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Gov. Phil Murphy wants New Jersey to utilize one of the most quintessential, lucrative and risky practices of Silicon Valley: venture capitalism.
The announcement by the Department of Taxation and Finance came within hours of a bombshell report in The New York Times detailing dubious tax schemes that Trump participated in with the help and blessing of his late father, Fred Trump, in the 1990s.
In the first midterm elections under Donald J. Trump, whose campaign and presidency included strong appeals to white voters, Republicans have no black or Hispanic nominees for governor in 2018
Using threats of shame or economic harm to coerce a person into having sex will become explicitly illegal in Maryland under one of the hundreds of new laws that take effect Monday in the state.
Eight people were hospitalized when a truck crashed into a large group of people protesting early Tuesday.
Michael Cioffi, police chief of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., allegedly caught on tape talking about the town council president.
Cases dismissed in the last two years by a largely unregulated "secret court" in Massachusetts, which is unlike any other in the country and run by governor-appointed clerks who may or may not have gone to college. In nearly 30 percent of the thrown-out cases, some involving death, a clerk concluded there was probable cause that the accused committed a crime. Police and politicians include people who have dodged charges this way.
In the Massachusetts criminal justice system, closed-door hearings are often held in private offices without public notice. The outcome is up to the discretion of a single court official who may not have a law degree.
States with large immigrant populations are particularly worried for 2020.
Starting in January, the city will add $10 million toward paying officers' salaries. The increase will provide some cops with roughly an additional $10,000 more a year.
Because of local officials’ inadequate enforcement of registration requirements, 1,259 registered sex offenders failed to follow law, Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway said.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey spoke with reporters this morning after a press conference about the state's new Security Operations Center and cybersecurity website.
The high court's decision ends the long-running legal battle to overturn the measure approved by 53 percent of voters in one of the most contentious and expensive ballot fights in state history.
Clinton formally endorsed Pritzker during a Chicago visit in April after he won the Democratic primary by a wide margin.
Among those Democrats to get a shoutout in Obama's latest round of endorsements was Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who's locked in a tight battle for the Florida governor's mansion, and Ben Jealous, who's looking to oust Maryland's Republican governor, Larry Hogan.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed a bill into law that makes California the first state to require corporate boards of directors to include women, saying that despite potentially "fatal" legal problems in the measure, it is time to force action.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is not running for re-election against Democrat Beto O'Rourke, but during an early morning interview on national television, it was clear the El Paso Democrat is on Abbott's mind.
In 2016, Coloradoans voted against abolishing slavery as punishment for a crime. This year, they had a change of heart.
The older a state is, according to new research, the more likely it is to have money problems.
Standing water is the perfect breeding ground for one of the South's most plentiful pests.
A Seattle woman says state Sen. Joe Fain raped her in 2007 after a party in Washington, D.C., spurring bipartisan calls Friday for an investigation into one of the state Capitol's most prominent Republican legislators.
Gov. Jerry Brown ushered in a new era of transparency in California law enforcement on Sunday, signing two new laws that for the first time give the public access to internal police investigations and video footage of shootings by police officers and other serious incidents.
Monique Laxalt, a cousin of Nevada's Republican nominee for governor, Adam Laxalt, at a fundraiser for his Democratic opponent that she hosted. Six other family members of Laxalt reportedly attended the fundraiser to support his challenger.
State sex education programs that mention the terms "healthy relationships," "sexual assault" or "consent."
Andrew Gillum's political committee has brought in $3.8 million from people affiliated with the Democracy Alliance of big donors, out of a total of $9.6 million. And the money is still coming in: California billionaire Tom Steyer pledged $5.2 million to Gillum on Wednesday.
Rep. Kiah Morris, D-Vermont, announced the move Tuesday on Facebook and further explained her motivations in interviews this week. Morris represented the town of Bennington.
Statewide, the NRA gave about $1 million in cash and noncash grants to public and private schools from 2010 to 2016, according to a McClatchy review of tax data collected by The Associated Press.
Mandela Barnes, who is black, has accused Republican Gov. Scott Walker of ignoring "people who look like me," said President Donald Trump wants to create "a superior race" and alleged that Republicans are "using the Donald Trump playbook trying to come at me with the most racially excitable things."
The fundraiser for Democratic opponent, Steve Sisolak., was hosted by two of Adam Laxalt's cousins in Reno, Nevada.
On Friday, Attorney General Karl A. Racine of the District of Columbia said in a statement that the new policy "ignores decades of state, federal, and international law."
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