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Turnout has already exceeded the 2014 numbers -- especially among some Democratic-leaning demographics. But there are reasons for Republican optimism, too.
About 1 in every 25 Washington K-12 public school students, or about one child in every classroom, will experience homelessness this year, according to a report released in May by the state's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. In Seattle, that rate jumps to 1 in 13 students.
A Las Vegas jury on Thursday unanimously decided in favor of mentally ill people who were cast out of a Nevada psychiatric hospital and bused across the country without proper care or planning.
Louisiana’s Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a ruling allowing the state to deny the right to vote to felons on probation or parole.
U.S. District Chief Judge Daniel Hovland denied a temporary restraining order filed by the Spirit Lake Sioux and six individuals against Secretary of State Al Jaeger, according to a news release issued Thursday.
As climate change forces cities to grapple with rising sea levels and increasingly powerful storms, coastal cities must prepare for a heightened likelihood of flooding, whether tidal flooding from rising sea levels or a hurricane that could dump inches of rain in a short period of time.
Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday signed a bill — unofficially dubbed “Cory’s Law” — that would clarify that a U.S. senator or member of the U.S. House from New Jersey can appear on the primary and general election ballots for those offices as well as for the presidency.
The race to be the next governor of Georgia has heated up since the primaries earlier this year, and some of the country's biggest stars made their way down south to campaign.
President Donald Trump's administration has approved Gov. Scott Walker's controversial plan to require childless adults on Medicaid to work or lose coverage, but the federal government rejected Walker's proposal to require drug screening and testing.
Democrats flipped six chambers, but Republicans still control nearly twice as many.
States that have added some version of the "right to live free from governmental intrusion" in their constitutions. New Hampshire could be the next, depending on the outcome of a ballot measure next week.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, while in New Hampshire campaigning for down-ballot Democrats.
One-third of states will be "super-aged" by 2026, weighing down economies and finances for years to come.
The Rhode Island Department of Education said the 1st Circuit Court’s ruling calls for “Free and Appropriate Public Education” to be provided to people with disabilities until age 22. This conflicts with current state law, which states that such services are provided to age 21.
The revelation that Newark is facing a potentially widening public health crisis over tap water has angered many residents and raised questions about whether the city’s negligence has placed young children at risk.
Technology can help people who don't have lawyers and make courts more efficient.
There has been obvious friction between the two GOP candidates, and earlier in the campaign, lieutenant governor candidate Marissa Kerns said publicly that gubernatorial candidate Andria Tupola should apologize for her voting record, which Kerns said is too liberal.
Gov. John Hickenlooper has long drawn speculation as a potential contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
With Gov. Roy Cooper's signing of the executive order, North Carolina joins states like Colorado, California and others that have set statewide targets for reducing emissions of gases that are associated with global warming and climate change.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered boards of election in Ohio to count provisional election ballots for the 2018 midterm elections that are cast by certain people previously purged from the state's voter rolls.
The rate of premature birth across the United States rose for the third year in a row, according to the annual premature birth report card from March of Dimes, a nonprofit organization that works to improve maternal and infant health.
Medi-Cal provides health coverage to 13.1 million Californians, approximately one-third of the state’s population. To qualify, a single adult must make less than $16,754 annually.
Preschoolers are eight times, on average, more likely to get kicked out. States are starting to notice and intervene.
Eight states have competitive elections next week whose outcomes could influence a number of policies. But these down-ballot races are largely overshadowed.
The Tennessee city has worked to become more responsive to the needs of local minority businesses—and to help those firms grow.
The number of people who could receive health coverage if Idaho voters approve Proposition 2 on Tuesday. The ballot initiative was recently endorsed by the state's Republican governor, Butch Otter.
With urban rents rising sharply, there's a push to reintroduce it. But it won't fix the affordable-housing shortage.
Faced with the prospect of up to a third of jobs being eliminated by automation in the next decade, governments are taking another look at Universal Basic Income.
Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who began a new push to toughen the state's gun control laws folliowng the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left 11 dead.
While Trump is seen as an asset to some mainland campaigns -- he has been stumping for his fellow Republicans in places such as Houston and Mesa, Ariz. -- political observers say it is a different story in Hawaii.
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