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Racine argues Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by refusing to provide information about immigration enforcement actions between July 9 and July 12 that resulted in 12 people being detained.
While the attorney general in Washington does not have jurisdiction over most criminal matters except for some misdemeanors, Racine can investigate potential civil violations.
Arizona Republican state Rep. Heather Carter, who helped create a pilot vaccine education program that a governor-appointed council just cancelled due to complaints from people opposed to vaccines. The program gave parents seeking a "personal belief exemption" from required immunizations the option of learning about vaccines through an online course.
Maternal mortality rate for every 100,000 live births in California in 2013, which is down 55 percent from 16.9 in 2006. During the same period, the U.S. rate rose from 13.3 to 22, ranking it near Afghanistan, Lesotho and Swaziland.
A rundown of the most interesting and consequential local measures.
Advocates had said Pennsylvania was one of a dwindling number of states that suspended driver’s licenses for convictions such as drug offenses, a practice that became widespread during the war on drugs policies in the 1990s.
They reject cases that include DNA evidence, witnesses, and sometimes even confessions, records show.
The practice was revealed in a San Francisco Chronicle story on Sunday that said the department has, since at least 2011, required potential hires to sign a waiver allowing the department to conduct background checks for financial records, education transcripts and other information.
A letter of resignation dated Oct. 20, the same day Michael Dunn was arrested, was hand delivered to Lakeland City Hall on Monday afternoon.
California has made a difference in part by focusing narrowly on problems that arise during labor and delivery, using data collection to quickly identify deficiencies (such as failing to have the right supplies on hand or performing unnecessary C-sections) and training nurses and doctors to overcome them.
The information-sharing program is a rare example of the Trump administration building on an effort that launched during the Obama years.
In states that expanded Medicaid, the insurance program already covers addiction treatment for nearly everyone who is poor and needs it.
States would be able to use federal funding to provide subsidies to people buying short-term health insurance policies, which typically don’t provide comprehensive coverage, under guidance released Monday by the Trump administration.
Jed Limke, head of Reform Fargo, which is promoting a ballot measure for the North Dakota city to adopt "approval voting" in which people can vote for as many candidates as they want.
Sale of recreational and medical marijuana from January to August in Colorado, marking the earliest it has hit $1 billion.
The party's outlook has improved since last month. It's likely to gain between three and 10 seats in November.
St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones reflects on her loss in the mayor's race and what she's been doing since.
Marijuana sales in Colorado exceeded $1 billion as of August of this year, with tax revenue from those sales coming in at $200 million, according to a report from the Colorado Department of Revenue and its Marijuana Enforcement Division.
But on the issue of grocery taxes, voters in the Pacific Northwest were divided.
The pilot online course, modeled after programs in Oregon and Michigan, was created in response to the rising number of Arizona schoolchildren skipping school-required immunizations against diseases like measles, mumps and whooping cough because of their parents' beliefs.
Police said Sunday that an officer out on a midnight tour on Saturday before noticed smoke coming out of the bottom of his body camera and removed it immediately.
With less than three weeks to midterm elections in which New Jersey is a congressional battleground, election-security experts warned that the state's voting machines remain vulnerable to hacking.
Gov. Rick Scott's order gives the eight counties the ability to extend early voting days and to designate more early voting locations, even though the deadline to do so has passed.
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker announced Friday he is dropping his bid for re-election, and threw support to Democrat Mark Begich over Republican Mike Dunleavy.
Poll workers can be the difference between a smooth election and long lines, mass confusion and miscounted ballots. But poll workers are older, less prepared and becoming scarcer.
More voters showed up to cast ballots in party primaries than in years past, and polls show more voters say they are enthusiastic about or closely following news about the election than in prior contests.
Both Democrats and Republicans are talking about infrastructure investment on the campaign trail, but only one party tends to have more detailed and ambitious plans.
Voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have made the position appointed.
States with confirmed cases of a rare, "polio-like" illness that has affected at least 62 children. The mystery condition causes weakness in the arms or legs — and sometimes paralysis.
Massachusetts State Sen. Michael Barrett on natural gas oversight in the state. Last month, a series of explosions and fires destroyed dozens of homes in Massachusetts due to excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas.
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