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A judge threw out a new state law Monday, ruling that it violated the constitutional rights of at least two politicians whose 2018 campaigns the law had targeted.
In bidding for the company's second headquarters, many cities may have tipped their hand on tax incentives.
New research suggests a simple way to boost turnout among first-time voters.
Cracks that appeared in the Florida International University bridge days before it collapsed were far more extensive than previously disclosed, according to photographs included in a preliminary report issued Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
CMS is encouraging states to allow the sale of plans outside of those exchanges that don’t incorporate a surcharge insurers started tacking on last year.
As of Monday, Pennsylvanians once again can apply for General Assistance, a monthly cash program that aided the poorest individuals in the commonwealth before it was eliminated by the Legislature and then-Gov. Tom Corbett in 2012.
All sexual assault victims who enter an Illinois emergency room will soon be treated by a nurse trained to care for them.
Local officials spread across Kansas' 105 counties will exercise an incredible amount of power this week when they determine whether thousands of ballots should count in the closest primary race for governor in Kansas history.
North Dakotans will vote this November on a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana, state officials announced Monday.
State House candidate Melissa Howard admitted Monday that she lied about having a degree from Miami University.
Authorities in Nebraska plan Tuesday morning to use the powerful opioid fentanyl to carry out a death sentence, an unprecedented move that comes as the state is preparing to resume executions for the first time in nearly a generation.
West Virginia's House of Delegates voted to impeach all four justices on the state's Supreme Court of Appeals on Monday, saying they will face an impeachment trial in the Senate over the use of state funds to renovate Supreme Court offices.
Having raised $3.5 million in just a few months, the newly formed Black Economic Alliance on Monday endorsed Democrat Ben Jealous for governor of Maryland -- and pledged to give him financial support.
Health policy experts worry that the controversial plans the Trump administration is pushing could undo some of the progress being made with Obamacare premiums.
Some prominent Southwest Florida Republicans are calling on GOP state House candidate Melissa Howard to drop out of the District 73 race after a Miami University official said a diploma that Howard has displayed does not appear to be authentic, and that Howard does not have the degree she has been claiming.
California officials asked the Trump administration on Wednesday to release documents indicating whether officials considered the potential psychological impact of the federal “zero tolerance” policy on children separated from their immigrant parents after crossing the border.
Wyoming State Treasurer and current Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Gordon has fired back at the Bank of the West following its decision to pull its investments from the fossil fuel industry, impacting millions of dollars in public monies managed by the bank.
The text alerts will be sent at least twice a month, and will give consumers tips to avoid scams, warnings about new scams, or updates on consumer protection issues.
The Connecticut Insurance Department has determined state law prohibits the sale of skimpy “short term” plans that are being promoted by President Donald Trump as a cheaper alternative to Affordable Care Act coverage.
Inside Brick and Board’s downtown warehouse here, neat stacks of wooden planks stretch to the ceiling. On a recent summer day, a handful of men wearing pink respirators bend over woodworking machines in the back of the room.
Gov. Scott Walker became one of the country’s biggest Republican stars by battling labor unions and fending off a recall campaign amid mass protests at the state Capitol.
Despite a challenging first term marked by both natural and man-made disasters, Hawaii Gov. David Ige won the Democratic primary in his bid for a second term in office Saturday, defeating U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa.
About two dozen white nationalists showed up to the “Unite the Right 2” rally Sunday — and their travel plans sparked controversy.
In a year with an unprecedented number of female candidates, the debate is being revisited after the federal government weighed in.
President Donald Trump brainstormed on criminal justice reform Thursday with a few governors and state law enforcement leaders -- among them Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general whose fraud indictment has now been pending for over three years.
Josh Castro waited until the last minute to escape the massive inferno near his house in Southern California.
Arizona’s Supreme Court cleared the way for a new development with nearly 7,000 homes near the San Pedro River, siding with state water regulators in a hotly contested decision that conservationists say will threaten one of the last free-flowing rivers in the Southwest.
The federal government supports the state of Michigan's proposed administrative consent order for the Flint water system, a document that points out deficiencies that must be fixed and deadlines for addressing each one.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner weighed in on Chicago's mayoral race Thursday, calling Mayor Rahm Emanuel "corrupt."
