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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

The recent protests in conservative states point to a potentially counterintuitive reality.
Federal prosecutors on Monday arrested and charged State Rep. Jack Williams and former Alabama Republican Party Chairman Martin Connors in a public corruption investigation stemming from a 2016 insurance coverage scheme.
A coast-to-coast coalition of cities and states filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to block the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
People who work for the Trump administration and Congress members aren't the only government employees being asked to sign legally questionable contracts to keep secrets.
Song by Twisted Sister that thousands of Kentucky teachers sang during their protest on Monday at the state Capitol. They are rallying against a pension bill that would let lawmakers change new teachers' pension plans.
Car crashes on Minnesota highways during a snowstorm Monday night.
Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill that makes her state the 50th and final one to enact a consumer data breach notification law.
In its latest legal salvo against California, the Department of Justice announced Monday it is filing suit against what it branded an "extreme" state law that tries to give California power to veto sales of federal land to private interests.
Thousands of Oklahoma teachers went on strike Monday to demand higher pay and more education funding, digging in for a prolonged walkout as discontent spreads among public educators in conservative states.
The state Supreme Court left intact a voter-approved California law Monday that requires police to collect DNA samples from anyone arrested on suspicion of committing a felony, sidestepping questions about what it means for the tens of thousands of people who are arrested but never charged or convicted.