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On her third day as governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that New Mexico will drop the oft-maligned PARCC exam after the current school year -- if not sooner.
Buried within the multitude of volumes that encompass Pennsylvania laws is a 176-year-old statute that is rarely used.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review highly partisan election maps drawn by Republicans in North Carolina and Democrats in Maryland, and decide whether such political gerrymandering violates voters' rights to a fair election.
The fourth annual GovTech 100 list will be released this week.
Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, a Democrat, criticizing fellow Democrat Mike Miller, the nation's longest-serving state senate leader.
Millennials who won state legislative seats in November, which marks the largest new class of that generation. Nearly 800 ran.
Over the past few years, statehouses around the country have tried to rein in cities deemed too friendly to undocumented immigrants. But Georgia is the only state that’s created an independent board with one specific mission: Punishing cities that aren’t doing enough to crack down on illegal immigration.
On Jan. 1, California joined the majority of states that have laws requiring drivers with drunken-driving convictions to install breathalyzers in vehicles they own or operate.
The L-pocalypse is officially cancelled.
Two South Carolina deputies who drove two women through Hurricane Florence floodwaters on the way to a mental health facility will face charges in their deaths.
Longtime Ald. Edward Burke, one of Chicago's most powerful figures and a vestige of the city's old Democratic machine, has often been considered too clever and sophisticated to be caught blatantly using his public office to enrich himself.
A Manhattan Federal judge ruled Thursday that Airbnb does not have to turn over data on its hosts to New York City authorities.
Former presidential candidate Martin O'Malley said he won't be running for president again in 2020, but he knows who he wants to see at the top of the Democratic ticket: Beto O'Rourke.
Obamacare was struck down by a federal judge in Texas last month, and now a nationwide coalition of attorneys general, including Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, want to appeal that decision.
About 800,000 federal employees are working without pay or will be furloughed. As the shutdown drags on, the number is expected to rise.
A vision for results-driven government isn't enough. The way business is conducted needs to change.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, after being briefed about the latest negotiations to end the federal government shutdown. Inslee, a Democrat, is running for president in 2020.
Amount now being offered to people to move to Vermont or Tulsa, Okla., and work remotely. Both regions suffer from a worker shortage.
The idea is gaining popularity as a way to get around federal laws that ban banks from handling cannabis businesses' money. But a new report pans the idea.
A Manhattan federal court jury on Wednesday delivered a split verdict in a closely watched NYPD corruption case, acquitting former Deputy Inspector James Grant on bribe-taking charges, but convicting businessman Jeremy Reichberg of two conspiracies and obstruction of justice.
On his second day in office, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell fired the veteran assistant prosecutor Kathi Alizadeh, who was primarily responsible for presenting evidence to the grand jury that declined to indict a Ferguson police officer in the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown.
Before releasing the name of the suspect in the death of Newman Police Officer Ronil Singh, authorities released his legal status.
The Justice Department has decided not to ask the Supreme Court to block the appointment of a special prosecutor to fight former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s effort to erase the guilty verdict a judge returned against him on contempt of court charges last year.
Bernie Sanders’ surprise performance against Hillary Clinton in 2016 was fueled by his dominance in a slate of states that voted by caucus, a format that allowed the Vermont senator to capitalize on his smaller but more fervent base of supporters.
mmigrant parents in Maryland concerned about being deported may now designate someone to care for their children under an expansion of emergency guardianship measures that take effect Tuesday.
The private sector has long blended measurement and workforce management. Too often in government, that's not the way it works.
When Californians voted in 2016 to allow the sale of recreational marijuana, advocates of the move envisioned thousands of pot shops and cannabis farms obtaining state licenses, making the drug easily available to all adults within a short drive.
Discourse remains mostly civil at the local level, a Michigan survey finds, but there are some red flags.
California rang in the new year by becoming the first state to ban pet stores from selling commercially bred dogs, cats and rabbits.
What if a meteor were hurtling toward the Earth, about to kill millions and reshape life on the planet as we know it?
