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Less than half of the states where the drug treatment is legal protect patients from employment discrimination. Courts have generally sided with employers -- until recently.
The lawsuit claims the administration’s rule will restrict access to contraception, abortion, HIV treatment and a host of other medical services.
The new safety changes were sought by the industry but fiercely challenged by environmentalists.
The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Democratic lawmakers begged him Friday to veto the bill.
Washington state led the nation in economic output growth for a third year in a row between 2017 and 2018, growing its state gross domestic product by almost 6%.
Tribal banishment is a permanent ban from the reservation, and violations are punishable by law with fines or even jail time.
A steady drumbeat of staff departures at the National Governors Association (NGA) raised red flags among the group’s top leaders, setting off a two-month standoff that ended recently with the ouster of the group’s executive director.
The upper Mississippi was inundated with massive amounts of rain earlier this week, exacerbating the already high river level.
After the veto signing, Sununu said he believes in the death penalty as a matter of sound public policy and that he would have vetoed a repeal whether or not the state had an inmate on death row.
Minnesota has long allowed people who rape their partner to escape penalties if they meet certain conditions, a law Gov. Tim Walz called "antiquated and shameful" before repealing it Thursday.
A federal three-judge panel has struck down Ohio's congressional district map as a partisan gerrymander, giving Democrats hope of making inroads in a state where they failed to pick off any seats last fall.
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Long Beach is partnering with trusted community-based organizations to help entrepreneurs start up, stay up, and scale up.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, after signing a bill to allow autonomous robots to deliver packages. One of the robots brought the bill to Inslee, a 2020 candidate for president. You may see the robots on sidewalks in seven other states.
Settlement that drug distributor McKesson Corp. has agreed to pay West Virginia for its role in the opioid epidemic. A month earlier, Purdue Pharma settled a similar lawsuit with Oklahoma for $270 million.
The Obamacare opponents hope to persuade the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to uphold U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor's ruling late last year striking down the law.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is a presidential phone-buddy and White House regular who’s become one of President Donald Trump’s loudest surrogates.
The city and a private contractor, Securus Technologies, had charged inmates 50 cents to make a call, plus 5 cents for each minute on the phone, amounting to $8 million a year -- $5 million of which went to the city.
The lawsuit against McKesson alleged that the company failed to appropriately monitor the distribution of painkillers to pharmacies around the state, exacerbating the drug epidemic in some of West Virginia's most vulnerable regions.
The bill is believed to be the first time in recent decades that Florida has adopted legislation cracking down on illegal immigrants.
The $1.8-billion cost increase covers bridges, viaducts, trenches and roadbed from Madera to Wasco, a distance of 119 miles.
Gov. Sisolak's cannabis advisory panel is in the process of determining rules to regulate the new industry, including the formation of a Cannabis Control Board.
Gov. Bullock signed the bill Tuesday creating a reinsurance program to help reimburse insurers for high-cost claims so those costs aren't included in determining individual marketplace premiums for the following year.
On Tuesday, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law that establishes new regulations for “personal delivery devices” like the delivery robot Amazon unveiled earlier this year.
From Boston to Miami, coastal cities are changing where and how developers can build in order to protect homes and property from future flooding.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh resigned Thursday, apologizing for the harm she has caused to the city’s image and the mayor’s office amid a growing scandal over her sales of a self-published book series.
Measure by which a Medicaid expansion vote failed in the Kansas Senate this week. Kansas is one of the 14 states that has not made more low-income people eligible for the government's low-cost health care.
Former Nevada Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison, who worked to pass legislation that bans government contractors from boycotting Israel. A growing number of states have passed similar laws, which are now being challenged in court.
There's a growing movement to, but some say it's a misguided policy.
On Monday, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed the nation's first "public option" health insurance bill. Other states aren't far behind.
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