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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.
Greenhouse gases and corporate profits don’t remain within state lines. Neither has money donated to both sides of this year's ballot measures.
A federal judge ordered Georgia election officials to end the "severe burden" facing some new U.S. citizens trying to vote for the first time, deciding Friday that they must be allowed to cast regular ballots if they show proof of citizenship at the polls.
The move to publicly disclose the probe appeared to break with tradition in the office, which oversees voting integrity, as it differed from how Kemp's team handled an earlier cyber breach at Kennesaw State University.
But the races in Phoenix and Little Rock, Ark., are headed for runoffs.
People who voted early, as of Friday morning, which is more than the 27 million who voted early in 2014, the last major midterm election.
Oprah Winfrey, in a speech on Thursday, campaigning for Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is running to be the nation's first female black governor.
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.
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