The bill would reduce the minimum number of polling places that Texas counties must have, rolling back a 2023 law that created challenges for election administrators.

The Scottish Parliament has given its initial backing to legislation to legalise assisted dying. A bill tabled by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur passed its first parliamentary vote by 70 to 56, with one abstention. But there is still a way to go if it is to become law, and that is not a guaranteed outcome.

AID IN DYING ALIVE: Dozens of advocates who’ve spent years in the Capitol’s hallways pushing for terminally ill New Yorkers to legally end their own lives with a physician’s aid are finally seeing hope.

GOP spending hawks lobbed shots at the package for failing to do enough to rein in rising federal deficits. And Republicans with concerns related to imperiled energy projects in their districts or the revised cap on state and local tax decisions registered their own complaints.

A bill to legalise assisted dying in Scotland has passed an initial vote at Holyrood. The proposals would allow terminally-ill, mentally competent adults to seek medical help to end their lives.

The Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture committees will hammer out details on Medicaid and nutritional assistance spending and tax cuts.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax breaks tallying more than $5 trillion — but also sizable reductions in Medicaid health care, food stamps for older Americans and green energy strategies to fight climate change — are all up for debate Tuesday as the House Republicans launch marathon public hearings on their “big, beautiful bill.”

What this does is remove testing from being the center of gravity for the year the way that it is now,” state Rep. Diego Bernal, D-San Antonio, said on the House floor this week. “The days of teaching to the test,