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Beth Walker, 53, will be the court's third chief justice in one year. She will take the post Jan. 1, 2019, April Harless, deputy public information officer for the Supreme Court, said in a news release Monday.
The grants will go to nine different nonprofit organizations “operating at faith-affiliated institutions,” according to a press release from the mayor’s office and the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency. Most of the organizations are Jewish.
Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday endorsed new restrictions on gun and ammunition sales in New Jersey and a renewed push for "smart guns" that can be fired only by their registered owners.
Idaho’s Republican Gov. Butch Otter on Tuesday endorsed a ballot initiative that would expand Medicaid eligibility to thousands of people.
Four more states deep in Trump country — Idaho, Utah, Nebraska and Montana — have Medicaid expansion questions on their ballots; in Montana’s case, whether to continue their legislature-approved expansion.
The Department of Homeland Security has already provided or is scheduled to provide the service, which is free for states that request it, to only 21 states, a department spokesman told ABC News, concerning election experts who fear some states may not be aware of potential vulnerabilities.
Voters who are notified of a problem can request a new ballot or vote in person, but the law does not provide time after the election to resolve the problems. That potentially affects voters who drop off their ballots on or near Election Day.
Once a plan to execute on deploying public safety is completed, don’t stop there. Move the conversation to tracking and reporting.
In a year with more redistricting measures than usual, voters in several states reduced politicians' role in the process of drawing voting districts.
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, during a debate with Republican Ron DeSantis. Gillum, who would be the state's first black governor, pointed out that DeSantis has facilitated a Facebook group that hosted anti-Semitic posts and spoken at a conference alongside white supremacists.
States that have never had a woman as governor. Arizona has had the most of any state -- four.
Several populous states, including New York, Florida and Illinois, have never elected a woman as governor.
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Memphis Police Department violated a consent decree between the City of Memphis and the ACLU of Tennessee by spying on political protesters.
The announcement was a stark acknowledgment of the so-called spoiler discussion that has dominated the last three races for governor.
Several Democratic voters have complained the voting system indicated they were about to cast a vote for Cruz, a Republican, instead of Democrat O'Rourke as they prepared to send it.
A trio of companies — ES&S of Omaha, Nebraska; Dominion Voting Systems of Denver and Hart InterCivic of Austin, Texas — sell and service more than 90 percent of the machinery on which votes are cast and results tabulated.
The governor's office and the Rauner-led Illinois Environmental Protection Agency kept the politically explosive information from the public for eight months.
Andrew Gillum, who is black, has not been convicted of any crime, though the FBI is investigating suspected corruption in his administration.
Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia native, wrote a letter to GOP gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp asking him to step down as secretary of state and hand off oversight of the state's elections to someone else since he is currently running for governor of the state.
States need to do more to help residents keep the lights on and stay connected to vital telecommunications networks.
The global decline of trust in government produces an array of complex questions and challenges for contemporary democracies.
The state hasn't elected a Democratic governor since 1994, but the progressive nominee is consistently -- and narrowly -- ahead in the polls against Republican Ron DeSantis.
Decline in black men's median wage, when adjusted for inflation, from 2016 to the first half of 2018.
A concurring opinion from Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente in a ruling that allowed three bundled questions to appear on the state's November ballot. One of the questions, for instance, asks voters to ban offshore drilling and workplace vaping.
The Department of Justice and internet service provider trade associations, which sued the state for enacting a law that sets different ground rules for internet protections in California, have also agreed to put that lawsuit on hold until 2019.
For a long time, Christine Hallquist was unsure—of exactly who she was, of exactly what she could do. Not anymore. Today, as the Democratic nominee in Vermont, she’s now battling to become the nation’s first transgender governor.
Investigators who doubted the woman's story leaked their concerns to Daily News columnist Mike McAlary, who wrote she may have made up the attack in a story headlined "Rape hoax the real crime."
The county will now open a Sunday polling place at Prairie View City Hall and expand voting hours at the university's campus center on Monday through Wednesday of next week to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., instead of the original 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Republican National Committee has apologized for inaccuracies in a mailer sent recently to Montana voters that could have resulted in votes coming in too late to count.
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