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, threatening noncomplying governments with the loss of state economic development money. Tennessee economic development officials say they aren’t aware of any warnings, denials or withholding of state money under that law to date.Early this year, lawmakers and Republican Gov. Bill Lee

to aid the Trump administration with immigration enforcement. It features a potential Class E felony against any local elected official voting for or adopting a so-called sanctuary policy. This could include voting in favor of local government restrictions that impede ICE efforts to detain migrants in the U.S. without permission.Critics believe the criminal penalty — effective July 1 — could be unconstitutional due to state and federal protections afforded lawmakers at various levels of government.The law also created a new state immigration division, but shielded its records from public disclosure.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — For the third consecutive year, Louisiana lawmakers rejected a bill that would have allowed young victims of rape to get an abortion.In an emotional and religious-laced legislative committee meeting on Tuesday legislators objected to adding rape, in cases where the girl is under the age of 17 and impregnated as a result of the sexual offense, to the narrow list of exceptions for one of the strictest abortion bans in the country.

“If we’re truly pro-life, we should also be fighting for the life of those children who are raped and molested,” said the author of the bill, Democratic Rep. Delisha Boyd, who argued that under Louisiana’s current law young victims of rape are forced to carry babies to term.

Among those who opposed the proposed exception was Democratic Rep. Patricia Moore, who spoke publicly about being conceived after her mother was raped as a young teenager. While speaking against the bill, Moore discussed her religious beliefs and said she has struggled with her decision on the measure. Even ahead of the meeting she said she asked God to “show me something in the Bible that can address this.”Young made her 2016 stage debut in Patricia Ione Lloyd’s play “Pretty Hunger” at the Public Theater, a play about a 7-year-old Black girl who didn’t know she was Black. The playwright told her she wrote it with Young in mind.

“Ione Lloyd is one of the people who really made me see myself as an artist,” she says. “She’s the one that kind of set a path for me in a really beautiful way.”Next up for Young is the movie “Is God Is,” which playwright Aleshea Harris is directing from her own 2018 stage play. Sterling K. Brown, Vivica A. Fox and Janelle Monáe are in the cast. Young calls it “a spaghetti Western-meets-Tarantino-meets-the Greeks.” Next summer on Broadway, she’ll star in a revival of “The Whoopi Monologues” opposite Kerry Washington.

After that, who knows? “I don’t know what’s next, but I can’t wait, whatever that is,” she says. “If something comes along, it’s about jumping into the next thing. If there’s life in me, I got to live it.”For more coverage of the 2025 Tony Awards, visit: