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After the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision Thursday to lift an injunction on new abortion regulations in Texas, at least nine abortion facilities — about a quarter of the state's abortion providers — have discontinued abortion services in light of the new law.
Data-analysis techniques first developed by retailers to predict their customers' behavior are being adopted by police forces across the country, and they're seeing encouraging results.
Achievement and graduation rates are not going to improve if students are not showing up for school. It's an issue that's finally getting a lot of attention.
Despite some positive steps, the industry's outdated pension and disability policies continue to be a sweet deal for workers and a costly one for taxpayers.
Holding partisan mayoral elections ensures low voter turnout and disenfranchises vast numbers of voters. So does voting in odd-numbered years. We need to re-think how we approach these important elections.
The federal government decided during the recession to increase food stamp benefits to help low-income people. Starting Nov. 1, benefits return to their pre-recession level.
Texas is the only state that doesn't allow reverse mortgages for the purchase of a home.
The ruling means that Virginia -- a national leader on public-private partnerships -- will likely continue its tolling push.
Voters in Washington State have to decide Nov. 5 who to believe in the debate on a ballot initiative that requires grocers and food producers to label products with genetically engineered ingredients.
Total unemployment insurance paid to furloughed federal workers in Oregon, which they won't have to pay back despite receiving full compensation for their time off.
Los Angeles Times columnist Paul Whitefield, on the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to allow passenger use of portable electronic devices during flights.
An industrial designer has redone each of the flags of the states in the union to make them each carry a unified design across all 50 states.
City takes modest steps to fix pension ‘spiking’ rules
Higher prices for beef apparently are behind the trend across the West.
The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau is being threatened with legal action for using a slogan that resembles Vegas’s.
New Jersey governor sees outreach to nontraditional GOP voters as national model for party.
Colorado voters deciding how high to tax pot.
Is Comcast trying to defeat a candidate in Seattle?
With no commercial air service to some areas, candidates rely on small planes with volunteer pilots.
A federal appeals court stopped sweeping changes to the New York Police Department’s practice of stopping and frisking people on the street, criticized the trial judge’s conduct and removed her from the case.
Only 3 days after a federal judge blocked a new Texas law that threatened to shut down many of the state’s abortion clinics, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed the decision.
Amount spend by multi-national companies to help defeat an effort to require labeling of genetically modified foods in Washington State, compared to $7 million spent by supporters of the labeling.
Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac, on the impact on neighborhoods of houses that are still going through the foreclosure process but are left vacant.
Some think a new voting process could heal many of the nation's political system's ills.
A November ballot measure would make New Jersey the 11th state to index its minimum wage to cost-of-living increases.
Agencies were quick to process claims during the shutdown, but the way states are going about getting that money back from federal employees could be a lengthy one.
The transit agency is outfitting buses and intersections with technology designed to get pedestrians to pay attention.
Many states' housing markets have lots of property where either the banks have foreclosed but the homeowners still live there or the homeowners have long left but the bank hasn’t taken over the property.
Why states need social media policies
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