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In the aftermath of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racially derogatory comments, some are urging the team to move 30 miles south to Orange County.
The City Accelerator will give nine cities the opportunity to work in three-city cohorts to focus on areas where there is a clear model of innovation ready for implementation and adaptation.
A federal judge has ordered a halt to the "John Doe" investigation about the recall campaign of Gov. Scott Walker and "all or nearly all right-of-center groups and individuals in Wisconsin who have engaged in issue advocacy from 2010 to the present."
The term “driver’s license” is only useful if people are thinking of it as an optional authentication tool, not as a permit to do something.
Federal authorities rejected California's proposed design for a driver's license for immigrants in the U.S. illegally, saying it looks too much like permits given to citizens.
Despite opposition from the governor and law enforcement, the Senate passed a medical pot bill. The next stage is where it gets tough.
Tim Donnelly said Neel Kashkari "supported the United States submitting to the Islamic, Shariah banking code in 2008."
In a nonpartisan N.C. Supreme Court race that brought controversy over outside money and negative campaign ads, partial returns showed a Democrat and a Republican as the top vote-getters Tuesday in a three-way primary contest.
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.
The death penalty should be overhauled "from the moment of arrest to the moment of death," and the lethal drug cocktail used in Oklahoma's botched execution last week should be abolished in favor of a single drug, according to a bipartisan panel of criminal justice experts.
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.
A recent Urban Institute analysis shows how many years new state workers will need to put in before earning pension benefits from their employers.
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A controversial strip club fee that lawmakers approved in 2007 is still winding its way through the courts, but Comptroller Susan Combs is demanding the clubs to pay six years' worth of “pole taxes.”
In response to the Cover Oregon health exchange fiasco, the Beaver State has placed tighter restrictions on outsourcing IT projects. The effort could signal the start of a national trend.
Cooler weather contributed to the rare dip, but safety experts say universal helmet laws are the best way to save lives in the long run.
Perceiving threats to America’s hunting heritage, sportsmen push for constitutional hunting and fishing rights.
Sriracha sauce becomes a hot political issue with bipartisan backing.
Washington county retreats from a proposed building ban in slide-prone areas.
The Smartphone 'kill switch' bill will have another shot in the California Senate.
Maximum number of cars rideshare companies can have on the road at any time in Seattle. The city was the first to put a cap on this.
Total cost of Phoenix's public-employee retirement system in 2013. The system's fund now only has enough money to cover about 56 percent of its obligations.
Sign posted at an electronic cigarette vendor's booth at a Tennessee Sheriffs Association conference. E-cigarette companies have begun pushing their products to jails and prisons, which can sell the devices to inmates at a profit.
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.
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