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Chicago's new mayor is the latest to carve out a position for a chief equity officer who focuses on racial and economic diversity and discrimination.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld part of an unusual Indiana abortion law that requires clinics to bury or cremate the remains of a fetus. The justices in a short opinion said the law did not violate a woman's right to choose abortion.
A game of chicken is underway between a pair of airports and the FAA.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to put on hold partisan gerrymandering cases from Ohio and Michigan, temporarily sparing Republican lawmakers in those states of the need to redraw congressional districts by the summer.
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, at about six weeks of pregnancy.
In an emergency, government must convince people it knows best for them. That's easier said than done.
Older metros don’t grow the same way younger ones do. Why don’t we acknowledge that?
How can you build a great place? Expand the number of people who own it.
Coordinating commissions have fallen out of favor. It’s time to bring them back.
With falling ridership and scrapped expansion projects, urban transit faces an uncertain future.
Queens, N.Y., will soon join the list of places electing district attorneys who reject the tough-on-crime policies of the past. But their approach isn't always well-received by governors.
Gary, Ind., Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, a Democrat, talking about Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, a Republican.
State legislators who are Republican women, which represents a decline from before the 2018 midterm elections. Democratic women, by contrast, increased their numbers after November.
Embattled Secretary of State David Whitley -- whose office wrongly challenged the citizenship of thousands of Texas voters -- resigned Monday.
The eight-week ban will take effect in late August.
Oklahoma initially sued three large opioid manufacturers and their affiliated companies, but two of the groups have entered into settlement agreements and been dropped from the lawsuit.
The Education Department “continues to require eligible veterans to take affirmative steps to secure the loan forgiveness that is their statutory right,” the attorneys general wrote.
In their suit, the state attorneys general, all Democrats, said the rule will disrupt their longstanding labor arrangements and make it harder for home care professionals to work together to improve their jobs and better serve their elderly and disabled clients.
The surge of forms that landed in the months before Election Day was chaotic and consuming, according to officials in the state’s two largest counties.
House Bill 1177 passed by a vote of 16-15 and now heads to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature or veto.
On Memorial Day, 51 tornadoes were reported across eight states -- Idaho, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio -- and severe weather is forecast to continue Tuesday and Wednesday.
More people are believed to be relying on family and friends to watch their kids. Minneapolis is helping to educate those informal providers.
More than half of mayors discussed it during their annual State of the City addresses this year -- double the number four years ago.
Clarke Forsythe of the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life, referring to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case guaranteeing women the right to an abortion.
States where the measles has made a comeback in the last year, most recently in Maine. The vaccine-preventable infection can cause pneumonia, encephalitis, brain damage and death.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported the state's first measles case in two years on Tuesday, adding Maine to the growing list of states affected by one the nation's most severe measles outbreak in decades.
The Mueller report indicated the FBI believed Russian hackers sent more than 120 "spearphishing" emails to elections officials throughout the state in 2016.
The legislation brings Maryland to the forefront of states using energy policy to promote investment in green technology.
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