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Life expectancy that makes a person eligible for physician-assisted suicide in New Jersey, the latest state to legalize "aid in dying." Seven other states have similar laws.
President Trump, on an idea that he says is being given "strong consideration" because Democrats do not agree with his immigration policies.
The tornado hit Monroe County on Saturday night, said CNN meteorologist Gene Norman. It was one of about six tornadoes to hit the state this weekend. One person in Monroe was killed and 10 people were injured.
Maine’s Constitution says the governor has the sole power to grant reprieves, pardons and commutations, so former Gov. Paul LePage did not break the law, but he broke with tradition.
Investigators at the S.C. Department of Corrections will send their findings to the state Attorney General's Office and the local solicitor in the next week, prisons Director Bryan Stirling said in an interview with The State Wednesday.
If he emerges from the increasingly crowded field of Democratic candidates, the former Rhodes scholar and veteran of the war in Afghanistan would become the first openly gay nominee from a major party.
Gov. Jared Polis signed House Bill 1177 on Friday at the state Capitol, after nearly two months of contentious legislative hearings marked by a familiar partisan divide over the issue of gun control.
Gov. Phil Murphy signed the Medical Aid in Dying bill Friday, making New Jersey the eighth state to allow terminally ill patients to request prescriptions from their doctors for medication to end their lives.
In 11 states, higher-education appropriations have not recovered at all from the worst years of the Great Recession, according to a report by the association of State Higher Education Executive Officers.
Some say the rush to pass these bills is about lawmakers competing to get their particular state's law before the Supreme Court. The state that helps overturn Roe v. Wade would go down in history.
In an attempt to retaliate against Democrats, President Trump and White House officials reportedly plotted to release detained immigrants into sanctuary cities.
Gov. Mike DeWine signed the "Heartbeat Bill" on Thursday, after eight years of the controversial measure falling short of becoming law. The action was met with applause and shouts of "thank you, governor!" by the crowd of about 30 proponents invited inside the governor's ceremonial Statehouse office.
Buddy, a 34-year-old man who sleeps at the Las Vegas Courtyard, which -- unlike most homeless shelters -- allows people to stay with their partner, to store their belongings, to have pets and to show up drunk or high.
Increase in voter registrations in Georgia after the state enacted automatic voter registration (AVR). More than a dozen states either have or are in the process of implementing AVR.
Last week, corrections officials faced a backlash after banning nonprofit groups from mailing used books to prisoners. This week, their math is raising eyebrows.
The city's law department filed a civil complaint on Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County "that pursues the full measure of damages allowed under the false statements ordinance," a spokesman said in a statement to The Times.
Kentucky officials announced Wednesday their plan to take advantage of what's called "rapid DNA" technology in which machines analyze a forensic sample and can produce a DNA profile within about two hours.
Former Douglas County prosecutor David Emadi, who started his new job Monday, also said his office will soon decide whether to prosecute the campaigns of Atlanta mayoral candidates.
The bill, introduced by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, however, would exempt safety, sensitive security jobs and those tied to a federal or state contract or grant from the policy.
High-paying blue-collar jobs lifted incomes in West Virginia, New York and Illinois last year, even though the states lost residents.
The United States is almost alone among industrial countries and other democracies in putting most of the onus of registering to vote on individual voters.
Parents of students killed and injured in the 2018 mass murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have filed more than 20 lawsuits, alleging negligence by the Broward Sheriff's Office, the Broward County School Board and Henderson Behavorial Health and "willful and wanton negligence" against former BSO school resource officer Scot Peterson and campus monitor Andrew Medina.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little approved legislation Tuesday adding work restrictions and other conditions to the voter-approved Medicaid expansion initiative.
Despite scores of protesters both outside and inside the legislative chambers Wednesday, Ohio lawmakers approved what both sides are labeling the strictest abortion law in the nation.
Building anything anywhere is a short-sighted approach to fixing the affordability crisis.
As the idea of "free college" gains popularity, Virginia and Iowa are instead focused on career and technical education.
For sustainability to be successful, it must also be affordable. Spokane, Wash.'s mayor thinks it can be.
The way governments are measuring results is becoming kinder -- and more effective.
How housing shortages, NIMBYism and traffic are reshaping America.
Its problems didn't start with Trump, but he ironically may be helping to turn some of them around.
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