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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, responding to reports that the state's medical marijuana program has low enrollment.
Expanding the number of young adults with health insurance appears to have improved their health and saved them money, according to a new study that is among the first to measure the effect of the health care law that President Barack Obama signed four years ago.
Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a Medicaid expansion bill that will tap $2.4 billion in federal funds over the next several years to provide more health care coverage for the poor.
Convicted killers in Georgia and Missouri were executed late Tuesday about an hour apart, marking the first executions in the U.S. since the botched lethal injection of an Oklahoma prisoner in April.
It is the latest in a series of sharp federal interventions in police departments across the country, part of an initiative that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. considers a signature achievement, forcing change and accountability on insular police departments.
The Arizona attorney general is asking a federal judge to disband the police department of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah, pointing to statements by the town marshal admitting law enforcement officers discriminated against residents who do not belong to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A majority of the Arlington County Board on Tuesday declared its opposition to a referendum on the Columbia Pike and Crystal City streetcar projects, a step that took opponents of the projects by surprise and set up a possible showdown between pro- and anti-streetcar factions in November’s general election.
Women, minorities and community college students have more interest in government internships than the general student population, a survey finds.
California is well along in an effort to transition to a environmentally friendly economy. Will the rest of America follow?
A recent report seeks to help states and school districts updating their policies to avoid suspending students for bad behavior -- a practice studies show makes them more vulnerable to dropping out and getting in trouble with the law.
What will change if farming is deemed a constitutionally protected right?
In the Senate runoff, Mississippi's GOP establishment, which is supporting the re-election bid of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, is under siege.
Legislators are swapping Capitol careers for lucrative county paychecks.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, celebrating the Kings' Stanley Cup victory, on live television.
App-based ride services such as uberX, Lyft and Sidecar could put unlimited drivers on the road at a time under a deal Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced Monday.
A group challenging an Ohio election law that makes it a crime to make “false statements” about a candidate’s record during a campaign has standing to challenge the constitutionality of that law, according to today’s unanimous Supreme Court decision.
A state law criminalizing consensual homosexual conduct is unconstitutional, an Alabama appeals court has ruled.
Despite Idaho's vaunted distaste for the federal government, it's one of just four states where getting a permit for dumping pollutants into waterways requires dealing with the federal Environmental Protection Agency instead of the state.
Government leaders in the Chesapeake Bay watershed on Monday signed a broad agreement to restore the health of its waters, as the blue crab and oyster populations continue to fluctuate and scientists complain about toxins that are changing the sex of fish.
The former campaign manager for New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) pleaded guilty on Monday to illegally grabbing emails meant for the governor and other top officials.
A new report claims there's an historic shift in suburbs from being car-dependent to walkable places, blurring the lines between "urban" and "suburban."
Michigan is seeing its first major funding increase for higher education in more than a decade, and it's thanks in part to a plan by businesses to improve the state's workforce.
Officials in the Long Island town will restrict what information employees and vendors can release without official consent.
The governor has signed a new law banning police use of ticket quotas.
The law allowing a marijuana derivative for the treatment of seizures remains unused due to roadblocks written into the legislation.
Mayor of Eric Garcetti will create a list of dangerous buildings in his city.
The mayor announced a "consensus measure" for the November ballot that would boost the city's minimum wage to $15 by 2018.
A report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has ranked states based on economic and technological trends.
Which places have chief data officers? Ranks of government CDOs grow as agencies implement analytics.
A review of Mayor for Life, the recently published autobiography of former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry.
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