Arkansas governor signs bill allowing medical workers to refuse treatment to LGBTQ people
The new law won't take effect until late this summer. The measure is among several targeting transgender people advancing through Arkansas' legislature.
Arkansas governor signs near-total abortion ban into law
The Republican governor had expressed reservations about the bill, which does not provide exceptions for those impregnated in an act of rape or incest.
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Hutchinson says Trump ‘needs to regain’ blue-collar workers in swing states
Throughout the Republican National Convention, we’ll be talking to prominent members of the party. One of them is Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who was scheduled to participate in convention activities but decided to stay home in Little Rock as his…
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Why Gov. Asa Hutchinson says reopening Arkansas isn’t to blame for rising COVID-19 cases
As states continue to lift pandemic restrictions and allow economic activity to resume, many are seeing new surges in coronavirus cases. Arkansas has documented more than 3,500 new positive tests since it began the second phase of its reopening. Arkansas…
Weeks of business closures and stay-at-home orders have left the American economy in shambles. Now, a majority of states are starting to lift restrictions and resume business -- even though COVID-19 cases and deaths nationwide continue to climb. Arkansas Gov.
Arkansas is one of only five U.S. states without a stay-at-home order in place despite the coronavirus pandemic. Its number of confirmed COVID-19 cases passed 1,000 on Wednesday. Gov. Asa Hutchinson joins Judy Woodruff to discuss his state’s “very targeted…
The 18-week bans would be the strictest in the country if enacted.
As the Senate begins to write its own health care reform bill, it’s finding some crucial differences of opinion over the legislation passed by the House to replace the Affordable Care Act. As part of our conversations about what’s at…
The fight for Davis’ life escalated through a series of appeals and counter arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court late Monday. Without knowing if the court would offer an opinion, prison personnel preemptively served him his last meal.
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