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Former Gov. Jerry Brown proposed the project as a first step to start addressing allegations of gender-based harassment in state government that were coming out amid the #MeToo movement.
The issue of parental rights for rapists gained fresh relevance in May, after Alabama lawmakers passed the nation’s strictest ban on abortion.
With a growing number of local jails refusing to honor ICE detainers, routine traffic stops have become “one more tool” for the federal government “to detain and deport people.”
Under the law, Connecticut workers at firms of one or more employee will be eligible for paid time off to care for a newborn, a newly adopted or foster child, a seriously ill relative by blood or marriage or a close associate who is the equivalent of a family member.
The study from the department's inspector general first looked at 888 of the 2,495 bias-related complaints filed against NYPD officers between when the department began tracking such complaints in 2014 and the end of 2018.
State-level data from Arkansas, California, Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin and several Plains states underscores that lawyers cluster in urban areas.
LGBTQ people's representation in U.S. politics. Out of the nearly 520,000 elected offices, LGBTQ people hold 698 of them.
Aubrey Jewett, a political scientist at the University of Central Florida
At issue was whether confidentiality, as used in a section of the Freedom of Information Act, means anything intended to be kept secret or only information likely to cause harm if publicized.
Under the ordinance, "no person shall sell or distribute an electronic cigarette to a person in San Francisco" without first passing a Food and Drug Administration review, which no e-cigarette brand has done.
The law provides for selected businesses to be licensed to grow, process, transport and sell the drug. The bill also provides for expungement -- the nullification of lower-level cannabis possession convictions -- and funding for minority neighborhoods hit hardest by prosecution of marijuana possession.
Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Val DiGiorgio resigned Tuesday after The Inquirer reported that he had traded sexually explicit messages with a onetime GOP candidate for Philadelphia City Council.
Judith Persichilli would be the first nurse to hold the job that includes licensing and inspecting hospitals and nursing homes, responding to public health emergencies and running the medicinal marijuana program.
The state routinely has some of the nation’s highest rates of domestic violence, sexual assault and murder.
The amended bill says internet service providers that are contracted by the state have to agree to provide "net neutral service."
Some state vehicles in Maryland will be outfitted with digital license plates as part of a two-year pilot program to see if the developing technology could work for customers.
There are more lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans politicians than ever before, but they only make up .1 percent of elected officials.
The potential change in the federal poverty line would lower the number of people who qualify for social services by almost 1 million.
National Guard troops that the Texas governor said on Friday that he will deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border, which will double the number of Texas troops there.
G. Kemble Bennett, on how he thought of "Disaster City," a mock municipality where Texas A&M’s Emergency Services Training Institute prepares first responders from around the world for the worst disasters. The "city" has derailed train cars, a leaking chemical tank, a strip mall, an office complex, a single-family home and a theater, to name a few.
Gov. Abbott said the troops will have two main roles: to help at temporary holding facilities for single adult migrants in the Rio Grande Valley and in El Paso, and to help Border Patrol units along ports of entry.
After calling the bill a "fig leaf" aimed at saving Louisiana's attorney general from embarrassment, Gov. John Bel Edwards quietly signed into a law a measure pushed by one of his political rivals that aims to eventually offer some protections to patients if the Affordable Care Act is overturned.
Nebraska was one of three states with Republican-controlled legislatures where voters last year approved an expansion.
There are powerful market forces at work.
The mock municipality began taking shape in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Now, it is part of Texas A&M’s nearly 300-acre Emergency Services Training Institute, which attracts firefighters and other first responders from around the globe.
This latest challenge shows how schools struggle to fill empty teaching positions and maintain teaching standards.
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group's annual list of “highway boondoggles” includes nine transportation projects that will cost a total of $25 billion while driving up emissions.
More people are registering as Republicans than Democrats in states with gubernatorial elections this year and in some 2020 battleground states.
Ransom that hackers demanded from Riviera Beach, Fla., which is equivalent to $600,000. The city paid it. The cyberattack forced local police and fire departments to write 911 calls on paper.
Tom Cochran, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, referring to West Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Christopher Cabaldon.
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