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It's harder to get away with driving while talking on your cell phone. But at least in California, you can still keep in touch with your pets.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a proposal to fine drivers with animals on their laps. Lapdogs are legal.

The governor says he only wants to sign the highest-priority bills, and this isn't one of them. One lawmaker says he spotted a woman driving with three dogs on her lap.

A federal grand jury in Chattanooga ends its meeting without indicting a Tennessee lawmaker's son.

AP - Alaska Gov.

An impending state Board of Education vote could determine whether specific standards are established for a proposed elective high school Bible course, rather than the non-specific guidelines already adopted.

In South Carolina, state lawmakers are debating the legacy of former Gov. Ben Tillman. Historians agree Tillman was an outspoken white supremacist, and lawmakers in Columbia are grappling with how to recognize his past.

One black lawmaker is on a quest to get a statue of Tillman on the statehouse grounds removed. Julie Rose reports from member station WFAE.

Reuters - U.N.

The government in the Netherlands is trying to defuse Muslim anger over a new film that accuses the Quran of inciting violence.

The Netherlands' ambassador to the United States, Christiaan Mark Johan Kröner, talks about the film, Fitna, by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders.

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