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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.

Social conservatives won several key Statehouse races in Tuesday's primary, ousting two incumbents and successfully defending others.
Three Indianapolis-area schools won voter approval Tuesday for higher property taxes to shore up finances hit hard by the state's property tax cap and other funding fluxes.
After skirting around the political potholes of the Davidson County Democratic primary, a few incumbent judges and newcomers will have to get their campaigns in gear again quickly to battle Republican challengers in August.
A former staff member in Gov. Chris Christie’s office said in sworn testimony today that she feared the governor’s team would fire her if she reported suspicious activity by her boss in the wake of the George Washington Bridge controversy.
Immigrants flocked to the meatpacking plants surrounding Fremont, Neb., during the last decade, nearly tripling the local Latino population and prompting some city leaders to propose an ordinance that would ban renting to those in the country illegally.
But moving to the federal exchange presents a host of new wrinkles.
Beverly Hills is one of the nation's most affluent cities and is home to numerous luxury retailers, but it is not untouched by the oil industry.
Devastating droughts in the Southwest, ruinous floods in New York City, killer wildfires in Colorado, intense heat waves in the Plains: These are the some of the disasters that are being exacerbated by global warming, and problems will continue to worsen in the decades to come, according to a massive federal climate report released Tuesday at the White House.
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said on Monday her state had "lawfully carried out a sentence of death" in a botched execution that has been widely criticized as cruel and inhumane.
In a decision likely to reduce life-without-parole sentences for teenage offenders, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that judges are free to hand down 25-year-to-life terms for older juveniles convicted of serious crimes and must consider the defendants' youth before sentencing.