Sunday, Sen. Charles Schumer called on the Food and Drug Administration to investigate PRIME, a beverage brand founded by the YouTube stars Logan Paul and KSI that has become something …

The Hill reports: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) announced Friday that he would not run for outgoing Sen. Ben Cardin’s (D-Md.) open seat in 2024, instead opting to run for reelection. “At this moment, I believe the best way for me to make the greatest difference in American politics in 2024 and beyond is this: to run for reelection to the …

Courthouse News reports: A lawsuit seeking to invalidate a nearly two-century-old Wisconsin statute outlawing abortion will proceed, after the presiding judge on Friday denied a motion to dismiss the closely watched legal action. Days after the U.S. Supreme Court upended Roe v. Wade last summer, making abortion law an issue for individual states to decide, Democratic Wisconsin Attorney General Josh …