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Calling the ad "demonstrably false," attorney Glenn Burhans Jr., penned a letter Thursday saying that the campaign "will take all available resources to prevent the spread of the false and defamatory advertisement."
The 5-2 decision from the Arkansas Supreme Court means the law, which requires voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot, will remain in effect in this year’s midterm election.
Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, an Indianapolis Republican and one of the state’s most powerful politicians, paid a law firm more than $40,000 in campaign funds this year in part to gather unflattering information about the former intern.
Democrats in the Senate, including Stephen M. Sweeney, the Senate president, said in a statement that they were disturbed by the allegations, but did not raise the possibility of legislative hearings.
The brief was filed Wednesday in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco. It was signed by California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra, along with attorneys general from Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Washington.
A number of states are blocking web traffic from foreign countries to their voter registration websites, making the process harder for some U.S. citizens who live overseas to vote, despite the practice providing no real security benefits.
Fatal police shootings rarely result in convictions. In Chicago and Texas, they just did.
Ed Rendell, a former Pennsylvania governor, mayor and district attorney, on why he joined the board of a nonprofit seeking to open the nation's first safe injection facility where addicts can use illegal drugs under medical supervision as a way to combat the opioid crisis. Such facilities violate federal law.
In a strongly worded decision that faulted the state's use of the death penalty as being "arbitrary" and "racially biased," the Washington state Supreme Court on Thursday abolished capital punishment.
Health insurance premiums in the 39 states that use HealthCare.gov will fall 1.5 percent on average for the most commonly purchased plans in 2019, marking the first time that rates have dropped since the 2010 health care law was implemented.
The Massachusetts State Police's effort to get rid of payroll records was "completely consistent with standard operating procedure" but not something they should be doing amid questions of payroll and overtime abuse, Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday.
A Mercedes, jewelry, designer shoes and trips to casinos; the young mayor of Fall River was living the high life, but federal investigators say it was done with stolen cash.
Virtually anyone can send millions of illegal robocalls and frustrate law enforcement with just a computer, inexpensive software and an internet connection, according to a coalition of 34 state attorneys general.
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal on Wednesday sued the federal government for failing to answer his Freedom of Information Act request seeking why Florida -- but no other Atlantic seaboard states -- was excluded from a plan to expand offshore oil drilling.
Before Hurricane Michael's 155-mile-per-hour winds blasted the Florida Panhandle Wednesday afternoon and eventually knocked out the power to thousands of households, scores of voters watching TV for news of the approaching hurricane were also presented with dark and stormy ads about statewide political candidates.
Cost of Oregon wildfires this year, which is an all-time high for the state. More than 1,800 fires burned 846,411 acres.
The revised trade pact keeps the original agreement's free trade zone intact while placing some new burdens on the auto industry.
Since June, six races have shifted in the party's favor.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said in April that Flint’s water was safe to drink. But here in Flint, where Mr. Snyder’s name is synonymous with villainy for many residents, his declaration has been largely ignored, and the crisis of unclean drinking water in the Great Lake state nicknamed “Pure Michigan” is very much ongoing.
"Hopefully he will never be employed by any [police department] in America," Tamir Rice's mother said during the news conference. "He is unfit to be a police officer, period."
The aggressive gesture drew a gasp from the audience and, judging from her expression, clearly startled Mahlberg. When Quam was done with his rebuttal, he then dismissively tossed the mic back at Mahlberg, again drawing commotion from the audience.
In defiance of threats from the Justice Department, public health advocates in Philadelphia have launched a nonprofit to run a facility to allow people to use illegal drugs under medical supervision.
An Associated Press review of a Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics database shows more than 60 civil asset forfeitures with nearly $200,000 in property taken by state and local agencies under a law that lapsed on June 30.
Successful efforts to bring the use of data and research into decision-making are both top-down and bottom-up.
Double-murderer Edmund George Zagorski, 63, had been scheduled to die Thursday night at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, in an execution he wanted to happen by electrocution.
Dr. Michael Golding compiled a "lengthy, detailed report" that inmate attorneys say contains "serious allegations" that data reported to the court overseeing a long-running case involving medical and mental health care inside California prisons "is inaccurate and has been presented in a materially misleading way," court documents say.
The structure of their tax systems doesn't align with their evolving economies.
As Secretary of State, Brian Kemp is in charge of elections and voter registration in Georgia.
With all the new information governments have available, it's too easy to focus on improving existing processes rather than on better ways to address underlying problems.
Since making landfall on Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the now tropical storm has left thousands of people without power, uprooted trees, turned homes and marinas into ruins and killed at least 2 people.
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