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Some Vermont residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed during severe flooding in July still face housing shortages.

Vermonters are working to dry out homes and businesses damaged by this week's historic flooding and keeping a wary eye on the horizon with another round of storms on the horizon.

Vermonters are working to dry out homes and businesses damaged by this week's historic flooding and keeping a wary eye on the horizon, with another round of storms in the forecast this weekend.

Vermont is preparing for the next round of storms — and possibly a tornado — as people took advantage of a second day of calm weather to clean up from historic flooding that damaged thousands of homes, businesses and roads, and left some residents stranded.

Volunteers have showed up with snow shovels across Vermont to help communities clear the mud from epic floods.

A historically high number of supermajorities in state legislatures has pushed laws further to the edge on abortion, climate and transgender issues.

Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bill into law enshrining existing protections for out-of-state abortion patients and in-state providers on Tuesday, marking a rare occurrence of a Republican governor approving measures that are part of Democrats’ vow to make the western swing state an abortion safe haven.

Vermont has become the first state in the country to change its medically assisted suicide law to allow terminally ill people from out of state to take advantage of it to end their lives.

The leader of the Vermont state Senate Becca Balint could become the first woman and the first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress.

Vermont’s moderate Republican governor is urging the nation's senators to work together to address gun violence.

Republicans are facing tough odds of ousting liberal Gov. Gavin Newsom in a recall election in heavily Democratic California.

California Republicans see a chance of ousting embattled Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in a September recall election.

President Joe Biden is relaunching the council of governors.

Some states are making plans to spend billions of dollars from President Joe Biden's pandemic relief act, though the money has yet to arrive.

Though Caitlyn Jenner is one of the most famous transgender people in America, the announcement of her candidacy for California governor was greeted hostilely by one of the state’s largest LGBTQ-rights groups.

The U.S. 7th Fleet that operates throughout the Indo-Pacific says more than 14,000 of its service members have received their full doses of the coronavirus vaccine, which it began administering on January 5.

India’s total positive cases since the start of the epidemic have reached 10.6 million, the second highest after the United States with 25.43 million cases. India started inoculating health workers on Jan. 16 in what is likely the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign. The FDA said Tuesday there have been reports of hospitalizations and death linked to the sanitizers reported to U.S. poison control centers and state health departments. The state’s health agency on Tuesday said third-party administrators would take over ordering and distributing vaccine doses with a new state secretary in charge of logistics. On Tuesday, the CDC reported just over half of the 41 million doses distributed to states have been put in people’s arms.

In the race to 270 electoral votes, Biden has 236, while Trump has 213. ___2:40 a.m.President Donald Trump is vowing to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in on the inconclusive election. Nebraska, one of two states that divides its electoral votes, has five total electoral votes up for grabs. The Republican nominee on Wednesday was awarded six electoral votes from Iowa and three electoral votes from Montana. Biden nets 74 electoral votes for the three Western states, while Trump takes four electoral votes from Idaho.

(AP Photo/Paul Sancya File)A plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor has put a focus on the security of governors who have faced protests and threats over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The only time a U.S. state governor died of assassination was in Kentucky in 1900, when Kentucky Gov. In the same city this spring, current Kentucky Gov. In April, a man was charged after being accused of making threats against Beshear and Kentucky State Police troopers online. ___Follow Mulvihill at http://www.twitter.com/geoffmulvihill__Thurs article has been updated to show that former Kentucky Gov.

GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. – Glynn County officials are expecting a big turnout this Memorial Day weekend. With this in mind, they want to hammer home that people need to be safe and continue practicing social distancing. A Glynn County spokesperson says the last few weekends have brought out some crowds. Scott McQuade is CEO of the Golden Isles Convention and Visitors Bureau. The busy holiday weekend is a welcome sight after a “long drought” in business due to COVID-19 related closures, according to Scott.