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“CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King corrected Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) after he referred to slaves as “indentured servants.”
The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, which initially stood by the Fairfax following the first accusation, said it would be "best for Lt. Governor Fairfax to step down from his position."
Administrative law judge Robert S. Cohen, in reference to Nancy Oakley who resigned from the Madeira Beach City Commission last week over allegations of licking a city manager in public without his consent.
Investments from 24 public pension funds in the two biggest private prison companies -- CoreCivic and GEO Group. The American Federation of Teachers is calling on them to dump those stocks.
A new study of Baltimore shows that private capital is more often spent in low-poverty places that don't need it as much.
Jails and prisons around the country are replacing in-person visits with video calls, enacting strict mail policies and other regulations that limit inmates' communication with family, friends and lawyers.
The emergency stay was issued on a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts voting with the more liberal wing of the court -- Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
Medicaid enrollment nationally was down about 1.5 percent from January to October last year, the latest enrollment data available from the federal government’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
"Alyssa's Law" requires public schools in New Jersey to install panic buttons in every building to silently alert law enforcement to emergencies or life-threatening situations on campus.
Though the Denver Classroom Teachers Association has agreed to resume talks, it's also moving forward with its strike plans.
Nancy Oakley, a Madeira Beach City Commissioner, handed in her notice Tuesday, a week after the state ethics panel voted unanimously to to find her guilty of sexual harassment.
Ducey called on the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the Department of Health Services and Department of Economic Security to develop training on preventing abuse and neglect in the disability community, according to the statement.
D.C. police and federal agents will work closely together this year in a crackdown on convicted felons illegally carrying guns in the city, a law enforcement strategy prompted by a steep increase in homicides in 2018, officials said Wednesday.
Sgt. Robert A. Stamm, 36, has been suspended pending an investigation into a possible violation of division policy, police said.
Left for dead a week ago after his disastrous handling of his history with blackface, the Democratic Virginia governor is quietly plotting a survival strategy.
The NYPD has a message for Google: Stop helping drunks drive with impunity.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti both told members of Congress how they campaigned to raise their constituents’ taxes for infrastructure, and emerged victorious.
Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson, who called on the city to investigate the “scope of vermin and pest control issues” in City Hall, where employees have found rat droppings and dead rats in the ceiling. Wesson says he has fleas in his office carpet.
Major gun control bills already introduced in more than a dozen states this year. Last year, 27 states passed 67 new laws aimed at restricting firearm access.
A Virginia Military Institute yearbook overseen by future state Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment in 1968 features a host of racist photos and slurs, including blackface.
The government shutdown exposed the financial insecurity and stress of many public servants.
The American Federation of Teachers wants public pensions to dump their holdings in private prison companies. But some argue politics shouldn't guide investment decisions.
This year's online training, required to be watched by all Senate members and the legislative staff in both chambers, lasts 5 minutes, 27 seconds.
Bill Daley has passed the bar to practice law and cleared security checks to work in the White House. But when he tried to pass the state exam to sell insurance in Illinois as a young man, he faced failure, scandal and embarrassment.
Lawmakers voted 58-51 along partisan lines on a concurrent resolution to overturn Executive Order 2019-2, which would rebrand the Department of Environmental Quality as the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE).
The City Council in Nogales, which sits on the border with Nogales, Mexico, wants the federal government to remove all concertina wire installed within the city limits.
Protesters and the family of Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr., demonstrated today outside Attorney General Steve Marshall's office to denounce Marshall's decision to clear the Hoover police officer who fatally shot Bradford at the Riverchase Galleria on Thanksgiving night.
In states where Democrats made big gains in the November elections, lawmakers are quickly moving legislation to raise the buying age for guns and to ban assault-style weapons.
It's all too easy for team members to misunderstand something. Effective leaders know the value of the "pre-brief."
The suit, filed by U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain late Tuesday and made public Wednesday, asks a judge to declare such a facility illegal under federal law.
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