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Those close to the victim said that Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil, was not treated as well as three white American missionaries who contracted the deadly virus in West Africa
The people who would actually use the first nationwide public safety wireless communications network have largely been left out of its creation, possibly hurting its effectiveness.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's decisions that once seemed like triumphs or smart compromises have turned off many voters.
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday refused to reconsider a March ruling that allowed Texas to require physicians who perform abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of an abortion facility.
Less than 24 hours after news broke of a secret marriage, Oregon first lady Cylvia Hayes tearfully apologized to Oregonians and to her fiancé, Gov. John Kitzhaber, for accepting $5,000 to illegally marry an 18-year-old Ethiopian in need of a green card.
With Georgia polls set to open Monday for early voting, campaigns have less than a week to ramp up their "get out the vote" efforts. They're not starting cold: Leaders of the state's biggest political parties have made unprecedented use of analytics this year to pinpoint exactly which voters they need to win.
We will not be successful in our social programs ... until we fully recognize the evils of our past.
Seattle Councilmember Bruce Harrell, after the Council unanimously approved a resolution redesignating Columbus Day as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” in the city.
Though the nation’s overall uninsured rate has dropped about five percentage points in the last year, Americans are still more likely to say the health care law hurt them rather than helped them, according to a new Gallup survey.
Fewer than half of American states are working to protect themselves from climate change, despite more detailed warnings from scientists that communities are already being damaged, according to a new online clearinghouse of states' efforts compiled by the Georgetown Climate Center.
Factor by which someone in Nevada is more likely than someone in Massachusetts to be the target of a federal wiretap.
State Corrections Department officials gave a media tour of Oklahoma’s newly renovated death chamber Thursday and confirmed they are prepared to move forward with two upcoming executions in November.
The Wisconsin and Texas cases were the two most closely watched tests of new voter rules this year. In both states, the Republican-led legislatures sought to tighten the rules for voting and to require all registered voters who did not have a driver's license to obtain a photo ID card at a state motor vehicles office.
The lone debate scheduled between Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and his Democratic opponent, David Alameel, could end up only being broadcast in Spanish.
Wild bison have been reintroduced on the prairies east of the Mississippi River for the first time since the 1830s.
Republican lawmakers reported donating about $550,000 to the governor's campaign over the past three months.
Florida's attorney general charges that the governor shields more than $200 million in assets.
Alameda County Judge George Hernandez Jr. has ruled that students were being deprived of their right to an education.
The Kansas secretary of state disputes disagrees the methodology of a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office report, which was requested by four Democratic and one independent U.S. Senate leaders.
Kelly Dittmar, scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics and assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University. Many of the 25 states that haven't had female governors have actually had quite a few female members of Congress.
Over the last year, the credit agency upgraded 41 percent of local governments' ratings, drawing skepticism from some.
After 15 minutes of voicing last-minute concerns, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners voted 18-2 Wednesday night to join the new Great Lakes Water Authority.
Baltimore's mayor and police commissioner outlined Tuesday a sweeping plan to reduce police brutality, including the possibility of equipping officers with body cameras, while reiterating that they are committed to restoring public trust in the agency.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy issued an order Wednesday to temporarily halt gay marriages in Idaho, a day after a federal appeals court declared same-sex weddings legal there.
States that toughened their voter identification laws saw steeper drops in election turnout than those that did not, with disproportionate falloffs among black and younger voters, a nonpartisan congressional study released Wednesday concluded.
Consumers using the federal healthcare.gov website when open enrollment begins next month should expect a faster website with a shorter application form and features making it easier to use on mobile devices, Obama administration officials said Wednesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on Wednesday that means voters in North Carolina will not be able to vote out of their precincts on Nov. 4 nor register to vote and cast ballots on the same day.
Three states are putting the issue to voters in November, including one measure that would criminalize abortion.
At a time when public housing agencies are increasingly considering smoking prohibitions, a new study shows that a ban would save nearly $500 million a year.
An investigation by the HHS inspector general says beneficiaries getting the treatments at “critical access” hospitals pay between two and six times more than those at other hospitals.
But starting this week, potential students can see how much they money they could expect to make monthly at different points in their career, as well as how much they might repay each month in loans.
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