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The deadly situations illustrate what experts increasingly see as two common reasons for unnecessary storm deaths: unfamiliar terrain that leads to bad decisions, and people ignoring too-familiar warnings that haven’t panned out in the past.
As California prepares to expand Medicaid coverage to young adults living in the state illegally, the number of undocumented immigrant children in the program is slowly declining, new state data show.
The Congressional Budget Office said in a report released Monday that nearly doubling the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour could cost 1.3 million jobs when fully implemented by 2025, though millions would see higher wages and the number of Americans living in poverty would decrease.
New research suggests legalizing recreational marijuana for U.S. adults in some states may have slightly reduced teens’ odds of using pot.
It’s early morning when the first cruise liner of the day approaches Vancouver’s waterfront.
John Hickenlooper was in the midst of explaining why he’s not worried about his standing in the 2020 presidential polls when something caught his eye outside the driver’s side window of his black SUV as it sped through the rolling countryside of central Iowa.
Last summer, Jennifer Knowles helped her three sons set up a lemonade stand in their Denver neighborhood.
A South Florida principal who refused to say the Holocaust was a "factual, historical event" will be reassigned to a district position immediately, the Palm Beach County School District confirmed Monday.
U.S. House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings amid reports that the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been using facial recognition to scan state driver’s license databases without the approval of Congress, state legislatures or citizens.
States that started the new fiscal year, which began July 1, without a final budget. They are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
The decision increases the focus on often-ignored state legislative elections, where the GOP has recently dominated.
Your website visitors are just as diverse as the community you serve and to deny them access to the content on your webpage is the same as not providing them access to your physical location.
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver’s license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show.
Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against having a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, Acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli said he thinks the Trump administration will find a way to include it.
Gov. Phil Murphy marked the Fourth of July holiday by announcing two new initiatives to assist immigrants settling in New Jersey.
Ankle bracelets are promoted as a humane alternative to jail. But private companies charge defendants hundreds of dollars a month to wear the surveillance devices. If people can’t pay, they may end up behind bars.
Gov. Gina Raimondo's unwillingness so far to sign to sign the proposed new $9.9-billion budget for the year that began on July 1 has landed Rhode Island on Moody's list of states with "weak governance."
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is staking his name and presidential campaign on battling “dark money” — a commonly used term for secretive political cash meant to influence elections.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking the Trump administration's help in responding to the the 7.1 earthquake in Southern California that on Friday damaged roads, sparked fires and caused numerous injuries.
A small sign taped to a gun case at big-box retailer Walmart in central Santa Fe says the store -- and all Walmarts across New Mexico -- will stop selling firearms later this month after a new state law took effect requiring background checks on sales of nearly all firearms.
While abortion bans in Republican-led states dominated headlines in recent weeks, a handful of other states have expanded abortion access. Maine joined those ranks in June with two new laws ― one requires all insurance and Medicaid to cover the procedure and the other allows physician assistants and nurses with advanced training to perform it.
A Cook County judge ruled this week that Illinois lawmakers violated the state constitution when they voted to freeze their pay every year from 2009 through 2016.
China has disrupted our once-thriving recycling programs. Cities and counties should be investing in the recycling industry, not incinerators.
Time a driver's license can be suspended, under a new law, for refusing a police officer's request to take a sobriety test in the state of Kansas. The maximum suspension is the same for failure of a breathalyzer or blood test.
Liz White, on learning that her fertility doctor substituted his own sperm for what she thought came from an anonymous medical student donor. Her home state of Indiana, and Texas, have since made fertility fraud a crime.
Local governments are offering employees home loans and even housing if they reside among the people they serve.
The move to print the census without the question came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Commerce Department had failed to justify its proposal.
Cities and counties pursuing hundreds of similar cases against Insys are not part of the deal, nor are several states that had already agreed to put their lawsuits on hold.
It's not clear Gov. Ducey has the power to block the factory, or the incentives.
New instances of fertility fraud in Indiana — and Texas — can be prosecuted under laws recently signed by the governors of both states. But they are the only states that make fertility fraud specifically illegal. Experts expect other states to follow suit.
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