The Vermont Senate on Friday passed a bill that aims to protect health care workers from disciplinary action for providing abortions and gender-affirming health care, and change insurance premium charges related to such care. The legislation defines reproductive and gender-affirming health care as legally protected “health care activities.

The Republican-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court announced his first television ad buy on Friday, just over two weeks before the election and after his Democratic-supported opponent has dominated the airwaves for weeks. Conservative candidate Dan Kelly’s first ad, which faults sentences handed down by opponent Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz, amounts to $70,000, according to AdImpact, which tracks spending on campaign ads.

A bill in the Florida legislature aims to make it easier for law enforcement to penalize drivers cruising in the left lane. Sponsored by Republican Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka, House Bill 421 makes it punishable by fine to remain in the farthest left lane on any road, street or highway with two or more lanes heading in the same direction with a posted speed limit of at least 65 mph.

KEENE, N.H. – Former Vice President Mike Pence is highlighting his support for Ukraine and making clear that he firmly disagrees with former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on an issue that’s dividing the burgeoning Republican 2024 presidential nomination field. Pence, addressing the more than year-long Russian war against Ukraine, said on Thursday that “there is much debate about this even within our party and that’s healthy.

FIRST ON FOX: Progressive Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., joined his fellow Democrats this week in blaming a 2018 banking bill for the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) despite the fact that the company where his lobbyist wife works strongly advocated for the bill’s passage.

Fourteen Republican lawmakers who have their pilot’s license are calling on President Biden to withdraw his nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration because he has “zero aviation experience.” “While Mr. Washington honorably served our nation in the Army, he did not serve in an aviation unit,” the lawmakers wrote in a Thursday letter to Biden.

A new video of a Trump-appointed federal judge getting heckled at Stanford University shows the associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion at the law school appearing to smirk as she watches the protesters shout at the man.  Judge Kyle Duncan, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, was invited to speak at Stanford March 9 by the Federalist Society but was met with demonstrators holding signs and shouting at him.