Political “robocalls” — which, like commercial calls, increasingly target consumers’ phones — may be annoying, but a Wyoming law to prohibit political operatives from using them is overly broad and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled.
Almost 11 months after Hurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico, officials have conceded that more than 1,400 people were likely killed by the storm, a dramatic rise from the official death toll of 64.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said in a cable news interview Thursday night that he plans to recuse himself from the vote tally process in the face of pressure from Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer and mounting confusion over vote totals.
The billionaire governor of West Virginia said Monday that coal companies linked to his family have paid all the delinquent taxes they owe the state of West Virginia and its counties, but records show the companies still owe millions in Eastern Kentucky.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Wednesday that he has no plans to recuse himself from a recount process in the race for governor, a stance that legal and political experts questioned.
The Union City police chief's teenage son was arrested Wednesday in connection with a brutal attack on a 71-year-old Sikh man in Manteca, and detectives are trying to determine if the attack was a hate crime.
A new report identifies the different factors affecting a city's ability to respond to a fiscal crisis -- and what policymakers can do about it.
The defeat of a Republican-led bid to make Missouri a “right to work” state Tuesday probably means the issue will be off the table for at least a year, some GOP lawmakers say.
Whether it's employee misbehavior or supervisory abuse that's reported, one thing is for certain: It's worse than it looks.
Asked by a reporter if he identifies with the label of "socialist," Ben Jealous responded: "Are you f--ing kidding me?"
Russian operatives have “penetrated” some of Florida’s voter registration systems ahead of the 2018 midterms, Sen. Bill Nelson said Wednesday, adding new urgency to concerns about hacking.
Washington state is considering taking further legal action against a National Rifle Association–branded insurance program after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo encouraged other states to consider banning the insurance.
Gov. Kim Reynolds has dropped an outspoken Medicaid adviser who repeatedly voiced concerns about how private management companies were treating Iowans with disabilities.
The City Council voted Wednesday to stop issuing new licenses for most for-hire vehicles for a year in an effort to regulate e-hail apps like Uber, Lyft and Via, whose rapid growth has thrown the city's taxi industry into chaos.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the city of Charlottesville proactively declared a state of emergency ahead of the one-year anniversary of the violent white nationalist rally there that left one woman dead and dozens of others injured.
Fifteen states are siding with Nevada in a state Supreme Court fight against drug companies suing to prevent the use of their products to execute a condemned inmate.
The West Virginia House Judiciary Committee approved 14 articles of impeachment against the four sitting justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Tuesday.
As governor, Rick Scott has been very critical of the "brutal and oppressive" Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela, including calling on state investment fund managers to sever ties with companies that do business with that country.
California is firing back at the Trump administration with a plan to safeguard the state's greenhouse gas emissions rules from a proposed federal rollback.
No law requires Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to recuse himself from a recount in the governor's race, but legal and political experts say that he should to maintain trust in the election.
"If you want to have an influence on policy, then the best way to do so is by being an elected official."
When Tracy Deis decided in 2016 to transition from a full-time job to part-time contract work, the loss of her employer’s health insurance was not a major worry because she knew she could get coverage through the marketplace set up by the Affordable Care Act.
After the state sent out a false nuclear attack warning in January, Hawaii Gov. David Ige trailed in polls. Now he's favored to win reelection.
Republican Bill Schuette and Democrat Gretchen Whitmer won their parties' respective primary elections Tuesday night, setting the two up for a showdown in the Nov. 6 general election.
Wearing goggles and a bright green vest, Brenda Burke approached the 3-foot-tall flame in a crouched position, holding a fire extinguisher at the ready.
Officials in rural states like South Dakota and Wyoming told President Donald Trump’s school safety commission on Tuesday that few school districts have taken advantage of state laws there to train and arm teachers.
After the most violent weekend in Chicago in more than two years, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced Tuesday afternoon that several hundred additional officers have been deployed to neighborhoods most wracked by the shooting.
Undocumented workers in Idaho have the right to claim workers’ comp payments and even temporary disability payments if they’re hurt on the job.
In Tuesday night’s initial primary results, Democrats appear to have a shot at picking up four Republican-held state Senate seats.
Robert McCulloch's 28-year run as St. Louis County's elected prosecutor came to a stunning end Tuesday when he was upset by a Ferguson councilman who promised to reform the criminal justice system.
