Tag: lawmaker
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Maine lawmaker accused of choking wife wins re-election by one vote
CAMDEN, Maine — A Republican lawmaker in Maine accused of choking his wife last month won re-election by a single vote after a Thursday recount. State Rep. Lucas Lanigan turned himself in days before the election, after being charged with domestic violence aggravated assault, WCSH, an NBC affiliate in Maine, reported. According to a police affidavit…
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British lawmaker suspended from Labour Party after video shows apparent assault
A member of the British Parliament was suspended Sunday by the Labour Party after a video appeared to show him punching and knocking a man to the ground. Mike Amesbury, 55, from Runcorn and Helsby in northwest England, was suspended pending an investigation into the incident that took place early Saturday morning. Surveillance footage obtained…
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Texas lawmaker vows to ban medical research on unclaimed bodies after NBC News investigation
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. A Texas state legislator is vowing to ban the use of unclaimed bodies for research in response to an NBC News investigation that found a local medical program obtained and studied hundreds of human specimens without…
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Pennsylvania Democratic lawmaker denies writing racist, homophobic tweets
A Pennsylvania Democratic state senator denied claims from Republicans that he made racist and homophobic remarks about Black, Asian and LGBTQ people on social media more than a decade ago. On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Campaign Committee released a statement accusing Sen. Jimmy Dillon (D-Philadelphia) of writing a string of offensive posts on Twitter — now…
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Marxist lawmaker leads the vote count in Sri Lanka’s presidential election
Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake and opposition leader Sajith Premadasa headed to a run-off for Sri Lanka’s presidency on Sunday, the election body said, with a second round of counting to determine the winner using preferential votes. It is the first time in Sri Lanka’s history that the presidential race is to be decided by a…