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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.
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.
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