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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.

One of the most historic U.S. journalism sites will vanish after a Virginia county board voted to demolish the building and parking garage central to the Watergate political scandal of the 1970s.
Gov. Bobby Jindal signed legislation Thursday that is all but guaranteed to close the only abortion clinics in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Long among the most powerful forces in American politics, the unions are contending with falling revenue and declining membership, damaging court cases, the defection of once-loyal Democratic allies — and a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign portraying them as greedy and selfish.
The Arizona Attorney General's Office will soon inspect detention centers in southern Arizona, where hundreds of migrant children are being housed.
More than 50 jurisdictions nationwide, including sheriffs in Philadelphia and several Oregon counties, recently stopped the practice. And Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco won’t detain immigrants with minor criminal records.
All Metro Nashville students, regardless of income and grade, will have access to free school lunches and breakfasts when school begins in August, under a new federal program the district has decided to join.
Former S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster easily won his way into a runoff for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, but his opponent in two weeks was too close to call Tuesday night.
Two Republicans and two Democrats have advanced to runoffs in the race for South Carolina's superintendent of education.
Voters narrowly gave the thumbs-up to the state's lone primary ballot measure Tuesday, giving approval to move the deadlines for submitting petitions for ballot measures.
Little Rock lawyer Leslie Rutledge won the Republican nomination for attorney general in Tuesday’s runoff election, defeating primary opponent David Sterling.