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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.
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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.
Ten new cities join the next City Accelerator cohort to leverage municipal spending and nurture diverse businesses.
Planned Parenthood will continue providing abortions at least until a St. Louis judge issues a ruling in the clinic's legal battle with the state Department of Health and Senior Services, which on Friday declined to renew the facility's license.
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Among other things, the amended rules ease the requirements on certain foods containing marijuana and on state residency requirements for operating a recreational marijuana businesses.
Threats against the state lawmakers and government officials come amid a clash between Democrats and Republicans, specifically over a sweeping greenhouse gas emissions cap-trade-bill.
The bill’s signing makes Illinois the first state to forbid such detention centers.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to scrap the entrance exam attracted national fanfare when it was announced, but it soon collided with stubborn realities.
New Jersey's governor on Thursday signed a law to improve rideshare safety in honor of Robbinsville, New Jersey, native Samantha "Sami" Josephson, a college student who was kidnapped and killed after she got into a car she mistakenly thought was an Uber.
The federal guidelines for bus fire safety haven't been significantly updated in nearly 50 years, according to the NTSB.
Dave Bauer, the CEO of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, says the Trump administration and Congress need to pitch in to help states accomplish their transportation goals.
Current and former police officers whose offensive social media posts have been compiled and published by the watchdog Plain View Project. Several law enforcement agencies have since taken disciplinary action against those officers or launched their own investigations.
Oregon state Sen. Brian Boquist, one of the nearly dozen Republican lawmakers who went into hiding or left the state last week to prevent the chamber from voting on a bill that would create a cap-and-trade system in the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Democratic governor sent the state police to find them.
A playbook developed by religious interest groups was used to push controversial new laws in statehouses nationwide.
The EPA's Affordable Clean Energy rule rescinds the Obama administration's ambitious Clean Power Plan and replaces it with less stringent guidelines for states and coal-fired power plants to reduce their emissions.
The screenshots of the public posts, published in the Plain View Project's online database, purport to show officers or police department employees making hateful or racist remarks.
All 11 Republican senators are in hiding, at least some of them out of state, in order to prevent the Senate from having the quorum it needs to operate.
The #MeToo movement, along with advocacy by former staffers who reported harassment, helped usher in changes in Albany.
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