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After the most violent weekend in Chicago in more than two years, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced Tuesday afternoon that several hundred additional officers have been deployed to neighborhoods most wracked by the shooting.
Undocumented workers in Idaho have the right to claim workers’ comp payments and even temporary disability payments if they’re hurt on the job.
In Tuesday night’s initial primary results, Democrats appear to have a shot at picking up four Republican-held state Senate seats.
Robert McCulloch's 28-year run as St. Louis County's elected prosecutor came to a stunning end Tuesday when he was upset by a Ferguson councilman who promised to reform the criminal justice system.
The race for the Republican nomination for Kansas governor -- a contest in which President Donald Trump endorsed his close political ally Kris Kobach -- was too close to call late Tuesday.
Immigration lawyers and advocates saw red Tuesday amid reports that the Trump administration plans to make it all but impossible for legal immigrants to become citizens if they have ever relied on public welfare programs such as the Affordable Care Act.
Rise in the number of Americans living in high-risk floodplains from 2000 to 2016.
Ku Klyx Klan flyers being distributed across New York state. Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered the state police to investigate them.
In a test of public support for unions following the Supreme Court's Janus ruling, voters rejected Missouri's right-to-work law on Tuesday.
It's been another good year for public pension investment returns. But the gains won't make a big difference in their overall fiscal health.
Cities used to stay out of courtroom battles over health. Not anymore. Their new Obamacare lawsuit represents a growing strategy.
When Florida Sea Grant director Karl Havens, who is a well-regarded expert on water and has studied pollution all over the world, began hearing about a deepening algae bloom in his own backyard in Lake Okeechobee this summer, he struggled to find information that could tell him what was going on.
Maryland has launched a pilot program that will allow anyone to power their home with solar panels -- even if they are renters, condo-dwellers or live in the shade of trees.
The relentless wall of flame north of Clear Lake known as the Mendocino Complex grew into the largest fire in California history, outpacing 15 other conflagrations that blanketed the skies with smoke, state fire officials said Monday.
Officers worked for hours Monday to unchain protesters as they occupied the property of a private prison company's corporate headquarters, shutting down Nashville-based CoreCivic's office building for the day.
The governor said Friday that he has directed state police to investigate white supremacy flyers being distributed in a number of communities, most recently in Oneida County in central New York.
Beating her fellow Democrats and then defeating a sitting Vermont governor for the first time since 1962 are only the beginning.
West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using a smartphone app, a move designed to make voting in November's election easier for troops living abroad.
The endorsement from President Trump came -- as they often do -- in a tweet.
Local labor shortages are helping workers with only a high school education -- or less -- find employment.
Florida politicians from both parties used to have a sweet tooth for campaign contributions from the state’s powerful sugar industry.
Washington, D.C.'s Metro is no longer considering separate trains for protesters attending the white nationalist "Unite the Right" rally on Aug. 12.
The Kentucky Department of Revenue has collected at least $50 million since 2006 from students who owed money to nearly all of Kentucky's public universities, and gotten millions more in fees.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the National Rifle Association's federal lawsuit against him is "frivolous." The lawsuit claims that Cuomo's policies are trying to deprive the NRA of its First Amendment rights by making it more difficult for the organization to function in the state.
Marijuana users in New Jersey — which is on the verge of legalizing weed — are arrested at the highest rate in the nation by local police departments, some of which report that more than a third of their arrests were for pot, a USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey investigation found.
Wherever he takes his campaign for governor, Abdul El-Sayed is followed by activists handing out information about “Medicare for all.” When he grabs the microphone, El-Sayed makes a promise: He’ll bring universal health care to Michigan.
Despite the residual effects from last year’s devastating hurricanes, Puerto Rico is moving ahead with major cuts to its health care safety net that will affect more than a million of its poorest residents.
Something familiar happened in America in February: A gunman walked into a school, and shot and killed 17 students and staff in a horrific act of violence.
Criminal defense attorney Richard Lomurro, on New Jersey's highest-in-nation arrest rate for marijuana possession.
Rachel Parker, a writer and marketing strategist in Missouri, referring to St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch, who is the state's longest-serving elected official. He faces a serious challenge in Tuesday's primary, particularly because of his controversial handling of the Michael Brown case.
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