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There will be no straight-party voting option this year in New Mexico.
Nearly one in five Californians still lives in poverty despite the state's vigorous recovery from the Great Recession and its low unemployment rate.
In its bid to start collecting a sales tax on internet purchases, Colorado could run afoul of the Supreme Court's ruling.
Alabama and West Virginia voters preemptively criminalized abortion in case Roe v. Wade is struck down. But voters in Oregon defeated an attempt to restrict coverage.
A 75-year-old resident of Charleston, S.C.'s James Island, referring to her husband's resistance to heed evacuation orders as Hurricane Florence approaches.
Campaign cash held by Democratic nominee for Maryland governor Ben Jealous late last month. His GOP opponent, Gov. Larry Hogan, has $9.4 million. Jealous is one of several progressive gubernatorial candidates lagging behind in fundraising.
Oregon voters were the first to directly weigh in on immigration during the Trump era.
Juli Briskman said she plans to run in 2019 as supervisor for the Algonkian District in Loudoun County, where she will face Republican Suzanne Volpe.
Pro-Medicaid expansion advocates who are suing to force Maine to roll-out voter-approved Medicaid expansion have encouraged Mainers to apply for Medicaid expansion this summer. But LePage said the plan is to deny those applications “until they’re funded.”
Four months before widespread problems with the city's lead poisoning prevention program burst into the open, then-Health Commissioner Bevan Baker was warned by a staffer that they would face serious consequences if the public learned just how deep the troubles ran.
For the second time in his political life, Allan Fung, the son of Chinese immigrants and four-term mayor of Cranston, has captured the Republican nomination to run for governor.
Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday started what will be a closely watched process to replace three Florida Supreme Court justices who will retire in January, with the appointments possibly leading to a major ideological shift on the court.
More than a dozen states now offer grants, often called scholarships, promising to help qualifying students pay for some or all of their college education.
The legislation will also mean New Yorkers can change the gender on their birth certificate without a doctor's sign-off -- instead, they will be able to self-attest to their gender identity.
Perhaps no other population is as vulnerable during a hurricane as frail, older adults, especially those who are homebound or living in nursing homes.
A Washington federal court judge on Wednesday ruled the department’s postponement of the so-called Borrower Defense rule was procedurally improper.
Local governments are turning to data-driven tools to meet growing waste management challenges.
The research is clear: Proactive law enforcement does reduce crime. Reducing racially disparate outcomes is the next challenge.
Controversial state Senate candidate Julia Salazar said Tuesday that she was sexually assaulted by a top spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has ordered the National Rifle Association to stop selling liability insurance in the state without a license.
Seth Rogen in announcements for Vancouver's public transit, which he offered to do free of charge.
Proposed nurse-to-patient ratio for psychiatric wards under a ballot measure that would make Massachusetts the second state with such staffing requirements. The ratio varies based on what type of patients nurses are helping.
The move is intended to turn back a surge in chlamydia and gonorrhea, which have made double-digit increases in the suburban county.
46 states have some version of the program popularized by New York's Kendra’s Law, known in the mental health lexicon as “Assisted Outpatient Treatment,” or A.O.T.
Throughout the campaign, Molly Kelly accused Chris Sununu of "shooting from the hip" too often, sucking up to the Trump administration and embracing an energy policy that's far more friendly to major utilities contributing to his campaign than it is to energy consumers in the state.
State laws boosting wind and solar power have seen remarkable success over the past two decades.
Tens of thousands of low-level marijuana convictions could be erased with the OK of Brooklyn's top prosecutor under a new plan for wiping records clean of offenses no longer being prosecuted in parts of the nation's biggest city.
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said the newly formed Office of Public Integrity and Accountability will be led by a longtime federal prosecutor with a record of high-profile public corruption convictions.
In a further sign of the sprawling nature of the Justice Department’s effort to collect voting records in North Carolina, prosecutors demanded eight years of information from the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles, according to a copy of the subpoena obtained by The New York Times.
The department's new civil rights head has re-opened a discrimination case against Rutgers University brought by a Zionist group that the Obama administration closed four years ago.
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