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A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a Texas law that requires fetal and embryonic tissue from most failed pregnancies be buried or cremated, striking a blow to anti-abortion activists and delivering another defeat to the Texas Attorney General's Office, which defended the law in court.
Tallahassee mayor and Democratic nominee for governor Andrew Gillum announced former primary rival Chris King of Orlando will be his running mate Thursday morning, in a choice that is likely to continue to appeal strongly to progressives who lifted Gillum to victory a week and a half ago.
A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday rejected a request from a group of Republican-led states to suspend the Affordable Care Act, but he extensively quizzed attorneys involved in the latest challenge to the 2010 health care law about which provisions should survive.
A year filled with teacher strikes and sexual harassment scandals has led candidates for governor to talk more about how they would treat their state's workforce.
Bill Pound, the executive director of the National Conference of State Legislatures since 1987, helped preserve bipartisanship among lawmakers.
The Vermont Department of Corrections put out bids earlier this year for a new contract to house inmates that they say do not fit in Vermont's in-state facility.
Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, Hispanic Federation and three other groups say federal law requires Florida to have bilingual voting materials and poll workers available to people who aren't proficient in English.
Miami state Rep. Jeanette Nuñez is to be named Republican Ron DeSantis’ running mate Thursday, the first time a Cuban-American woman has been chosen as a lieutenant governor candidate in Florida.
Albuquerque has made a lot of progress in recent years. There are lessons in how it jumped to near the top of the rankings.
Some states are turning to emergency or short-term licensure to put more teachers in the classroom.
California's dramatic reduction in its prison populations hasn't compromised public safety.
The reason for the policy change: the Shelby County attorney's office ruled in April that the sheriff's office doesn't have to obey the federal requests to hold these immigrants.
Standard measures of accountability don't capture the progress made by students who have struggled at traditional schools.
The new requirement, which will be agreed upon formally in a federal court hearing Thursday morning, marks a win for Attorney General Lisa Madigan who had pushed for the new level of documentation as part of her ongoing negotiations with Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Tens of thousands of Californians have been registered to vote incorrectly by the state Department of Motor Vehicles, including some who were assigned the wrong political party preference, officials said Wednesday.
Immigration authorities want North Carolina elections officials to turn over nearly a decade’s worth of voting records by the end of the month.
More than 100 public school districts and universities, faced with the prospect that the next attacker may be among their own students, have hired social media monitoring companies over the past five years.
The LePage administration complied with a court order Tuesday and finally submitted required documents to the federal government to expand Medicaid to 70,000 Mainers, but there's a catch. Gov. Paul LePage -- an expansion opponent -- is asking federal officials to deny the application.
Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday renewed his call for accountability in Maryland's local school systems, but Democratic challenger Ben Jealous said that what they really need is more funding.
New Jersey has become the first state to regulate its drinking water for a man-made, toxic chemical compound once used in making nonstick cookware and now linked to a variety of health problems.
States are starting to integrate mental health into their curriculum -- whether it's English or biology class.
A Kentucky lawmaker's reported response to Gregory Davis, the state's former associate chief medical examiner, asking for more resources.
A patient advisory committee is helping researchers refine study questions and research design.
Polling places that closed in the three years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key parts of the Voting Rights Act. Many of them were in majority-black areas in the South.
Federal wildlife officials have opened an investigation into dolphin deaths off Southwest Florida, where a red tide is suspected of killing 41 dolphins in August alone amid widespread fish kills across five counties.
This year alone, 10 counties with large black populations in Georgia closed polling spots after a white elections consultant recommended they do so to save money.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Gonzalez has won his party's nomination, and will face off against Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, who handily beat far-right primary challenger Scott Lively on Tuesday.
The Republican governor pitched a similar proposal to senior voters when he was running four years ago.
North Carolina's 13 congressional districts will remain in place and so will the Nov. 6, 2018, election, a federal three-judge panel ruled Tuesday.
The court's decisions apply to federal cases in nine Western states, including California. Tuesday's ruling will become a binding precedent unless it is successfully appealed.
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