The race for the Republican nomination for Kansas governor -- a contest in which President Donald Trump endorsed his close political ally Kris Kobach -- was too close to call late Tuesday.
Immigration lawyers and advocates saw red Tuesday amid reports that the Trump administration plans to make it all but impossible for legal immigrants to become citizens if they have ever relied on public welfare programs such as the Affordable Care Act.
In a test of public support for unions following the Supreme Court's Janus ruling, voters rejected Missouri's right-to-work law on Tuesday.
It's been another good year for public pension investment returns. But the gains won't make a big difference in their overall fiscal health.
Cities used to stay out of courtroom battles over health. Not anymore. Their new Obamacare lawsuit represents a growing strategy.
When Florida Sea Grant director Karl Havens, who is a well-regarded expert on water and has studied pollution all over the world, began hearing about a deepening algae bloom in his own backyard in Lake Okeechobee this summer, he struggled to find information that could tell him what was going on.
Maryland has launched a pilot program that will allow anyone to power their home with solar panels -- even if they are renters, condo-dwellers or live in the shade of trees.
The relentless wall of flame north of Clear Lake known as the Mendocino Complex grew into the largest fire in California history, outpacing 15 other conflagrations that blanketed the skies with smoke, state fire officials said Monday.
Officers worked for hours Monday to unchain protesters as they occupied the property of a private prison company's corporate headquarters, shutting down Nashville-based CoreCivic's office building for the day.
The governor said Friday that he has directed state police to investigate white supremacy flyers being distributed in a number of communities, most recently in Oneida County in central New York.
Beating her fellow Democrats and then defeating a sitting Vermont governor for the first time since 1962 are only the beginning.
West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using a smartphone app, a move designed to make voting in November's election easier for troops living abroad.
The endorsement from President Trump came -- as they often do -- in a tweet.
Local labor shortages are helping workers with only a high school education -- or less -- find employment.
Washington, D.C.'s Metro is no longer considering separate trains for protesters attending the white nationalist "Unite the Right" rally on Aug. 12.
The Kentucky Department of Revenue has collected at least $50 million since 2006 from students who owed money to nearly all of Kentucky's public universities, and gotten millions more in fees.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the National Rifle Association's federal lawsuit against him is "frivolous." The lawsuit claims that Cuomo's policies are trying to deprive the NRA of its First Amendment rights by making it more difficult for the organization to function in the state.
Marijuana users in New Jersey — which is on the verge of legalizing weed — are arrested at the highest rate in the nation by local police departments, some of which report that more than a third of their arrests were for pot, a USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey investigation found.
Wherever he takes his campaign for governor, Abdul El-Sayed is followed by activists handing out information about “Medicare for all.” When he grabs the microphone, El-Sayed makes a promise: He’ll bring universal health care to Michigan.
Despite the residual effects from last year’s devastating hurricanes, Puerto Rico is moving ahead with major cuts to its health care safety net that will affect more than a million of its poorest residents.
Something familiar happened in America in February: A gunman walked into a school, and shot and killed 17 students and staff in a horrific act of violence.
There are early, but scattered, signs that Democrats will use new tariffs as a wedge issue.
Austin recently took a new tack in the ongoing war between “sanctuary cities" and federal immigration authorities.
While signing into law a bill imposing longer prison sentences for "merchants of death" dealing fentanyl, Gov. John Kasich said he is leaning toward supporting a ballot issue to prevent many low-level drug use and possession offenders from being sent to state prisons.
Hours after the Catholic Church changed its official teaching Thursday to fully reject the death penalty, a trio of bishops urged action to halt an upcoming execution in Nebraska.
The Department of Health and Human Services says 96 organizations will get funding under the federal family planning program this year.
In a mea culpa, Haddam Democratic Selectwoman Melissa Schlag, who garnered widespread attention for kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance in protest of President Donald Trump, said on Facebook Wednesday that comments she made were not intended to make all of her town seem "racist or fascist."
Calling a new Trump administration proposal to roll back fuel efficiency standards "insane," Pennsylvania's Attorney General Josh Shapiro said the state would join 18 others, including California, to legally challenge the sweeping plan to scrap Obama-era rules that set increasingly higher standards.
A dire warning from the National Weather Service has forced an evacuation around the College Lake Dam in Lynchburg, Virginia.
