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Cities and local governments in several states said they will continue to use a Canadian company to offer employees prescription drugs at a highly reduced price, even though federal officials raised safety concerns about the practice last week.
In a ruling released Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg said that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had failed to justify his decision to include a citizenship question in the upcoming census.
We all want safe neighborhoods, but the way we treat many people arrested for low-level offenses does more harm than good.
Cities large and small are stepping up their efforts to combat climate change and cope with its impact. There's much that they can do.
This form of pay inequity, referred to as salary inversion, is making it difficult to fill supervisor positions in the public sector.
Nevada Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson, a Democrat, who resigned and pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations.
Economic development deals in which Texas changed once-finalized contracts for companies receiving tax breaks -- usually to lower the number of jobs they were required to create. These type of renegotiations are rarely made public.
The Republican governor told reporters on Tuesday that the measure is supported by a vast majority of Kentuckians. The measure won final approval from state lawmakers last week. Its supporters include the National Rifle Association.
Murphy, a Democrat elected in 2017 to succeed Republican Chris Christie, has argued that a so-called “millionaire’s tax” would help lift the middle class by providing funding for priorities like education.
"In this most difficult of circumstances, I have been treated respectfully by the prosecutors and investigators," he said. "And I have no one to blame for this but myself in this situation."
State funding for public K-12 schools remains lower than before the recession in a number of states, including five where teachers have gone on strike in the last year.
More than six years of legal battles between Lakewood's Masterpiece Cakeshop and the state will end after baker Jack Phillips agreed to drop his lawsuit alleging the Colorado Civil Rights Commission was harassing him for refusing to make LGBTQ-themed cakes.
Michael Bloomberg is confident he'd beat President Trump in 2020 -- but he's not going to try.
The subpoena was served late Monday on the company, Aon, one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the world, as part of an inquiry by the New York State Department of Financial Services.
Some states can revoke your job license if you fall behind. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio introduced legislation that would outlaw that practice.
The ratio of black men to black women. By comparison, there are 97 white men for every 100 white women. The stark difference in gender imbalances can largely be blamed on the mass incarceration of black men.
Tulsa Community College professor Michael Mason, who says the George Kaiser Family Foundation contributes as much as or more than the state government to city services in Tulsa, Okla.
New research shows that it's not rare for companies to lower their job promises after accepting tax incentives from the government.
George Kaiser and other wealthy residents help fill holes in the state’s budget, but at a cost, experts say.
An extensive analysis of monitoring data found unsafe levels of toxic pollutants were present in groundwater at 91 percent of the nation's 242 coal-fired power plants that filed reports.
Minnesota's electricity providers would have to generate all their energy from clean sources, like solar and wind, by 2050 or sooner, under a proposal Gov. Tim Walz unveiled Monday.
Nearly two weeks after their first meeting, Virginia would be consumed by a series of race-related scandals embroiling the governor, first lady, and attorney general.
Thirty-six rural nursing homes across the country have been forced to close in the last decade because they failed to meet health and safety standards.
As he took office, DeSantis said he planned to be the governor for all Floridians, including those who didn't vote for him.
The attorneys general of Oregon and New York led the group of states, as well as the District of Columbia, in announcing their lawsuit Monday.
Years before the Trump administration's family planning changes, the state of Texas cut funding from reproductive health clinics. Low-income women felt the impact the most.
Decline in homicides in Chicago, comparing this year's January and February to last year's. There was also a 7 percent decline in shootings during the same time period.
The chair of Florida's Democratic Party, Terrie Rizzo, on comments made by state GOP House Speaker Jose Oliva in which he referred to pregnant women as "host bodies" when talking about abortion.
Jose Oliva, a Republican politician from Miami Lakes, trotted out the phrase five times during an interview late last week while discussing abortion law.
Chicago has been plagued with violent crime, and it has achieved unwanted attention for lawlessness, such as weekend crime sprees. But police said they have been making strides to address the problem.
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