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Changing the way Americans open their car doors can help prevent cyclist injuries and fatalities.
Rudy Salo, a public finance attorney, in reference to the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, which Congress passed in late 2017.
Photos and musings from photographer David Kidd.
A rural Alabama police force believes two gun deaths in its small community are the result of its residents' rejection of God.
Twenty-five days before leaving office, Gov. John Kasich suddenly barred discrimination in state employment based on gender identity -- a change of heart from when he took office nearly eight years ago.
On the eve of the announcement, de Blasio's administration issued a 71-page report by the Mayor's Task Force on Cannabis Legalization, making the case for marijuana legalization and the possibility for home delivery, but calling for smoking pot in public to remain illegal.
Tech giants Facebook and Google will pay Washington state more than $450,000 to settle twin lawsuits filed by Attorney General Bob Ferguson accusing the companies of failure to abide by state laws on political advertising transparency.
Michigan Republicans voted Thursday to give themselves a power to intervene in court cases that now is reserved for the state attorney general, the latest measure pushed through a lame-duck session that critics said would weaken the power of Democrats or voters.
North Carolina voters will be asked to show photo identification when they go to the polls next year, barring intervention by a court.
The South Carolina Republican Party could decide next summer to pass on holding the party's 2020 primary election -- a move that is not unprecedented -- to help President Donald Trump's re-election bid.
Despite its reputation for sterling progressivism, New York has some of the most restrictive election laws in the nation.
This year will see the largest class yet of millennials entering legislatures. How will they shape politics and policies?
Photos and musings from photographer David Kidd.
Photos and musings from photographer David Kidd.
Despite going into special session, lawmakers still don't have a solution for the least-funded pension system in the nation.
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the architect of the bills to reduce the incoming Democratic governor's power. Similar legislation was introduced by Republicans in Michigan and North Carolina after Democrats were elected governor.
While the Trump administration mulls over the domestic "gag rule" and state requests to defund Planned Parenthood, abortion bills are making their way through legislatures and courts.
Catholic clergy in Illinois who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing a child but have not been publicly identified by the church. The state's attorney general found a total of 690 accused.
The release of the rule comes on the same day President Donald Trump is expected to sign the farm bill into law — and the timing is no accident.
Edgewood’s chronic problems signify Texas’ long record of neglecting schools that educate mostly students of color — racial integration and school funding increases have generally come when the courts forced the state’s hand.
In October, London Breed and other family members sent letters to the governor, asking him to consider an early release date for her older brother, Napoleon Brown, who has served nearly two decades of a 44-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter and armed robbery.
A state panel created in response to drinking-water crises in the City of Newburgh and other places in New York has recommended the state set strict contamination limits for three chemicals that include the type that polluted Newburgh's primary water source.
The party switching comes after a nationwide surge of Democratic voters in suburban areas. The surge helped defeat Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder, and some state lawmakers are now aligning themselves with this new political reality.
Lawyers for Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, are suing to try to stop the state from taking action against him over the new discrimination allegation.
The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Facebook for allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, to gain access to the names, “likes,” and other personal data about tens of millions of the social site’s users without their permission.
Montana was one of four red states with Medicaid expansion on the ballot, and the only one where it failed. And the reason why, many close observers both inside and outside of the state agree, almost certainly came down to a tactical decision to link expansion to an increase in the state’s tobacco tax.
A scathing report from Attorney General Lisa Madigan finds the number of Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse against children in Illinois is much higher than previously acknowledged.
Most of them led to a resignation or election loss.
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