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Playing off the reality TV show, the ads compare gubernatorial candidates to wedding dresses. Critics call the campaign a failed attempt to connect with female voters.
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While a federal judge in Corpus Christi mulls whether the state's requirement to show photo ID to cast a ballot violates the federal Voting Rights Act, a judge on the highest criminal appeals court in Texas is taking another approach: He's suing the state over its relatively new voter ID law.
Hundreds packed the Jefferson County Board of Education headquarters building and the grounds around it Thursday night to decry a controversial proposed curriculum review committee that has been at the center of nearly two weeks of student protests.
Florida had the worst voter lines in the country in 2012, and a lack of resources at some precincts contributed to those long waits to vote, studies from the U.S. General Accounting Office and a New York think tank revealed.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Thursday that he had instructed the State University of New York to overhaul its approach to preventing, investigating and prosecuting sexual assault, including making affirmative consent the rule on all 64 of its campuses.
The Supreme Court on Thursday accepted new cases about congressional redistricting, judicial candidates asking for campaign donations and religious discrimination.
As it hears arguments in an appeal of a federal judge’s decision overturning new requirements for Texas abortion facilities, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the state could enforce the requirements in the meantime.
State officials have characterized the response to an Ebola diagnosis in Dallas as top-notch, but medical experts argue that the state’s public health infrastructure may be vulnerable.
State databases are under intensifying attacks from a growing number of sophisticated hackers trolling for personal information about citizens. Can they be stopped?
Kevyn Orr said any attempt to sell the art would have resulted in a huge legal expense for the city.
Dallas County Health and Human Services is monitoring anyone who had primary or secondary contact with Thomas Eric Duncan.
It's up to voters this November, but other states have enacted similar moves only to encounter financial problems later.
Percent of bike-share users in Washington, D.C., which has the nation's largest such program, who are black.
The selection process for the City Accelerator surfaced the tensions that make it difficult to make innovation a regular practice.
Proportion of 1989 state and parish officials in Louisiana who had a relative in another office in the state.
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, when asked about a recent CNN poll indicating that only 2 percent of Democrats prefer him as the presidential candidate.
The first-ever rankings from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools strive to evaluate quality and other factors.
Percentage of U.S. counties in which the proportion of racial minorities has increased since 2010.
Washington, D.C., journalist Sadie Dingfelder's interpretation of a picture the District of Columbia Department of Transportation rolled out as part of its streetcar safety education campaign for children.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Tuesday that makes California the first state in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags.
A tanker carrying oil from Alaska's North Slope is heading to South Korea, the first such export in a decade, officials confirmed on Tuesday.
In a further setback to Republican incumbent Pat Roberts, a Kansas District Court declined Wednesday to force Democrats to place a candidate on the ballot in the state's too-close-to-call U.S. Senate race.
Teachers in one of the state’s largest school districts have gone on strike, after contract talks stalled in north suburban Waukgean.
Hours after a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling brought clarity about which parts of a 2013 election law would apply to the coming election, Gov. Pat McCrory and legislative leaders added a layer of uncertainty.
A federal bankruptcy judge dealt a serious blow to California's public employee pension systems by ruling Wednesday that payments for future worker retirements can be reduced when a city declares bankruptcy -- just like its other debts.
When bad things happen in government procurement, the real culprits too often are officials who fail to exercise the oversight they should.
With one month to go, the Democrats and Republicans are in a dead heat to win the most seats.
A recent study looked at 14 types of abortion restrictions that state legislatures have implemented across the country. The authors then plotted each state's number of restrictions against an evaluation of health outcome statistics.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear cases this term related to religious freedom in state prisons, taxes on railway carriers, traffic stops and more.
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