A businessman who is a political outsider or a former Nashville mayor will become the next governor of Tennessee, while the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate received a political shot across the bow.
The state is considering a policy that goes further than most places that tax short-term rental companies.
It has accepted one state's unprecedented proposal to lower the cost of prescriptions but rejected another's.
Some of them need collaboration that draws on the strengths of all three sectors -- public, private and nonprofit.
Gov. Cuomo on Monday said he wants to codify Obamacare into New York law while at the same time directing the agency that oversees the insurance industry to reject proposed large health care rate hikes.
Former President Barack Obama released a slew of candidate endorsements in races across the nation Wednesday and pledged his involvement in the fast-approaching midterm elections.
The Trump administration on Thursday moved to revoke California’s authority to set its own strict tailpipe emissions rules and mandate the sale of electric vehicles, as it proposed weakening Obama-era federal fuel efficiency standards.
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic push Wednesday that would have provided $250 million to beef up election security.
After congressional Republicans repeatedly failed last year to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Trump promised to “let Obamacare implode” on its own.
A federal appeals court decided Wednesday that the Trump administration may not withhold federal funds from California's immigrant-friendly "sanctuary" cities and counties.
The activists behind the “Calexit” proposal to cleave California are scrapping their old plans in favor a new secessionist proposal, one that would create what organizers call an “autonomous native nation” within a new independent state.
Illinois Lawmaker, Member of Sexual Harassment Task Force, Resigns After Ex-Girlfriend's Accusations
A Republican state lawmaker tasked with helping find ways to prevent sexual harassment stepped down Wednesday following a report of accusations he sent nude photos of an ex-girlfriend to other men online.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed got another big get on Tuesday when 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, said he will come to Michigan to campaign for him just two days before the Aug. 7 primary election.
Insurers will again be able to sell short-term health insurance good for up to 12 months under final rules released Wednesday by the Trump administration.
Amid a national outcry and a spate of legal challenges, a federal judge in Washington state issued a restraining order late Tuesday that effectively blocked the Texas group that planned to publicly post files that would enable people to make 3D-printable guns.
The chairwoman of the Spokane County Republican Party offered a defense of James Allsup during a meeting of local conservatives this month, claiming the 22-year-old alt-right provocateur -- whose views have been widely condemned as racist -- was a victim of "label lynching" by the political left and the mainstream media.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Tuesday denied claims by the union representing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement employees that city police officers would not respond to their urgent calls for service during a recent occupation by protesters.
A proposal to create a bipartisan commission to draw Michigan's political lines -- intended to stop political gerrymandering -- will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled late Tuesday.
Among the many things the current administration has been criticized for is its lack of a unified strategy to combat cyber threats, especially in light of ongoing election interference and psy ops perpetrated by Russia.
The Massachusetts State Police have pledged to protect the residents of Blandford after all four members of the town's police department resigned this week.
President Donald Trump swung through Tampa on Tuesday to boast his administration's job creation efforts and to put his thumb on the scale in the state's hotly contested Republican primary for governor.
Population data for residents living in areas prone to flooding and growth estimates for U.S. counties.
North Dakota is conducting a prison experiment inspired by Norway, a country with recidivism rates three times lower than in the U.S.
The California city, known for its out-there policies, will be the nation's first to issue municipal bonds using cryptocurrency.
Already short-staffed and underfunded, these offices have been hit hard by the opioid crisis.
Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza may be better known, but this festival has been going strong since 1924.
Before it goes on vacation, the U.S. Senate could significantly cut child welfare funding in states with anti-discrimination policies protecting LGBT people who want to adopt or foster.
An employee at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has won the first refund of mandatory union fees stemming from last month's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that public employees cannot be required to pay unions dues or fees if they opt out of membership.
Hoping to head off a full expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, some senior officials in the Trump administration and Republican governors have been pushing hard for a smaller expansion to satisfy a growing political demand in their states.
While lawmakers last month rejected adding more medical marijuana dispensaries in the state, one surviving component of the legislation has quietly begun: sales to out-of-state residents.
Amid a still-boiling legal battle over a secret grand jury report into alleged Catholic clergy sex abuse across Pennsylvania, Attorney General Josh Shapiro has appealed to Pope Francis to step in and persuade opponents to drop their bid to block the report's release.
