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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.
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."
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