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The increase in marijuana arrests—659,700 in 2017, compared to 653,249 in 2016—is driven by enforcement against people merely possessing the drug as opposed to selling or growing it, the data shows.
Police said in a news release that Hall fired Amber Guyger after an internal investigation found the officer had engaged in "adverse conduct" when she was charged with manslaughter three days after the shooting.
BuzzFeed reported that the meeting is set to take place Tuesday at 10 a.m. between top Department of Justice officials and the attorneys general from Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, Tennessee, Utah and D.C.
More than one in five respondents to a survey about sexual harassment at the state Capitol have experienced unwanted sexual contact, uncomfortable visits or phone calls, sexually provocative jokes and stories and other forms of inappropriate workplace behavior.
Immigrants who rely on public benefits for food, housing and medical care could be denied green cards under new rules put forth Saturday by the Trump administration that would in effect limit family-based "chain migration," as the president calls it.
States -- up from 15 last year -- that could not weather a moderate economic downturn without resorting to budget cuts, according to Moody's Analytics.
Kathleen Richardson, a robotic ethics professor who leads the Campaign Against Sex Robots.
Four years ago, lawmakers snuck a term-limits extension onto the ballot. Now, thanks to recent statehouse scandals, voters may roll that back.
Supporters of so-called Marsy's Law hope eventually to amend the U.S. Constitution.
After months of headlines about missing runaways, foster children sleeping in offices and high-profile deaths, this was the last thing the Kansas Department for Children and Families wanted to see.
As part of its promise to make the nation’s capital a welcoming place for immigrants, the District has vowed it won’t turn over arrestees to federal immigration agents unless that person is a convicted violent offender.
After recent media reports of sexual abuse, the agency investigated all Southwest Key facilities and "was unable to substantiate multiple complaints regarding overcapacity, failure to report to law enforcement, staff qualifications, and the safety and care of children at Southwest Key."
Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, chair of the Joint Legislative Subcommittee on Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response, and state Senator Holly Mitchell, the committee’s vice-chair, each donated $2,500 each to Garcia’s reelection campaign last week.
Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that he had signed the Patient Right to Know Act, making California the first state in the nation to require physicians to inform patients when regulators put them on probation for harming those under their care.
In a denial letter, the department cited an advisory opinion from state Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) that deemed as unlawful the plan by the school system in far southwest Virginia.
Since fiscal 2017, the first full year of privatization, the per-member cost of Iowa's Medicaid program has risen an average of 4.4 percent per year, according to the non-partisan Legislative Services Agency.
In the last three years, a dozen states have banned localities from passing paid leave requirements, more than doubling to 22 the states that now outlaw such local ordinances.
Brad Parscale, the campaign manager for Trump’s 2020 reelection effort, has said Facebook effectively embedded staff in the campaign’s offices in San Antonio two years ago, helping with technical advice on how best to reach voters with Facebook’s advertising platform.
Voters in Colorado, Missouri and Utah rejected new money sources for roads, while Californians opted to keep a recent gas tax hike.
Massachusetts voted to keep a 2016 law that protects transgender people from discrimination in public spaces.
State or local candidates endorsed by Democratic Socialists and advancing to the general election.
Comments about the New Jersey governor's inauguration speech caught on tape. They were allegedly made by Michael Saudino, the sheriff of Bergen County, and have led the governor, Phil Murphy, to call for his resignation.
Sheila Stubbs says she's knocked on thousands of doors in Madison, Wisconsin, in her 12 years as a county supervisor and has never had a problem in the community.
The secretary of state is tapping the social media site's extensive reach to persuade inactive voters to update their registration in time for the November election. Richardson appears on a video targeted only at the 447,000 names on the state's inactive voters list.
With less than two months until the November election, the Wisconsin Elections Commission has hired several new staff members to help with election security.
The Weinhardt Law Firm based the 35-page report released Thursday on interviews with 29 current and former IFA employees, witnesses not employed by the state and "high-level decision-makers" in state government, including Gov. Kim Reynolds, the report states.
The study also found that mail ballots cast by youngest voters, blacks and Latinos were much more likely to be rejected than mail ballots cast by white voters, and that those voters are less likely to cure problems with their ballots when notified by election supervisors than other voters.
Authorities in the town of Coeymans (KWEE'-mihnz), just south of Albany, say 61-year-old John Allen was arrested and arraigned Wednesday.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is calling for the resignation of the Bergen County sheriff after a New York City radio station obtained a recording of the law enforcement official making racist remarks about African Americans and marijuana.
In a major victory for civil rights groups, a federal judge has banned Dallas County from using a predetermined schedule to set bail without considering other amounts or alternatives that would allow the suspects' release from jail.
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