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National health spending will increase modestly over the next decade, propelled in part by the gradual rebound of the U.S. economy and the growing ranks of Americans who became insured under the health law, government actuaries projected Wednesday.
A federal judge in Louisiana threw a roadblock on what advocates thought would be an expressway toward establishing gay marriage as a fundamental national right, ruling that the state's ban on such unions was constitutional.
In hundreds of police departments across the country, the percentage of whites on the force is more than 30 percentage points higher than in the communities they serve.
The Justice Department is preparing to announce as early as Thursday that it will expand its investigation of the police shooting death of Michael Brown, 18, into a broader civil rights probe of the practices of the Ferguson Police Department.
Each cities' innovative plan to help low-income residents seems so different at first glance.
Many local economies experienced a shift in average hours worked, a key indicator for future job growth. View data for more than 400 areas.
Gov. Jerry Brown is pushing a ballot measure he says will institutionalize fiscal responsibility and saving. The complicated amendment will be up to voters this fall.
Because things can get confusing.
The Democratic Party's dominance of California is close to a historic peak. But in the June primary, three out of four voters skipped the election.
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Louisville, Philadelphia and Nashville are the first cities in a new program that will dedicate $3 million in technical assistance to help cities reduce poverty.
The positive feedback over the state's health costs may be temporary.
The 2014 Digital States Survey grades states on how well they use technology to serve their citizens.
There's no easy explanation for what is happening, but the region is losing its namesake fish.
Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Jonathan Lippman, on one of the roles of a judge. Lippman is the brain behind many ideas that have upended the court system nationwide including legal aid for the poor and drug courts.
Muriel Bowser, the Democratic nominee for the mayoral election in Washington, D.C., after working as a maid for a morning at Marriott Marquis hotel. The politician joined a housekeeper on her daily rounds at the invitation of a union representing hotel workers.
In a move that will shake up the Alaska governor's race, the Democrat running for the Last Frontier's highest office is poised to suspend his own campaign and join forces with the independent candidate in a unity ticket.
It might have been after Hurricane Sandy delivered havoc to the Northeast in 2012 that the realization came into focus. When other states needed help grappling with disaster aftermath and planning to weather future storms, people in Louisiana got calls.
Two years ago, Massachusetts set what was considered an ambitious goal: The state would not let that persistent monster, rising health care costs, increase faster than the economy as a whole. Today, the results of the first full year are out and there’s reason to for many to celebrate.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Tuesday unveiled plans for a 550-mile natural gas pipeline through three states, a proposal that won him kudos from the energy industry but criticism from environmental activists, who had considered him an ally.
Two days before the start of school, Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration said it is shuttering nine pre-kindergarten centers and delaying the start dates at 36 others.
A new study uses gunshot-detection technology instead of police reports to track gun violence.
States are using taxes to help pay Obamacare's tax on insurers.
Plaintiffs will try to convince U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos that the law puts an unfair burden on minority voters.
Campaign contributions for state races this year likely will surpass a record $2.1 billion collected in the last election.
Oregonians will decide in November whether they want to join the 10 states that already issue a driver's card or license to undocumented immigrants.
Currently, 27 states have agreed to expand Medicaid -- the most recent being Pennsylvania.
Two years after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals action, state responses vary.
A police shooting tests South L.A.'s fragile goodwill toward cops.
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