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It marks the second recent change to execution-day procedures in the nation’s busiest death chamber. Earlier this month, Texas also stopped letting clergy inside after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the execution of a man who wanted his Buddhist spiritual adviser with him.
Baltimore County's Del. Adrienne A. Jones was unanimously elected the next speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates on Wednesday, making history as the first woman and African American to hold the position.
Thousands of teachers in the Carolinas left their classrooms Wednesday and headed to their state capitols to pressure lawmakers to invest more in education, joining the swell of teacher activism that has swept the country since last year.
Tennessee's strategy for reforming its workforce practices has produced a culture of continuous improvement.
Requiring two-person crews raises railroads' costs unnecessarily and discourages investment in technologies that could make shipping safer.
It takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020, and will ban businesses including convenience stores, restaurants and grocery stores from selling or distributing Styrofoam products.
How a lawyer with deep connections to Democratic politicians in New Jersey helped to dole out hundreds of millions of dollars in state tax credits.
Fifteen people appointed by former Gov. Scott Walker are back in their state positions following a decision Tuesday by the state Supreme Court in a lawsuit challenging action taken by Republican lawmakers to limit the power of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Building on the federal Child Tax Credit would yield dramatic results.
Bullock, who will finish his second term as governor in 2020 and be ineligible for a third term, reportedly plans to enter the crowded field the week of May 13, sources familiar with his plans told the news outlet.
Mueller’s description of Russian interference designed to help the Trump campaign was a reminder of how far many state and local officials have come in securing election infrastructure, but also of how stark the threat remains to the nation’s 8,000 election offices.
North and South Carolina teachers rallied this week. Educators in Sacramento, Calif., and Oregon could strike later this month.
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The debate is likely dead until next year.
The Sacramento City Teachers Association, embroiled in a labor dispute with the Sacramento City Unified School District, announced Tuesday that it will hold its second strike on May 22.
A bill making it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion passed in the Alabama House of Representatives Tuesday 74 to 3.
The morning after Mohamed Noor became Minnesota's first law enforcement officer to be convicted of murder while on duty, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey acknowledged that trust in his police force needs to be shored up.
The front lines in a bitter debate between Israel’s defenders and critics now lie in an unexpected place: state capitals across America.
Don Gathers, former chair of Charlottesville, Va.'s Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces, after a judge ruled that the city needs the state's permission to remove its Confederate monuments. In 2017, the monuments were a source of conflict at a white supremacist rally that left one counterprotester dead.
Time that a Mississippi prison has been on lockdown due to a shortage of corrections officers. Most of the inmates are locked in their cells for 23 hours a day and not allowed visitors.
States are receiving mixed messages from the federal government and have unanswered questions about their plans to lower drug prices.
Roughly 1,800 of the 3,000 inmates at the South Mississippi prison in Leaksville are locked in their cells 23 hours a day and haven't been allowed visitors in at least three months.
The unanimous ruling partially overturns an April 2018 Appeals Court decision that highlighted the challenges of mediating battles between parents who differ on how to handle kids exploring their gender identities.
He declined to sign a bill establishing redistricting criteria for the process and rejected a proposal that would allow for redistricting outside of the census process.
De Blasio announced the executive order, which includes all future advertising contracts or contract renewals, citing a study that exposure to alcohol advertisements can increase the likelihood of alcohol consumption.
UNCC Police Chief Jeff Baker confirmed that a suspect, who had been armed with a pistol, was taken into custody, but would not identify the alleged shooter
A Virginia judge has ruled that statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson in Charlottesville are war monuments that the city cannot remove without permission from the state.
Two states are seeking to intervene on the side of the federal government after four conservation groups asked a judge to immediately halt drilling, mining and other activities to protect habitat for a ground-dwelling bird in seven Western states.
A handful of states are requiring doctors to give or at least offer a prescription for the overdose rescue drug to patients taking high doses of opioid painkillers.
Roads and bridges get most of the attention, but America’s public housing is crumbling too, advocates told Congress on Tuesday.
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