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Fewer people died in Massachusetts after the state required people to have health insurance, according to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health.
In a decision likely to reduce life-without-parole sentences for teenage offenders, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that judges are free to hand down 25-year-to-life terms for older juveniles convicted of serious crimes and must consider the defendants' youth before sentencing.
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Saturday he supports allowing same-sex couples to wed but will continue defending his state's 2004 ban on gay marriages in court.
Massachusetts’ first-in-the-nation insurance exchange, which broke when the state changed it to comply with Obamacare, will be revamped or closed in favor of the U.S. enrollment system, officials said.
The Republican State Leadership Committee in Washington, which pools donations from corporations and individuals to promote conservatives in state politics, is now broadening its scope to target judicial races.
The Texas governor talks 2016 on "Meet the Press."
North Las Vegas could be the next city to risk bankruptcy if its current trends continue, a new report warns.
Newark race becomes a battleground for much wider power in the state.
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case that many analysts believed might have delivered another landmark Second Amendment decision expanding gun rights in the United States.
Vowing to strengthen Maryland's middle class, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Monday that will gradually raise the state's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour -- his No. 1 priority for the final legislative session of his eight years in office.
The Supreme Court said Monday that city councils and other public boards are free to open their meetings with an explicitly Christian prayer, ruling that judges may not act as "censors of religious speech" simply because the prayers reflect the views of the dominant faith.
Some schools are hiring teachers as revenues increase, others struggle.
Even with Obamacare, many Latinos still seek treatment In Mexico.
Seattle recently became the first city to limit the number of rideshare cars. City Councilwoman Sally Clark talks about the controversial regulations that have since been suspended.
Actor Joel McHale, roasting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie while hosting this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Actor Joel McHale, in his speech as host of the 2014 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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A group of wealthy liberal donors who helped bankroll the Center for American Progress and other major advocacy groups on the left is developing a new big-money strategy that could boost state-level Democratic candidates and mobilize core party voters.
Though the federal government allocated more than $1.8 billion in Hurricane Sandy disaster relief aid for New Jersey more than a year ago, less that a quarter has been distributed to cash-strapped residents struggling to rebuild, according to a new state report.
The last time there was a major overhaul in school governance was the late 1800s.
When the session ended late Friday, legislative leaders shamelessly celebrated their success at bolstering rICK Scott’s prospects as they put a punctuation mark on an election-year session that lays the groundwork for the upcoming campaign.
Jails in Tennessee — including Sumner and Rutherford counties — are allowing inmates to smoke electronic cigarettes behind bars to help pacify what can be a rowdy population, but also as a revenue source.
Less than 10 years after many cities rushed to draw restrictions and boundaries on where registered sex offenders could live, the trend is now reversing after a court case ruled one city's restrictions in conflict of state interests.
Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases have pushed some states to try to make it tougher for parents to exempt their kids from immunization requirements. It's proving to be a hard sell in some states.
These days, most elections are won or lost long before Election Day in primaries in which tiny numbers of people vote. It's plunging our political system further into dysfunction.
A measure on the city's November ballot may not be a perfect way to fix its retirement system, but doing nothing is not an option.
Federal authorities have requested information about Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn's $55 million anti-violence initiative that has drawn fire for mismanagement and misspending.
The state Assembly passed a measure Thursday that is less notable for what it would do -- tweak the probate code -- than for how it was crafted: by the public, in an online "wiki" page.
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