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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.
Rounding out the top 10 counties identified in the study as most at-risk for a measles outbreak are: Los Angeles; Miami-Dade; Queens, N.Y.; King, Wash.; Maricopa, Ariz.; Broward, Fla.; Clark, Nev.; Harris, Texas; and Honolulu.
Even with these bills' passage, Washington still is projected to fall short of the emission targets set by state law.
Warwick Public Schools had said it would serve sunflower butter and jelly sandwiches to students whose families are in arrears beginning Monday, sparking a public backlash and upsetting the mayor, who asked the school committee to reconsider.
Loss in gross domestic product that Texas could suffer in a three-month span from increased wait times at the state's ports of entry. In March, the Trump administration ordered hundreds of customs officers to instead help the U.S. Border Patrol, potentially slowing down trade with Mexico.
Jeff Hunt, director of the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University, a critic of Initiative 301, which voters passed this week to make Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.
Houston firefighters are getting what they wanted. But it's coming at a cost.
In turning its bail system around, New Jersey has shown a capacity for evidence-based policy innovation that's likely to serve as a national model.
Someday Congress may mandate it, but there's nothing to keep states from moving on their own.
Regional partnerships are a way to help low-income families gain the advantages of resource-rich areas. There's new support from Washington.
Most Americans live in states where marijuana is legally available in some form. But most banks don't want anything to do with money from the cannabis industry for fear it could expose them to legal trouble from the federal government, which still considers marijuana illegal.
More than two years into the Trump presidency, California has embraced its role as chief antagonist -- already suing the administration more times than Texas took President Obama to court during eight years in office.
The Democratic-led Senate approved the bill, 39-22, largely along party lines. It now goes to the overwhelmingly Democratic state Assembly, which plans to discuss the measure on Monday.
About 110,000 low-to median-income students will qualify for help each year, including adults who never got a degree and want to go to school. There will be no more financial-aid wait lists.
After closing an early vote deficit Tuesday night and early Wednesday, final unofficial results posted late in the afternoon showed a reversal of fortune -- with Initiative 301 set to pass narrowly with 50.6 percent of the vote.
Schools are not required to implement the framework; they are merely recommendations for teachers and administrators. Students can opt-out from lessons about sexual health.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted in 2015 to remove federal immigration agents from county jails but also wanted then-Sheriff Jim McDonnell to continue the department’s cooperation with ICE.
Critics say the move will serve only to embarrass children whose parents struggle to afford school meals.
Democratic and Republican secretaries of state agree that more money is needed to improve voting systems, but they disagree on how that federal funding should be spent.
Voting-age population that cast a ballot in the 2018 midterms, which is a 12-point increase from the 2014 midterms.
Text of a bill approved by Arizona lawmakers. Similar legislation has passed in 10 other states.
The number of asylum-seeking families that federal officials are releasing in Tucson has been fluctuating greatly. In the past few weeks, they've overwhelmed the city's existing network of permanent and temporary shelters run by area nonprofits.
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