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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.
They fail to maintain critical social compacts, degrading their ability to function over time.
A new survey reveals how little the public knows about their state government. Media coverage is partly to blame.
Tweet from New York Democratic state Sen. Kevin Parker to a Republican Senate staffer, Candice Giove, after she accused Parker of blocking a bike path with his car. Parker has since deleted the tweet and apologized.
Maximum strength of beer that Colorado supermarkets and convenience stores can sell -- until Jan. 1 when that Prohibition-era law is repealed.
Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, a Republican, said the more he’s learning about the Division of Elections, the more he thinks it has done a “pretty good job.”
Sen. Kevin Parker (D-Brooklyn) quickly apologized on Twitter and the exchange with Candice Giove, a spokeswoman for the Senate's Republican conference, was deleted.
A federal judge knocked down a New York state law banning nunchucks that dated to the 1970s, when martial arts star Bruce Lee popularized them in his movies by whipping around the twin sticks linked by a chain.
The University of Texas completed its investigation on Tuesday into whether State Sen. Charles Schwertner sent sexually explicit messages -- including photos of his genitals -- to a student, issuing a report that neither fully incriminates nor clears the Georgetown Republican of wrongdoing.
The pact is being endorsed by Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and D.C., but those participants hope to get more onboard.
U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom dismissed a suit filed by 15 students who claimed they were traumatized by the crisis in February.
The appointments of Democrats Rochelle Thuy Nguyen and Beatrice “Bea” Angela Duran to two Las Vegas-area legislative seats give women 51 percent of the 63 seats in the Legislature.
A federal commission led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made the proposal Tuesday along with a recommendation to "seriously consider partnering with local law enforcement in the training and arming of school personnel."
The attorney general's office had sued the Trump Foundation, claiming the president and his family had used it as a vehicle for his presidential campaign.
Staunchly Republican rural counties voted for progressive policies at the ballot box this year, including minimum wage hikes and Medicaid expansion.
New York is set to become the third state Medicaid program to cover pregnancy and birth coaches for low-income women as a way of lowering the maternal mortality rate.
Observers thought the federal law would stifle the sale of municipal bonds -- and in effect infrastructure projects. But it hasn't been that bad.
Danielle Atkinson, founding director of Mothering Justice, a progressive group that pushed for the November ballot measure to raise Michigan's minimum wage and require paid sick leave. In the lame-duck session, Michigan GOP Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill to water down that measure.
Gun control laws passed by states this year, reversing the recent trend of most gun legislation expanding access to firearms. Since the Parkland shooting in February, student survivors have lobbied for gun control.
Republican Robin Vos, who engineered the lame-duck bills to strip power from the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general, maintains that the maneuver was a nonpartisan attempt to restore balance between the branches.
The Google expansion will ripple through the Long Island economy, tech and economic development, experts said.
A federal judge says Idaho must provide gender confirmation surgery to a transgender inmate who has been living as a woman for years but who has continuously been housed in a men’s prison.
Voter ID has been a years-long goal for Republicans. A 2013 law that included a photo ID requirement to vote was overturned by federal courts in 2016. The GOP moved to add photo ID to the state constitution this year, and the amendment passed with 55 percent of the vote.
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