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SID SALTER There is no gentle way to say it, so here goes. House Bill 638 as passed by that chamber of the Mississippi Legislature isn’t a bill that considers whether the state should impose the death penalty. No, that’s not the matter at hand in this...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A county clerk from Kentucky jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and secretly recorded videos that reignited the debate over abortion dominated national politics this summer. But in Kentucky, home...

A live radio feed of Scott Walker’s endorsement of Ted Cruz played before Cruz’s rally at the arts center in Brookfield, Wis., yesterday. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn) THE BIG IDEA: When Scott Walker called into a Milwaukee AM radio station yesterday to endorse...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers are advancing a proposal to add firing squad, electrocution and gas chamber as execution methods in case a court blocks the use of lethal injection drugs. House Bill 638 is a response to lawsuits filed by...

DAVID A. LIEB AP JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — State capitols are often referred to as “the people’s house,” but legislatures frequently put up no-trespassing signs by exempting themselves from public-records laws. That tendency was apparent when the Associated...