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Comedian Louis C.K., who also tweeted photos of his children's math homework problems, questioning whether they were even written by teachers.
Hawaii lawmakers voted late on Tuesday to raise the U.S. state's hourly minimum wage to $10.10 from the federal minimum $7.25 at a time of heated national debate over wages and rising income inequality.
Gov. Jay Inslee issues an executive order to fight climate change and appoints a new task force to find ways for Washington to reduce pollution.
A new S&P report ranks how states have recovered from the recession and warns some states about policies they're pursuing.
Illinois Medicaid moves to managed care in a change designed to fix a system widely understood to be broken.
Mayor Michael Nutter signed an executive order Tuesday immediately banning smoking in city parks.
Gov. Nathan Deal signs legislation to take the power to expand Medicaid away from the governor and give it to the General Assembly. The move ensures that even if a Democrat were elected governor, he couldn't expand Medicaid without obtaining legislative approval -- an unlikely event in Georgia.
Under the Affordable Care Act, young adults who have been recently released from foster care can get Medicaid coverage until age 26, regardless of their incomes. For states, the trickiest part may be finding them.
Clayton Lockett's botched death occurred after a constitutional showdown over Oklahoma's execution secrecy laws. It is likely to provoke strong criticism from death penalty opponents at a time when similar policies on lethal injections have come under attack.
In a decision that could have implications nationally and in Wisconsin's November elections, a federal judge on Tuesday struck down the state's voter ID law, saying it violated the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution.
In his second high-profile deviation from state practice since January, Attorney General Mark Herring has moved to let the offspring of those living in the United States illegally pay in-state tuition at Virginia public colleges and, in the process, bucked a General Assembly that rejected such policy.
The Florida Senate on Tuesday paved the way for final passage of a contentious bill allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at Florida colleges and universities.
Gov. Chris Christie turned to a Democrat today to fix the problems at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, naming former state Attorney General John Degnan to head the embattled bi-state agency at the center of the George Washington Bridge lane closing scandal.
Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) plans to consolidate U.S. sales, engineering and finance operations to suburban Dallas, sending 4,000 jobs from California, New York and Kentucky to a new North American headquarters.
Percent of American households that are "middle class," earning between $35,000 to $100,000 annually. In the mid-1970s, 52 percent of U.S. households were earning the equivalent amount.
To sustain excellence over time, governments need to build leadership at all levels of their organizations.
Now that Vermont is the first state in the nation with an active law requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods, attention turns to other Northeast states and the West Coast.
With the "Grow America Act," the Obama administration wants to spur Congress to find money for roads, rail and transit before the federal government runs out of transportation money this summer.
Former New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley, explaining why he believes it's necessary to prohibit electronic cigarettes in the same manner as real ones.
Ramsey County District Judge John Guthmann said Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie doesn't have the authority to create the voter registration system he launched last year.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed the Obama administration an important victory in its effort to reduce power plant pollution that contributes to unhealthy air in neighboring states.
Gov. Martin O'Malley and the TV show announced Friday that they had reached an agreement that would allow the third season of the political drama to be filmed in the state, despite the Maryland offering less in incentives than producers wanted.
State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler took heat from both insurers and hospitals, but he’s adopting new rules on network adequacy anyway, saying he needs to protect consumers.
New hydraulic fracturing rules mean residents will increase information available to concerned residents and keep better track of water impacts.
The error would calculate an employee's retirement benefits as of last year instead of this year, leading to a more significant reduction than intended.
Kathleen Kane says she will the release information gathered about an aborted sting operation to Philadelphia prosecutors.
Number of people sentenced to death in the United States between 1973 and 2004 (about 4 percent) who were likely innocent.
With increasing partisan polarization, there's little reason for a Democratic or Republican governor to head to the middle, putting governors with bipartisan appeal at risk of becoming extinct.
A group of Charlotte-area ministers helped launch the country's first faith-based challenge to same-sex marriage bans, claiming in a lawsuit filed Monday that North Carolina's laws block them from practicing their religion.
A Commonwealth Court judge on Monday denied the Corbett administration's request to reconsider his ruling overturning the state's two-year-old voter identification law.
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