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Democrats say Republicans spoiled chances for bipartisanship with a lame-duck session that peeled power away from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul even before they were seated.
Conversion therapy tries to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. It can be done through talk or through a practice where a therapist causes pain when someone has a sexual reaction to someone of the same sex.
The trend has a big impact on states, whose budgets often already are overstretched responding to the drug crisis and other needs.
Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency for parts of New York City on Tuesday in the midst of an expanding measles outbreak.
Doctors in California have broad authority to grant medical exemptions to vaccination, and to decide the grounds for doing so.
The agreement, first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, marks the first time the Trump administration has asked a school to dial back its use of affirmative action and could presage more such efforts.
The new executive order represents a shot from the White House in the ongoing battle between beltway Republicans and Democratic governors opposed to fossil fuel developments in their states.
Kimberly Mitchell, executive director of Everglades Trust, reacting to news that GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed a biologist as the state's first chief science officer. His predecessor was criticized for not addressing climate change and for banning the term from state government.
Reported measles cases this year, which is the highest in the past five years. The once-eradicated disease spread to four more states last week.
From Kansas City, Mo., to Tampa, Fla., a record number of large cities could elect an openly gay woman as mayor this year.
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“I think about it every minute of every day. Now, thinking about it and doing it are two different things,” Manchin said. “I’ll make a decision this fall sometime. I don’t think there’s any hurry at all.”
Robert Foster, a state representative from Hernando, is seeking the GOP nomination against former state Supreme Court Justice Bill Waller Jr. and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves.
More than 1.4 million people across the Garden State are getting their drinking water from systems that are dealing with high levels of lead.
The Texas Education Agency said Friday that it is discussing solutions with the federal government and the Legislature.
Law enforcement groups are worried about the shifting political climate on this issue.
A bill authorizing the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance to share tax return information with Congressional committees was introduced Monday by state Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan).
Now, measles has been found in more than a third of U.S. states — up and down both coasts, and across the plains, the Midwest and the South — with most of the illnesses occurring in children.
Most of them are being killed off by automation, but they are still common in certain parts of the country. See where.
Of death among Native American women and girls is murder. In some counties, their murder rate is more than 10 times the national average.
Carmel, Ind., Mayor Jim Brainard, in testimony last week before a U.S. House subcommittee on environment and climate change.
Michael E. Busch, the longest-serving House of Delegates speaker in Maryland history and a champion of the state's schools and the Chesapeake Bay, died Sunday.
The 350-mile, $2.5bn Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline through southern Pennsylvania has sparked growing outrage.
Rather than lobby the U.S. Congress, partisan organizations, business interests, and religious groups with national agendas plant these bills in statehouses across the country.
The controversial ban went into effect late last month in an effort to contain an outbreak of measles that began in October. Nearly 170 cases have been confirmed in the county.
The governor chose the smallest country in Central America as the backdrop for his debut on the world's stage to observe its socio-economic conditions, which send tens of thousands of Salvadorans fleeing for the U.S. each year.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill Sunday that will raise the legal age for purchasing cigarettes, e-cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 statewide.
During the 2010 census, more than 30% of Midwood households failed to respond to mailings, requiring costly and fallible follow-up interviews.
“This wall is unnecessary, and an abuse of power that will take away resources that could be used to help Americans across our nation,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Twitter.
The state has made a number of key reforms to streamline its recruiting and hiring. One big change? Using plain English.
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