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Two states have passed laws this month that require doctors to have hospital privileges to perform abortions. Critics say the laws will have little impact on women's health and are purely politically motivated.
Washington state Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom has proposed fining legislators $250 for each day that they go beyond the allotted time in the legislative session. Recently, the state faced the prospect of a government shutdown when lawmakers could not agree on a budget.
The number of foreclosures nationwide dropped last month to the lowest level since December 2006. But the problem is still severe in Florida, Nevada, Illinois and Ohio, due largely to the lengthy foreclosure process in those states, a new report shows.
State lawmakers from West Virginia are coming to North Dakota this summer to learn more about the state's efforts to set aside tax money generated by the oil and gas industry.
Police and city leaders in Florida say they have taken precautionary steps for the possibility of mass protests or even civil unrest if George Zimmerman is acquitted in the killing of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, particularly in African-American neighborhoods where passions run strongest over the case.
Gov. Chris Christie cannot shut down an independent state agency charged with building affordable housing for New Jersey’s poorest residents, the state Supreme Court ruled today. The decision deals a blow to the Republican governor’s agenda and shields other independent agencies from similar power grabs.
D.C. lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a bill requiring some large retailers to pay their employees a 50 percent premium over the city’s minimum wage, a day after Wal-Mart warned that the law would jeopardize its plans in the city.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane is expected to announce Thursday that her office won't defend the state in a federal lawsuit that challenges Pennsylvania's ban on gay marriage, the Daily News has learned.
Bill de Blasio, a candidate for mayor, was slapped into plastic cuffs on Wednesday and driven off in a white police van from outside the Midtown Manhattan offices of the State University of New York chancellor, where Mr. de Blasio led a demonstration against the possible closing of Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn.
A Democratic state senator Wednesday called on Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) to step down over a growing gifts scandal, becoming the first elected official to directly demand his resignation.
The first salvo in a legal battle to block Colorado's new limits on gun ammunition magazines fizzled Wednesday, but sheriffs, firearm dealers and other opponents still aim to have the law declared unconstitutional.
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States, which Education Secretary Arne Duncan says are a vital part to federal financial aid reform, are pushing ahead with their plans to make college affordable and accessible.
Lawmakers of both parties Tuesday rejected yet again his deadline for solving the state's public pension nightmare amid rising criticism that Quinn would rather pressure them through public pronouncements than get involved in the nitty-gritty of legislative negotiations.
Members voted 96-49 on the measure, which now sends the one of the nation's most restrictive abortion laws in the country to the Texas Senate, where passage appears certain.
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A Belhaven, Miss., man, who has made it his personal crusade to draw attention to the high number of potholes by stealing asphalt from the city and fixing them.
The estimated number of uninsured Ohioans who will miss out on health coverage if the state legislature doesn't heed Gov. John Kasich's call to return to session and reconsider expanding Medicaid.
In an effort to get the word out about their new health exchanges, Massachusetts and Colorado are making use of local sports teams.
Investing in sports teams and stadiums is usually a bad deal for cities. Glendale, Ariz.'s multimillion-dollar bet on its hockey team looks like one for the penalty box.
A week after state lawmakers adjourned for summer recess, Gov. John Kasich and other supporters of expanding Medicaid packed into the Statehouse yesterday to urge legislators to return to Columbus to extend tax-funded health coverage to tens of thousands poor, uninsured Ohioans.
The ACLU announced a trio of lawsuits that will test the constitutionality of state laws barring gay marriage. The suits, filed in Pennsylvania and North Carolina with another to come in Virginia, are part of a carefully crafted effort to capitalize on the Supreme Court’s recent same-sex marriage ruling striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals, the Center for Investigative Reporting has found.
The world’s largest retailer delivered an ultimatum to District lawmakers Tuesday, telling them less than 24 hours before a decisive vote that at least three planned Wal-Marts will not open in the city if a super-minimum-wage proposal becomes law.
Lawmakers made Illinois the last state to allow concealed carry of firearms in two quick votes Tuesday that formalized the deepening rift between Gov. Pat Quinn and the legislature.
Tyler Olson, the youthful face of Iowa Democrats, is running for governor at a time when the Republican Party is worried about its ability to connect with younger voters.
Every year the town draws a name during its Taste of Dorset Festival, and the winner gets to be mayor.
The Texas House on Tuesday night provisionally approved tough new abortion restrictions, making good on a third attempt to pass the measure this year.
A former assistant secretary in President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, Kayyem would bring an unconventional political profile to the race to succeed outgoing Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick.
The money to the corporation and Maureen McDonnell brings to $145,000 the amount Williams gave to assist the McDonnell family in 2011 and 2012 — funds that are now at the center of federal and state investigations.
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