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U.S. District Judge James Peterson, in a ruling last week against the early voting restrictions passed by Wisconsin Republicans during the lame-duck session.
In the settlement agreement, filed in Suffolk Superior Court on Wednesday, Rite Aid denied violating any state law or regulation. The company currently has 10 stores in Massachusetts after selling many to Walgreens.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed an executive order forbidding state agencies from asking job applicants how much money they earned in previous jobs, a rule that will likely be extended to all employers in the state by year's end.
Legalizing video poker and slots was supposed to generate billions of dollars for the state. A decade later, that hasn’t happened. Now, legislators want to double down on gambling.
A federal appeals court has lifted a lower court order that blocked Texas from booting Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid, potentially imperiling the health care provider’s participation in the federal-state health insurance program.
In downstate Illinois -- and in cities across the country -- government
policies are keeping racial segregation firmly rooted in place.
Newly created restrictions on early voting and other election-related measures that were part of lame-duck legislation signed in December by outgoing Republican Gov. Scott Walker violate a federal court order issued in 2016 that voided similar restrictions, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
The Department of Labor on Thursday denied a request from Washington's mayor to make more federal employees who are working without pay eligible to collect unemployment benefits, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday.
The latest dust-up between California and the Trump administration happened after the Department of Labor sent an email this week warning the state that federal employees who continue to work during the government shutdown cannot apply for benefits, according to the governor's office.
At every point in her hourlong ruling, Associate Judge Domenica Stephenson endorsed the actions of the police on the night McDonald was shot by Officer Jason Van Dyke, calling the 17-year-old an erratic, armed assailant who ignored commands to drop a small knife.
Indianapolis is rethinking its approach, seeking new efficiencies that will better serve those from disadvantaged communities.
From preventing terrorism to spotting restaurant heath violations, a form of artificial intelligence called natural language processing can help connect the dots.
An underfunded division of the agency struggles to collect data state and local governments need. What's needed is a public-private partnership.
Unrest over education funding and policy is brewing in several cities and states across the country.
Historically, attorneys general rarely weigh in on health policy or go up against each other in the courtroom over it. Then came the Affordable Care Act.
At two of the three schools, Texas State University and the University of Houston, the football programs spent more money than they earned last fiscal year, requiring other university funds to cover the difference.
In announcing in November that it would not list roughly 200 homes in Israeli settlements, the popular home-sharing platform explained that it was uncomfortable doing business in an occupied territory subject to a historical dispute between Palestinians and Israelis.
A 2018 survey by NASCIO and consulting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP found that only 45 percent of states require that all executive branch employees complete cyber training.
Cities' efforts to get tough on crime can make it harder for low-income residents to find good jobs and housing.
In his 11-page resignation letter, John Engler says he will step down effective Wednesday, Jan. 23.
Decades of local zoning regulations and land-use policies have kept racial segregation firmly rooted in place.
After a more than 15-year long fight, transgender New Yorkers will soon be covered by the state's anti-discrimination laws.
"Yes" vote that would be needed to approve future ballot measures under bills being considered in Florida and Missouri. Ohio is similarly considering raising the bar to 60 percent.
Most of the money will be aimed at increasing housing options for low- and middle-income workers -- workers who "teach our kids in schools, and put out the fires in our houses and keep us alive in the hospital," said Microsoft President Brad Smith.
SNAP flier in North Carolina, where more than 840,000 people receive food stamps and will get their February benefits early this month.
Over the last week or so, Trump has considered using disaster recovery funds to build a border wall, given that he has not been able to get Congress to appropriate money for one.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an effort by three major U.S. cities to require the Pentagon to be more vigilant about reporting service members who were disqualified from owning weapons to a national background check system.
The black-white divide is still a major problem. Government policies are partially to blame.
Segregated schools aren’t just the products of segregated neighborhoods. In many cases, predominantly white schools are driving the racial divide.
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