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Courthouse News reports: A federal judge on Tuesday blocked enforcement of Iowa’s state law that removes books that have LGBTQ themes with references to sexual acts from school libraries. U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher, a Joe Biden appointee, took back the case after an Eighth Circuit panel reversed a preliminary injunction he issued in December 2023. The earlier injunction blocked …

Louisville’s NPR affiliate reports: More than 90 faith leaders are asking Governor Beshear to veto a House joint resolution that would move a 10 Commandments monument from a Fraternal Order of Eagles post in Hopkinsville to the grounds of the state capitol. Zina Merkin is with Interfaith Alliance of the Bluegrass, which has members from nearly a dozen religious faiths …

MARTHA KELNER: Should the Defense Secretary — MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: What country are you from? KELNER: The UK. GREENE: Okay, we don’t give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don’t you go back to your country where you have a major migrant problem? KELNER: Do you— GREENE: No, no, no, you should care about your own borders. …

“They’re jacked up. When I see them in the hall here in Washington, they’re hostile. Their eyes are bugged out of their head. And I’m sure when you take Trump, you can multiply that times ten with their hostility.  “So it is a dangerous situation, and we are concerned about that because President Trump is very accessible to the media.  …

“I would caution my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to refrain from making fun of the Gulf of America because next up may end up being the District of America that we are working on. So just, you know, keep the jokes at bay, and maybe we’ll just stick with the Gulf of America for now.” – …

Fox News reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hit back at a Democratic lawmaker Tuesday who appeared to mock him for being in a wheelchair, saying such remarks will only leave the party “in the dust” come future elections. “It’s another day and another disaster by the Democrats. The reality is they have no vision, no policy. They have nothing to …

The Florida Phoenix reports: A hotly contested proposal that would prohibit the use of preferred pronouns in state and local government workplaces, and limit gender identity training for state and local government employees, won approval in its first committee stop on Tuesday. Labeled the “Freedom of Conscience in the Workplace Act” (SB 440), the measure says that an employee in …

The Associated Press reports: Governors in several Republican-led states are pressing the Trump administration to cut strings attached to their federal education money, a goal conservatives have long dreamed of that now appears within reach as President Donald Trump moves to dismantle the Education Department. Iowa put itself forward as a test case this month, asking the Education Department to …

Fox News reports: A GOP lawmaker is moving to have Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, formally rebuked by the House of Representatives for appearing to mock Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s disability. Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, Crockett’s fellow delegation member, told Fox News Digital he would introduce a censure resolution against the Democratic lawmaker imminently. “The story of our great governor of …

NBC News reports: Facing pressure from his right flank to take on judges who have ruled against President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Tuesday floated the possibility of Congress eliminating some federal courts. It’s the latest attack from Republicans on the federal judiciary, as courts have blocked a series of actions taken by the Trump administration. In addition …

CNN reports: Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wage and often undesirable jobs. Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature have a potential solution: children. The state’s legislature on Tuesday is set to debate …

Minneapolis’s CBS affiliate reports: Federal investigators are revealing new information about former state Sen. Justin Eichorn, who is accused of soliciting a teenage girl for sex, including his alleged attempts to cover up his tracks. At his first court appearance last week, Eichorn told a judge he didn’t have a firearm at the residence, but newly filed court documents show …

Phil Williams reports at Nashville’s CBS affiliate: Questions center on U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles and the stories that he tells about how he spent money from his campaign. Among our findings: tens of thousands of dollars that supposedly went to companies that do not appear to be in the business of providing the services for which Ogles claimed the money …

“I thought what the secretary of defense just said, Laura, was an outstanding statement and, listen, we don’t know how much of this is accurate or not, but it looks like even if everything The Atlantic reported is true, it’s the president’s advisers discussing among themselves options they might recommend to the president, and nobody can deny the success of …

The Bangor Daily News reports: U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said it was “extremely troubling” that senior officials under President Donald Trump texted about war plans in a group chat that inadvertently included a journalist who wrote about the episode in a shocking report Monday. The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote the story that went up Monday afternoon, starting …

“The administration, as I understand, I just was with the president in the Oval Office, just now, the administration is addressing what happened. Apparently an inadvertent phone number made it onto that thread. They’re gonna track that down and make sure that doesn’t happen again. What you did see what top-level officials doing their job, doing it well, and executing …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis likes DOGE so much he ripped it off for his own policy proposals this year, starting a DOGE Task Force of his own. But he’s voicing some criticisms of how the federal effort is operating. During a talk in Idaho, DeSantis cited what he called a “dustup about the National Weather Service,” referring to …

The Dallas Morning News reports: Republicans in the Legislature filed more than 80 bills that would affect LGBTQ Texans, including many focused on public schools that would impact students, teachers and staff. Republican lawmakers filed a range of bills to ban teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity, limit the ability of teachers and students to discuss sex and gender …

Arizona Capitol Media reports: A Republican from Surprise has abandoned his bid to enact a measure that would have made it illegal to display any but a select list of flags from government buildings. Rep. Nick Kupper had managed to usher his HB 2113 through the House. And he was attempting to receive approval from the Senate Government Committee when …

Fox News reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., declared that U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines should be yanked, asserting that the jabs “are causing permanent harm and deaths.” “FDA approval for COVID-19 vaccines needs to be pulled and they need taken off the childhood vaccine schedule ASAP,” she said in a post on X. “I’ve been …