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A St. Louis judge has ordered that Missouri's sole outpatient abortion provider -- the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis -- be allowed to keep its doors open for now.
Emboldened by encouraging internal poll numbers and growing support from fellow Democrats — though most never retracted their calls for him to step down — Gov. Ralph Northam is becoming more assertive.
The bill, which takes effect before the 2020 election, makes it drastically harder to collect enough signatures to make it onto voters’ ballots.
The governor's opposition does not kill the project but it does set up political hurdles that figure to be formidable.
The seat is currently held by Councilman Dwight Boykins, who recently filed paperwork indicating he will run for mayor, according to earlier reports in the Houston Chronicle.
It's the first state where the legislature -- not voters -- legalized cannabis sales. But that's not all that makes it unique.
People who are being kicked off Medicaid in Georgia because, according to the state, they did not respond to renewal notices. Patients say they never received them; their lawyers say there's evidence that they were never sent.
Statement from the Florida GOP House Speaker José Oliva and Rules Chair Chris Sprowls, calling on state Rep. Mike Hill to apologize for his reaction to a constituent’s recommendation to introduce legislation that would legalize the execution of gay people.
Since the Black Lives Matter movement gained prominence in 2013, much of the public focus has been on African Americans. But broader racial and ethnic coalitions pushed the recent changes in policing practices in a handful of states.
Last month, Alabama lawmakers considered a bill that addressed ending parental rights in cases of rape that result in conception, but the legislature removed that language, limiting the law to cases in which people sexually assault their children.
The state Department of Community Health said the 17,000 had simply not responded to renewal notices informing them how to continue their coverage.
The new law, which goes into effect on July 1, 2020, would require providers to ask for permission before they sell or share any of their customers' data to a third party.
The legislation addresses “not only the tragedy that took place at Santa Fe,” Gov. Greg Abbott said, “but will do more than Texas has ever done to make schools safer places for our students, for our educators, for our parents and families.”
The agreement includes funding to let young undocumented young adults under age 26 enroll in Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income Californians. But it doesn’t extend that eligibility to undocumented seniors, as state senators had proposed.
Jada Andrews-Sullivan will represent District 2, Adriana Rocha Garcia will represent District 4 and Melissa Cabello Havrda will represent District 6.
The first African-American woman to lead Cook County's State's Attorney's Office talks about how she's making it more transparent and where her confidence comes from.
Unanimous ruling from the Washington state Supreme Court against a florist who refused service to a same-sex couple. The court ruled that selling floral arrangements is not speech and thus not protected by the First Amendment.
Ice cream trucks that New York City seized last week for repeatedly violating traffic laws and not paying fines.
As police now routinely seek access to people’s cellphones, privacy advocates see a dangerous erosion of Americans’ rights, with courts scrambling to keep up.
The move could cut costs and mark a broader change that influences nuclear sites across the country. But some nuclear watchers have warned it could also make Americans less safe.
Lawmakers gave final passage Tuesday to the measure aimed at defending abortion bans in the future, part of a wave of abortion bills being passed in Louisiana and across the country this year.
The state Supreme Court reaffirmed a ruling it made in 2017, after the U.S. Supreme Court sent the case back to Washington to determine whether it had been handled with "religious neutrality," as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
In 1999, 13 people were killed by two students in a mass shooting at the school in Littleton, Colorado. Nearly two dozen others were injured.
Prior to her time in the Senate, Linda Collins-Smith served one term in the state House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013. While she was elected as a Democrat, she swapped parties just months after taking office.
The University of Alabama is expected to return a $21.5 million donation it received in September after the donor advised women against attending the school because of the state's new abortion ban, according to The Associated Press.
Commissioner James O'Neill began his briefing on the security measures for this year's Pride Month events, which include the June 30 Pride March, by addressing the NYPD's actions at the Greenwich Village bar in 1969.
As transit agencies move away from fossil fuels, they are figuring out which environmentally friendly option is right for them.
Whether it's violence like the Virginia Beach shooting at a municipal building, or danger due to the nature of the job, government workers lack health and safety protections in nearly half the states.
The state, which has worse credit than any other and has had chronic budget deficits, passed a fiscal plan this week that relies on new revenue sources to help pay down its massive debt.
Size of the disaster relief bill that Congress sent to President Trump this week. The passage of the package ends what was the longest delay between a disaster and congressional aid.
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