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While many think it might be the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico, there's also a push to make it Chicago. Eight Illinois lawmakers, all Republicans, have cosigned a statehood resolution.
The 5-4 ruling is both a win for the California Franchise Tax Board and a victory for the conservative principle of state "sovereign immunity."
Many rural, often conservative, residents of large Democratic-controlled states are tired of being overshadowed politically, culturally and economically by big cities.
Newsom adopted a policy of his predecessor, former Gov. Jerry Brown, to use his state constitutional authority to issue pardons to shield immigrants targeted by federal immigration officials.
Bullock has managed to win several statewide elections in predominantly rural Montana by running as a moderate who also embraces some liberal proposals.
In his veto letter to Secretary of State Laurel Lee, he said municipalities that prohibit plastic straws have not "frustrated any state policy" or "harmed the state's interest."
In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley ruled the law is unconstitutional because it restricts a woman's constitutional right to an abortion before the fetus is considered viable, at around 24 weeks.
Those Florida counties have, essentially, been running English-only elections: voter registration materials, guides, instructions, ballots and other materials were only provided in English.
For the 7,800 people of Fort Scott, about 90 miles south of Kansas City, the hospital’s closure was a loss they never imagined possible, sparking anger and fear.
Tim Storey, who will take over as NCSL's executive director, has pledged to maintain the organization's bipartisan approach.
Amount by which Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc is accused of inflating some drug prices. More than 40 state attorneys general are suing the drug company.
Shawn Sample, a karate instructor, after Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill to remove nunchucks from the list of weapons prohibited in public.
The Trump administration is pulling some federal funding from California. But that project and others like it are quickly moving forward.
It turns out that the same lethal drug that has been driving the nation’s spiraling opioid epidemic is also causing an historic surge in overdose deaths among cocaine users.
The bill continues the program, which began in 2016, and provides health insurance to about 95,000 low-income adults.
The law faces an almost certain court challenge, likely backed by the state's largest teachers union, the Florida Education Association.
On Friday, the state's Republican governor, Doug Ducey signed a bill removing nunchucks from a list of prohibited weapons that includes bombs, gun silencers and automatic firearms.
Over the past few decades, as a manufacturing decline left homes vacant and storefronts dark, New York’s upstate cities opened their doors to refugees.
HB 1050 reclassifies possession of up to a half ounce of marijuana by adults 21 and older as an infraction punishable by no jail time and a maximum fine of $1,000.
Garner was killed July 17, 2014, as police in Staten Island tried to arrest him for selling loose cigarettes.
The 20 drug companies engaged in illegal conspiracies to divide up the market for drugs to avoid competing and, in some cases, conspired to either prevent prices from dropping or to raise them, according to the complaint by 44 U.S. states, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut.
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For years, hundreds of cities and counties have been saving money by letting their employees use cheaper drugs from other countries.
Thad Kousser, a political scientist who says the current and former governors running for president will be hurt in the primary by their moderate politics and policies. Two governors have already entered the 2020 race -- Jay Inslee of Washington and John Hickenlooper of Colorado -- and Montana's Steve Bullock is expected to join this week.
States where at least one legislative chamber has passed a resolution that declares pornography consumption a public health crisis. The Republican Party made the issue part of its national platform in 2016.
The administration raised the possibility of changing the poverty calculation in a notice published this week in the Federal Register.
This week the Arizona Senate approved a measure urging the state to prevent exposure and addiction to porn, drawing criticism from some experts who say the approach is misguided and poses risks.
The Senate abruptly removed a rape and incest exception from the bill without allowing a roll call vote on that decision.
"This homeless issue is, rightfully, top of mind for people all across the state that are outraged by it," Newsom told reporters during a news conference at the state Capitol.
The policy, added to the code in 1976, was recently scrutinized when a teacher at a San Francisco school had to cover the fees for the person subbing for her while she undergoes breast cancer treatment.
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