After a Texas group last week posted "blueprints" that allow people to make their own guns with the use of a 3D-print, Pennsylvania and New Jersey joined eight other states Monday in a legal bid to keep their residents from accessing the files.
Hennepin County prosecutors will not charge the two police officers who fatally shot Thurman Blevins, a decision announced Monday hours after just-released body camera footage showed the deadly encounter in a north Minneapolis alley.
Here's an interesting twist -- two conservative Republican governors are actually strengthening Obamacare in their states.
Mayor Kenney won't renew a controversial city contract that allows federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to access a key law-enforcement database, known as PARS, and use that information against undocumented but otherwise law-abiding immigrants in Philadelphia.
Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has vetoed the two bills the Legislature passed earlier this week that would affect November's midterm elections.
The police chief in a small Eastern North Carolina town was arrested Thursday, along with one of his lieutenants, and charged with corruption and other crimes, according to multiple news reports.
The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that the Ann Arbor and Clio school districts have a right to ban guns from their schools -- in a closely watched case that deals a blow to gun rights advocates who had argued state law prohibits schools from enacting such policies.
For public safety managers in communities at risk of wildfire activity, citizen communications and education are two critical components of a wildfire preparedness strategy.
Public Service is an honorable career. Employees, regardless of their generation, take pride in adding value in their workplace and community.
When hackers took over two-thirds of D.C. police’s surveillance cameras days before the 2017 presidential inauguration, it appeared that the cyberattack was limited to elicit a single ransom payment.
A federal judge in Madison has ordered the state to pay for surgeries that two transgender Medicaid recipients need to treat their gender dysphoria.
A group of 11 states and Washington, D.C., are suing the Trump administration in an attempt to roll back a regulation that allowed for the expansion of certain health plans that skirt ObamaCare regulations.
That's the hope of Mayor de Blasio, who is launching yet another fund-raising effort to further his national progressive agenda -- this time, a federal political action committee dubbed Fairness PAC that will also pick up the tab for his political travels.
Visitors to the Colorado state capitol building can wander down a hall and gaze at portraits of the presidents of the United States.
Known as both the "father of Texas" and the namesake of the state's capital, Stephen F. Austin carved out the early outlines of Texas among his many accomplishments.
The New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) on Sunday announced their endorsement of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon.
Minneapolis police body-camera video released Sunday night shows officers repeatedly warning an armed Thurman Blevins to put his hands up as they chased him through a North Side residential neighborhood last month and then fatally shot him in an alley.
The death toll from the state's wildfires continued to mount Sunday, with eight fatalities now reported from blazes burning in Shasta County and near Yosemite National Park.
Instead, they’re connecting drug abusers to substance treatment and other resources.
David Gadis, DC Water's new CEO, has big shoes to fill. He wants to make his own mark.
President Trump will stump for Ron DeSantis in the state on Tuesday. Regardless of who wins the primary, Democrats are hoping a blue wave will help them recapture the governor’s seat in November.
As cities try to manage their growth, the population of people living in flood-prone areas is actually rising faster than elsewhere.
Some districts spend two to six times more on students than other districts -- even in the same state.
Wisconsin's longtime transportation secretary stepped down last year but is still feuding with lawmakers.
His vision for a network of tunnels in Los Angeles and Chicago shows that even the newest technology has its limits.
Bob McCulloch, who refused to indict the police officer involved in the teenager's death, faces a serious challenge in the Aug. 7 primary. His opponent represents a rise in candidates dedicated to criminal justice reform.
Public institutions across the country invest in the private prison operators of immigration detention centers and contract directly with the federal immigration enforcement agency.
Tennessee can use controversial drugs to execute inmates on death row despite concerns from defense attorneys and experts that doing so is "akin to burning someone alive," a Nashville judge ruled Thursday.
Employers in California must pay their workers for tasks they're regularly required to perform for a few minutes before or after their regular work hours, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday, rejecting a federal standard that allows employers to withhold the additional pay.
Tiffany Carr runs the state's top domestic violence organization, a nonprofit that uses public money -- state and federal -- to finance shelters and other essential services. And she makes a good living.
A suspected arson fire that erupted in the San Jacinto Mountains near Idyllwild continued to spread Thursday as a second, smaller fire ignited just miles away and required the diversion of some firefighting resources.
