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The policy was intended to discourage government dependence. It didn’t seem to work.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson spearheaded the streamlining.
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Washington state is going further than any other to cover aging Americans' medical bills.
As the EPA and Congress debate PFAS regulations, local governments are taking action to protect people from toxic chemicals used in the production of practically everything.
Still, a few states may miss the July deadline, leading to a government shutdown in some.
White enrollment in private schools creates stark disparities in many districts.
The ruling, which united an unusual coalition of justices, could boost Democrats' chances in November.
Stormy Deere, a resident of Redwood, Miss., whose home is surrounded by chest-deep water that's expected to stay there until at least July, months after record rainfall caused parts of the Mississippi River to flood for the longest time since 1927. She now travels by boat.
Long-term health care workers who are immigrants. According to a new study, the Trump administration's immigration policies could worsen workforce shortages in this industry, which already suffers from high turnover.
The bill, SB 168, requires local and state law enforcement officials and entities to honor federal "immigration detainer" requests, which ask a law enforcement agency to detain someone on probable cause that they are "removable" under federal immigration laws.
California is beefing up Obamacare, restoring an individual mandate, expanding health insurance subsidies well into the middle class and covering some undocumented adults through Medicaid.
The high court unanimously ruled that the actual language of the 556-word amendment -- although dense and complex -- should have been presented to voters on the statewide ballot last November.
City officials said the contribution, which would be included in the budget being negotiated between the Council and the mayor’s office, would allow about 500 women to terminate their pregnancies.
Texas has resisted recent attempts to change its vaccine laws, allowing parents to get their children exemptions for "reasons of conscience."
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said she was "sick" over a video showing a police officer pointing his gun at a mother and her two children, while another cop slammed a father against a car and kicked him because of shoplifting allegations.
With jobs unfilled and young people moving away, some rural states are doubling down on efforts to attract new blood by expanding programs that offer incentives to live there.
Hours that California utilities will start charging customers extra for weekday energy use. It will be the first to implement statewide surge pricing.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, after her department announced that it was dropping the remaining criminal charges for the Flint water crisis. The cases were dismissed without prejudice -- meaning they could be refiled -- in order to conduct a full and complete investigation.
In expanding its program that lets residents vote on public spending, New York City is enlivening democracy and engaging the electorate.
Eight remaining Flint water prosecutions have been dismissed by the Department of Attorney General, officials said Thursday, June 13.
The order, in a second major case challenging the laws that passed after a Democrat was elected governor but before he took office, reinstates a law that reduced the power of Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul to drop out of or settle cases.
Both the Democrat-led Assembly and Senate spent the previous hours wrangling over whether or not to repeal the exemption, which allows parents not immunize their children because of their religious beliefs.
As the Supreme Court considers a challenge to a citizenship question in the 2020 census, the U.S. Census Bureau will start testing the question’s effect on participation this week.
For more than a decade, New York City officials stood by while thousands of cabdrivers became mired in reckless loans that saddled them with debt they could not afford and helped lead to a near-collapse of the industry.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is taking steps to temporarily hand over power to the state’s No. 2 officeholder later this month when he travels to Europe for a trade mission and a vacation.
The town, which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, has fewer than 2,300 residents, is located right next to the Texas-Louisiana border (roughly 28 miles west of Shreveport).
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the hyper-loyal mouthpiece for President Trump and his scandal-scarred administration, said Thursday she's leaving the White House at the end of this month -- and her soon-to-be ex-boss sent her off with a plea to run for governor of Arkansas.
This week, Maine joined the seven other states that have legalized physician-assisted suicide -- otherwise known as "death with dignity" or "aid in dying" -- for terminally ill people.
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