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A Georgia state Senate committee on Tuesday gutted a controversial elections overhaul -- a day after local election officials from both parties blasted it as complicating their work in an election year.

Firefighters are making progress against a wildfire at Fort Hood that has scorched about 33,206 acres, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.

After an Oregon physician filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the residency requirement in Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, the ​state, along with the Oregon Medical Board and the Oregon Health Authority, agreed they would no longer apply or enforce the requirement​ -- thus allowing non-Oregon residents to access medical aid in dying in the state.

The new Florida law that limits how schools and teachers can address sexuality and gender, in particular for the youngest students, has sparked protests and outrage.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson met with two closely watched Republican senators on Tuesday -- Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine -- but it is still unclear whether she will win any GOP support.

President Joe Biden delivered a strong message to corporate executives this week in his 2023 spending plan: Share the wealth.

Only a few months into 2022 and it's already a dreadful year for wildfires. More than 14,781 separate wildfires have scorched over half a million acres as of this week, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, the largest number of fires year-to-date the agency has recorded in the past decade.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday received and quickly vetoed new congressional boundaries approved by the Republican-controlled legislature, setting up a showdown with his own party over how to proceed with a new map for the state.