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At least two people in Tallahassee have received a racist robocall targeting the Democratic nominee for governor, Andrew Gillum, that references a comment made earlier this week by his Republican opponent.
A letter from the Texas Education Agency about funding for schooling in migrant shelters highlights the ongoing push and pull between federal and state agencies.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen said Texas and six other conservative states that sued to block DACA couldn’t prove that allowing the program to continue was causing irreparable harm.
An analysis done by his own Environmental Protection Agency concludes that the plan would lead to a greater number of people here dying prematurely, and suffering health problems.
Employees are the most valuable assets of an organization yet when looking for areas of efficiency and ways to save money, they aren’t always the first to be asked.
The unprecedented legislation implements an automatic statewide process to potentially reduce or dismiss sentences and records for crimes that are no longer illegal under state law. Other states are pursuing similar policies.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, on cities' pursuit of supervised injection sites where people can safely use drugs and avoid overdosing. It marks the first time a high-ranking federal justice official has commented on the issue.
Final day that Puerto Rican hurricane refugees can stay in hotels with funding from the federal government.
If Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti intervenes in the labor dispute, political observers say practically every potential outcome could hurt his future.
People still staying in taxpayer-funded hotels and motels under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Transitional Shelter Assistance program, commonly called TSA, will be allowed to stay until Sept. 14.
Five years ago, several shocking fatalities pushed the police department to expand its crash investigation squad. Apart from renaming the unit, little has changed.
Of the 31 states and Washington, D.C., that have legalized medical marijuana, at least seven have enacted laws or regulations that allow students to use it on school grounds, in part because doing so could risk their federal funding.
Teachers seeking enhanced education funding also have walked out in recent months in West Virginia, Arizona and Oklahoma.
The Legislature's Government Oversight Committee, in an unprecedented move, sent a letter Wednesday to Gov. Paul LePage condemning his actions at a public meeting last week during which he called a lawmaker, "the most repugnant human being," he's ever seen.
Prosecutors in New Jersey cannot unilaterally decriminalize marijuana possession in their jurisdictions, the state attorney general announced Wednesday, but they are being encouraged to use their discretion with people charged with low-level cannabis crimes.
Gov. Gina Raimondo and the state’s education commissioner took executive action Wednesday to ban all firearms, except those carried by police officers, from public schools and grounds in Rhode Island.
A top Justice Department official is putting cities considering medically-supervised drug injection sites on notice: If you open one, prepare for swift and aggressive legal action.
Is one of corporate America’s savviest companies reconsidering its reliance on subsidies, or is it seeking to avoid further regulation?
Congressman Ron DeSantis, the GOP nominee for Florida governor, talking about his Democratic opponent, Mayor Andrew Gillum, who would be the state's first black governor. Democrats accused DeSantis of using "monkey" as a racial slur.
State government websites that passed security tests performed by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
In an unexpected decision, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the ballot measure's wording was misleading to voters.
The elections come at a crucial time for health care.
Voters in Connecticut approved a transportation "lockbox." But historically, they do little to address transportation funding problems.
A report published on Monday by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation analyzed hundreds of state webpages, including sites dedicated to business registration, the procurement of fishing and hunting licenses and traffic citation databases.
The new law is a response to the epidemic of overdose deaths from narcotics, which killed almost 2,000 people in the state in 2016 and an estimated 72,000 people nationwide last year.
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has placed prisons statewide on lockdown, after a series of incidents in which correctional officers were hospitalized in connection with exposure to an unknown substance.
Republican gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis said Florida voters should not "monkey this up" by embracing the agenda offered by Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is developing new policies around campus sexual misconduct that would enhance protections for students accused of assault while also shielding colleges and universities from liability.
GOP officials from 16 states are asking the Supreme Court to decide that federal civil rights law doesn't protect workers on the basis of gender identity.
The Detroit school district is shutting off drinking water to all of its schools after test results found elevated levels of lead or copper in 16 out of 24 schools that were recently tested.
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