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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.
Public health officials describe the proposed reallocation of state dollars as a well-meaning initiative that nonetheless would have “dire consequences” to core public health services.
Nationally, 53% of the citizen voting-age population voted in 2018, a 12-point bump from the previous midterms, according to new U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
They're fed up with overcrowded classrooms and a lack of support staff, including school nurses and mental health counselors.
Tennessee House Democrats have also demanded the resignation or removal of Republican House Speaker Glen Casada.
Nearly four years after Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas jail cell, a newly uncovered cellphone video offers a new perspective into the controversial arrest and has led her family to call for a new investigation.
Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson, a champion for education and homelessness initiatives, died Saturday morning in Carson City. The North Las Vegas lawmaker took ill in the capital midweek. He was 51.
Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock confirmed late Tuesday that eight students had been shot during the bloody attack and one of them had died.
The city is the latest government to be targeted by hackers and forced to decide whether to pay to restore vital public services.
A growing body of evidence shows that "alternative investments" may be lowering returns and costing state and local governments more.
What the U.S. spends, per person, on prescription drugs. Canada, by comparison, spends only $669. To lower costs, some states, cities and counties are importing drugs from Canada.
Tweet from Pennsylvania Democratic state Rep. Brian Sims, in response to criticism after he uploaded a video of him berating an anti-abortion protester outside a Planned Parenthood. "Shame on you," he told the protester. "What you're doing here is disgusting. This is wrong. You have no business being out here."
All but one of America's presidents between 1976 and 2004 were governors. Since then, state leaders have barely stood a chance at the Oval Office.
Gov. Brian Kemp signed one of the strictest abortion laws in the country Tuesday, setting Georgia up for what is likely to be a lengthy _ and costly _ court battle.
The Trump administration is refusing to release records behind a policy change that hides the donors to nonprofits, New York Attorney General Letitia James charged Monday in a federal lawsuit.
The the economic losses laid out in the study would represent the loss of one-third of the country’s total trade trade with Mexico over a three-month period.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra sent a letter to all 12 dioceses on Thursday requesting that church officials retain documents relevant to allegations of clergy sex abuse and mandatory reporting.
Initiative 300, a first-of-its-kind ballot measure that even divided advocates for the homeless, failed on Tuesday by an overwhelming margin.
Gov. Steve Bullock signed a school safety bill Thursday that would let schools offer a new tax specifically for school safety costs, and to use existing funding streams for safety upgrades.
Nashville teachers are sick of their low pay, so hundreds have called out sick.
Judge Myron Thompson's 210-page opinion summarizes the circumstances of 15 men who took their own lives in ADOC prisons over 15 months from late 2017 to this year.
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation, published Monday, found that Hoschton Mayor Theresa Kenerly withheld the job candidate from consideration for city administrator because he was black.
It would still be illegal to possess the mushrooms even if the initiative passes, the measure would not apply to Colorado as a whole, and sales would still be considered a felony.
ICE framed the new program as a countermeasure to “sanctuary cities” across the United States that acting director Matthew Albence said “undermine public safety” by adopting policies of non-cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Julian Bear Runner, president of the Oglala Sioux tribe, in a letter to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. The Republican signed bills that allegedly target Keystone XL pipeline protesters.
States that collected more income tax revenue last year than they did before the 2008 recession, even when inflation is taken into account. Federal tax reform and the economy both offered a boost.
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