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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.
The policies can go a long way toward improving tenants' health, but they needn't result in evictions.
The president touted a bipartisan bill he signed to reduce sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. But he's been quiet about his support for a new juvenile justice law that could impact more people.
One of the world's sunniest spots just took a stand on two sunscreen chemicals that scientists have said are hurting the coral reef ecosystem in the Florida Keys.
With control of the legislature on the line in November, the party could pay a price for the blackface revelations by Virginia's governor and attorney general, and the sexual assault allegations against the lieutenant governor.
California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra warned in a national televised address Tuesday that he is prepared to take President Trump to court if he declares a national emergency to fund a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border while cutting federal funds to fire-damaged communities in this state.
Virginia's Attorney General, Mark Herring, admitted that he dressed in blackface in 1980 during college, he said Wednesday.
His teacher pay plan would cost about $70 million annually and would be in addition to the average annual pay boost of $6,100 that teachers received last year before a statewide walkout over demands for more education spending .
Gov. Whitmer announced the restructuring of the Department of Environmental Quality as the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy.
A sea change in state and federal laws governing criminal background checks for child care workers, intended to improve safety in day care, could force out thousands who have a prior offense, even if they’ve worked without problems for years.
The bill now goes to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who supports the ban.
Austin’s first scooter-related death occurred over the weekend. Police identified the scooter rider as Mark Sands, a 21-year-old UT student from Ireland, who died Saturday, just one day after suffering critical injuries when the electric scooter he was riding collided with a car.
Hawaii state Rep. Richard Creagan, a Democrat, doctor and former smoker, who introduced a bill to incrementally raise the smoking age to 30 in 2020, 40 in 2021, 50 in 2022, 60 in 2023 and 100 in 2024.
A spokeswoman for the governor said 118 Guard troops are currently deployed to the border, including 25 from out of state.
Corruption ranking for Chicago and Los Angeles, based on the number of federal corruption convictions from 1976 to 2016. Local politicians are currently under investigation for corruption in both cities.
Philadelphia now holds about 500 juveniles each day in detention centers spread across the state and beyond, a number that's dropped from about 700 two years ago.
The investigations raise questions not just about who else might be caught up in them, but also about whether there can be any lasting cure for the chronic corruption problems.
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