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California Gov. Jerry Brown's announcement at the Global Climate Action Summit last week.
When Gov. Jerry Brown said California should launch its own satellite in the 1970s, the plan was considered so far-fetched that critics dubbed him Gov. Moonbeam.
Women running for governor this year who won primaries, which represents a 26 percent success rate. That's roughly half the success rate of female candidates for Congress this year. Georgia, Maine and South Dakota could elect their first female governor in November.
The latest from Florence, plus recent coverage on how states and cities across the country are planning for the next big storm.
While much attention has been paid to the influence of natural gas, nuclear power generation also increased in a number of states where those sources were most dominant.
As hundreds of thousands of people evacuate the coastal areas of South Carolina, more than 1,000 inmates in a Charleston County detention center will hunker down and weather out Hurricane Florence, a spokesman for the sheriff's office said.
As part of an effort to "streamline" the social studies curriculum in Texas, the State Board of Education voted on Friday to change what students in every grade are required to learn in the classroom.
The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit in 2017 on behalf of two Democratic lawmakers, arguing that the state constitution gives legislators the power to set budgets.
The company said it will use the financing to move ahead on permitting, design and engineering on what would be the first high-speed rail in America.
There's a lot that governments can do to connect disadvantaged communities to economic opportunities.
With its pollution and wildfires, climate change should be a central issue to anyone living in Los Angeles — let alone to the man running it.
According to Center for Women and American Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers, 61 women -- 41 Democrats and 20 Republicans -- filed to run in 2018. The previous record was 34 women who filed to run in 1994.
As rain from Florence continued to lash the Carolinas, the region’s swollen rivers were beginning to swamp coal ash dumps and low-lying hog farms Sunday.
Since the Pennsylvania report, several other states have launched investigations into the Catholic Church. But in some of them, laws prevent many child victims from seeking legal justice.
Public advocate and endorsed Democrat Letitia "Tish" James won the Democratic primary for New York State attorney general, making her the favorite to win the seat in the general election in November.
After four years as the Baltimore health commissioner, Dr. Leana Wen is stepping down to take a job as the new head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
New definition of anti-Semitism adopted by the U.S. Department of Education. Critics say it "classifies virtually all criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic."
People living in poverty in California alone. The state ties Florida and Louisiana for the highest poverty rate -- 19 percent.
Two of those allegations were received just this year — with one case revealed publicly for the first time Thursday in a letter to Catholics from Bishop Oscar A. Solis.
Florida is one of seven states that bar people with a criminal record from receiving victim compensation. The laws are meant to keep limited funds from going to people who are deemed undeserving.
State and local leaders need to pay a lot of attention to how businesses take advantage of the federal law's capital-investment provisions.
The vote reverses the board's earlier decision and bookends a decades-long fight to remove what some critics have called a racist emblem of California's past.
Julia Salazar, 27, rode the progressive wave, toppling long-term state Sen. Martin Malavé Dilan in a district that includes swaths of Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Cypress Hills.
It's one of 44th President's first forays back into politics as the midterms approach and Democrats fight to regain seats in the U.S. House and Senate.
The storm's worst scenes so far -- still an hour or two before landfall -- have emerged in the besieged town of New Bern, where about 150 people called for help overnight, city officials said.
His statements in back-to-back morning tweets came while millions of Americans were anxiously watching the path of Hurricane Florence as it headed toward the Carolinas.
The Associated Press called the race for Cuomo at 9:30 p.m. EDT, a half hour after polls closed. Cuomo had an early 65.9 percent to 34.1 percent lead with about a quarter of the vote counted.
Just over half of this year's candidates endorsed by Democratic Socialists are advancing to the general election. They could win seats for school boards, city councils and legislatures in 20 states.
The annual National League of Cities report signals potentially more challenging times ahead for many localities.
On his way out of office, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is set to create a task force that would consider whether to make monthly no-strings-attached payments to a group of Chicago families to help them make ends meet.
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