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FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2019 file photo, marijuana grows at an indoor cannabis farm in Gardena, Calif. Top prosecutors in the vast majority of Arizona counties are dropping all existing possession of marijuana cases even before a new voter-approved law eliminating criminal penalties for having small amounts of the drug takes effect when results of the Nov. 3, 2020 election are certified. An Associated Press survey of county attorneys received responses from 13 of 15 elected county attorneys, all of whom said they were either immediately dropping existing cases or in one case pausing prosecutions and planning to drop them when Proposition 207 goes into effect. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
House votes to decriminalize marijuana at federal level

By Matthew Daly Dec. 04, 2020 01:14 PM EST

FILE - In this March 20, 2018 file photo, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives greets supporters at her election night party in Glen Ellyn, Ill. Ives is running for congress in Illinois on Nov. 3, 2020. (Mark Black/Daily Herald via AP, File)
Democrats Biden, Durbin, Newman win in Illinois

By Sophia Tareen Nov. 02, 2020 11:31 PM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2019, file photo Democratic presidential candidates former Vice President Joe Biden, left and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., talk during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. Warren, a Massachusetts senator and leading progressive, has become an unlikely confidant and adviser to Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. They talk every 10 days or so, according to aides to both politicians who requested anonymity to describe their relationship. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
How Sanders is helping keep the progressive movement strong

By Will Weissert Aug. 17, 2020 11:26 PM EDT

Businesswoman Lauren Boebert, right, and Janet Rowland, left, react to early returns during a watch party in Grand Junction, Colo., after polls closed in Colorado's primary Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Boebert defeated five-term Rep. Scott Tipton in the Republican primary in the state's 3rd Congressional District. (Christopher Tomlinson/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP)
Gun-toting restaurateur upsets 5-term Colorado congressman

Jun. 30, 2020 11:36 PM EDT