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Net worth of J.B. Pritzker, the governor-elect of Illinois. Once he takes office, he will be the richest sitting politician in the country, surpassing President Trump, whose net worth is $3.1 billion.
The party now has 14 "trifectas," compared to the Republicans' 22.
The trajectory of health policy -- from Medicaid to abortion to soda taxes -- is set for change in some states.
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, announcing on early Wednesday morning that she refuses to concede in her race against Republican Ron DeSantis.
The last time only one state legislature was under divided control in the entire country, which is the case after Tuesday's elections.
Efforts to raise state taxes largely failed. That wasn't the case at the local level.
Their victories mirrored their numerical gains in the governors' races.
If they ultimately flip the four seats where they have the lead, the party would take the majority of attorney general seats nationwide.
Most red states will stay red, and the blue states will remain the minority. But voters did reject several more ideological candidates in favor of politicians who presented themselves as more pragmatic.
In Georgia, Democrat Stacey Abrams refuses to concede.
Gov. Paul LePage said Monday that he plans to move to Florida for tax reasons and teach at a university there regardless of who Mainers elect to succeed him.
Four Tennessee death row inmates challenging the constitutionality of capital punishment in their state are asking a federal judge to allow them to bypass lethal injections or the electric chair in favor of another method: death by firing squad.
The mailer sent to 4,000 voters includes a genuine photo of Gov. Brad Henry and LaVelle Compton together. Next to the photo is a made-up Henry quote describing Compton as "an exceptional young man who will be an asset to our Legislature."
The New York Times and other outlets are reporting that Amazon decided to use the two locations to house 50,000 employees, ending speculation and serenades over the past year by politicians in major cities.
The robocall, audio of which was posted on social media, features a man attempting to impersonate former talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who campaigned for Democrat Stacey Abrams in Georgia last week.
Recent financial disclosures show that Kris Kobach, a driving force behind dozens of proposals across the US designed to suppress minority voting and immigrant rights, has accepted thousands of dollars from white nationalists.
Twenty years ago, Oregon became the first state in the nation to conduct all statewide elections entirely by mail.
"Voting rights are constitutional rights, and they're part of what it means to be an American," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement.
The state's GOP-controlled legislature hoped voters would approve measures to give them more say over judicial and ethics appointments, but both were defeated soundly.
Local governments in nearly all states reported slight increases in staffing for accounting, budgeting and other areas of public finance.
Tweet from Democratic consultant Steve Schale, on news that more than 4 million people in Florida had already voted as of Friday.
The governors' races rated as tossups. They are in Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Virginia state Rep. Jennifer Carroll Foy reflects on her first year in office and how she got there.
The likely outcome of six races has changed in the last couple weeks, with three becoming tossups. But one thing is still clear: Democrats are set to gain ground.
As yet another University System of Maryland leader lost his post Thursday, consequences of the turmoil that followed the death of football player Jordan McNair began to materialize: The flagship institution's main accreditation under scrutiny. Academic officials condemning a breakdown in integrity. A major donor withholding support.
City testing of Chicago homes with water meters found nearly 1 in 5 sampled had brain-damaging lead in their tap water, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel's water commissioner acknowledged Thursday that the city continued installing new meters after learning about the alarming results in June.
The Department of Defense identified the U.S. servicemember killed in Afghanistan in an insider attack Saturday as Maj. Brent Taylor, a member of the Utah National Guard and the mayor of North Ogden, Utah.
The problem was first discovered about Oct. 15, when some voters who received the letter called to say they had received it in error, Democratic Director Eric Fey said Thursday night.
More than $284 million has been raised for the Illinois governor’s race, more than the nearly $280 million spent in the record-setting 2010 California gubernatorial race.
