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Another new California law requires primary care providers to offer patients hepatitis B and C testing.

A long-shot effort to push for amendments to the U.S. Constitution banning gay marriage and abortion have fallen short by one vote.

Legislation to prohibit discrimination in employment and housing based on sexual orientation or gender identity cleared a first hurdle Wednesday.

Only one Republican senator voted in support of the bill and Democrats voted on both sides of the measure.

“We don’t need to put another stain on Mississippi,” said State Senator John Hohrn (D), citing the state’s history of slavery and segregation.