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President Donald Trump is targeting his home state on Twitter, encouraging the National Rifle Association to leave New York over "oppression of sorts."
After many votes and multiple vetoes, Massachusetts lawmakers have finally lifted the "cap on kids," which denies additional welfare benefits for children born while a family is already receiving welfare.
Mississippi, consistently among those most impoverished states, spent 7.2 percent, or $8.6 million of its welfare funds on these direct cash payments to poor families in 2017.
Gov. Jared Polis’ signed a bill Thursday preventing people accused of many low-level offenses — such as petty, traffic or most municipal charges — from being jailed because they can’t pay their cash bail.
For opponents of the plan, the issue boils down to a clear-cut principle: How can a public hospital that has been a leader in women’s health care and medical services for the gay and transgender community partner with a private system that not only denies such services but also casts them as immoral?
On April 2, the Department of Justice issued a horrifying report on Alabama’s prisons, with graphic accounts of prisoners who were tortured, burned, raped, sodomized, stabbed and murdered in largely unsupervised dorms.
Texas has had the anti-boycott law regarding Israel on its books since 2017.
Kansas' long, bitter fight over abortion entered an intense new phase Friday after the state Supreme Court ruled that women have the right to end a pregnancy.
The Denver initiative is the latest front in a campaign advocates for homeless people have been waging at the state level for years.
Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, when he vetoed a bill in 2017 that would have required presidential candidates to release tax returns. A total of 18 states have introduced similar bills this year.
Annual salary for Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak. He pledged to donate it to K-12 schools all four years of his term and last week gave away his first-quarter salary.
With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Kevin Stitt has ensured that cities and counties in Oklahoma will not be allowed to regulate plastic bags and auxiliary containers.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, an East Lansing Democrat who took office in January, has not proposed resuming state funding for bottled water amid ongoing donations from Nestle.
Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and his wife, Dalia, were arrested Thursday by the Election Fraud Unit of the Texas attorney general's office and accused of running a vote-harvesting scheme.
A lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's rule denying Medicaid coverage for medically necessary transgender surgeries has become a class action that could benefit hundreds of affected residents.
Trying to stop a measles outbreak from spreading, health officials announced Thursday that more than 200 students and staff members at UCLA and Cal State L.A. who have been exposed to measles are being asked to stay home.
Nationally, an estimated 30,000 people are in such association health plans, a type of health insurance seeing a nascent resurgence following an initial drop-off after the ACA took effect in 2014.
A federal judge in Yakima on Thursday blocked new Trump administration rules that could cut off federal funding for health-care providers who refer patients for an abortion.
Biden officially launched his campaign Thursday, after months of speculation.
Gov. Larry Hogan is calling on Baltimore's embattled Mayor Catherine Pugh to resign Thursday, a few hours after federal investigators raided her home and other locations including City Hall.
A Massachusetts judge and court officer were indicted for helping an undocumented immigrant escape a courthouse via a back exit to avoid being arrested by immigration authorities.
Year that the number of middle-income Americans -- making between $25,000 and $74,000 -- is expected to double among people 75 or older. More than half of them likely won't be able to afford housing and health care.
Bridget Anne Kelly, one of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's aides, after she was sentenced this week to 13 months in prison for her role in the "Bridgegate" scandal.
Democrats are pushing legislation to require presidential candidates to release their tax returns. The same rules don't apply for most statewide elections -- but that could change.
The money Sisolak donated went to the Department of Education's Education Gift Fund.
New Mexico’s 40-member Complete Count Commission will have $3.5 million to encourage participation.
Hawaii was the first state to pass a full ban last year. Now California, Oregon, New York and Connecticut are trying to do the same.
Pugh has been facing mounting calls for her to resign over a scandal that involves the sale of her children’s books to entities that do business with the city.
The current configuration of the district, spanning parts of six counties, was drawn in the 2012 legislative session.
The 71-45 vote sets up a potential dispute with the state Senate over whether court fines, fees and restitution should be required before felons can vote.
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