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Officials increasingly want to move away from underground waste storage systems, which can leak chemicals that fuel toxic algal blooms.
Voters that Texas may purge because they may not be U.S. citizens. This is the first of what will be a monthly process by the Secretary of State's office of using new technology to identify potential non-citizens who have registered to vote. Voter advocacy groups argue that the method the state is using is problematic.
Mayor Jorge Elorza of Providence, R.I. His remarks were made when the border wall dispute had kept the federal government partially closed for more than a month. Now, the White House and Congress have three weeks to work out a border security deal -- or potentially face another shutdown.
A police officer who shot and killed another officer early Thursday was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action, both felonies.
His legislative focus will be on education. He wants to create an elective course that introduces technical education in middle schools.
The property is expected to open to the public in the fall of 2019. It will be known as the Eagle Creek Wildlife Area.
Unlike in other states, the Virginia march is not expected to extend into a days-long walkout or strike.
Gov. Jay Inslee issued the proclamation Friday, deeming the outbreak of the highly contagious viral infection a "public disaster" affecting the life, health, property and public peace of his state's residents.
Texas Secretary of State David Whitley said working with the Department of Public Safety, his office has been able to identify the potential non-citizens among those registered to vote, including 58,000 who have cast ballots before in Texas elections.
In the nearly three months since elections dogged by accusations of voter suppression, state lawmakers across the country have either filed or pre-filed at least 230 bills that would expand access to the ballot for millions of Americans.
Cities across the country in recent weeks have stepped in to fill shortfalls left by shuttered federal agencies.
The White House and Congress now have three weeks to agree on border security -- or the government could shut down again. A bipartisan group of border-state mayors wants more than a wall -- if at all.
Civic hackathons are one way to build new tools that can augment existing efforts to combat the epidemic.
Women are less likely than men to aspire for and occupy top jobs. They're also less optimistic about their chances of moving up at all.
Tara Casanova Powell, an independent researcher for the Governors Highway Safety Association, which released a report showing that the proportion of traffic deaths related to speeding has remained steady at about 26 percent since the beginning of the millennium. The report partially blamed lax enforcement.
Settlement New York City gave the family of Kalief Browder, who killed himself at home after being jailed for three years -- much of it in solitary confinement -- for charges that were eventually dropped of stealing another teen's backpack. His family couldn't afford the $3,000 bail.
Kansas legislators are still allowed to take unrecorded votes on legislation in committee and as the House or Senate debate bills despite an ongoing push for greater openness in state government.
A panel of federal judges has chosen a redistricting map for Virginia’s House of Delegates that could shift some districts toward Democrats and help the party gain control in this year’s election.
The city will pay $3.3. million to the family of a man who killed himself after spending three years -- much of it in solitary confinement -- on Rikers Island, the Daily News has learned.
Katie Brennan, who is chief of staff of the state’s housing finance agency, accused Albert Alvarez of sexually assaulting her in April 2017 when they were both working to get Murphy elected.
Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday announced a broad attack on opioid addiction in New Jersey by adding it to the list of illnesses that qualify residents for medical marijuana.
In another change of course, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers Thursday sought to withdraw Wisconsin from a multi-state lawsuit seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act -- this time by seeking legislative approval.
Fifteen and a half months after one of the most destructive wildfires California has ever seen wreaked historic havoc on Wine Country, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. no longer has to wonder whether the state will blame it for the blaze.
As the partial federal government shutdown stretches into its sixth week, low-income families, seniors and the disabled are facing housing instability and possible evictions.
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will allow a ministry in South Carolina that only works with heterosexual Christian families to participate in a federally funded foster care program.
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San Diego Assemblyman Brian Maienschein, who has served in the Legislature for six years, announced Thursday that he has left the California Republican Party and re-registered as a Democrat in a move that further shrinks GOP influence in Sacramento.
Former Seminole County elections chief Michael Ertel resigned as Florida secretary of state Thursday after photos emerged of him wearing blackface as a Hurricane "Katrina victim" at a Halloween party in 2005.
David Holt, the Republican mayor of Oklahoma City, at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, D.C., this week.
Children in Ohio in social services' custody. The state has launched a public awareness campaign to increase interest in foster care and adoption.
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