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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Sunday signed into law a $72.7 billion two-year state budget that kills the state’s living wage law and takes away workers’ right to a weekend.

The greater Cincinnati area could soon become one of the largest in the country without an abortion provider.

Indiana will next year cut off food stamp benefits to tens of thousands of residents who have not secured jobs or participated in work training programs.

The Maine Democratic Party recently sent campaign mailers that reignited a controversy caused by state Rep. c’s (R) statements comparing abortion and rape.

Republican legislators in Pennsylvania are trying to add an anti-gun control amendment to a bill designed to protect victims of domestic violence.

Republican legislators in Pennsylvania are trying to add an anti-gun control amendment to a bill designed to protect victims of domestic violence.

New Jersey’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate says he is lagging behind in the polls because of the rise in the number of single women, who he charges “are automatically Democratic” because they rely on social programs like food stamps.

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office has said that a former state employee is at least partially to blame for her own rape after the employee sued the state over her attack.

Monica Wehby, an Oregon Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, has been caught in plagiarism scandal. This week, BuzzFeed published two reports detailing examples of plagiarism on Wehby’s website, prompting the campaign—which is already trailing the incumbent Democrat Jeff Merkley—to go on the defensive.

Proponents of secularism in Arizona on Wednesday sent a letter to Gov. Jan Brewer (R) asking that her Office of Faith and Community Partnerships not use public funds to advocate for religiosity.

An abortion provider in Cincinnati, Ohio, is suing the state Department of Health (ODH), alleging that the department’s move to close the clinic was unreasonable and politically motivated.

The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund has sent a letter to the Department of Motor Vehicles in West Virginia on behalf of two transgender women who say they were discriminated against by the DMV and want the department to stop humiliating trans people.

The only abortion clinic in western North Carolina closed its doors on Saturday after its facility was put up for sale in March. The closest in-state abortion provider for women in the region is now in Charlotte.