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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.
Rent increase that would trigger a Portland, Ore., policy that requires landlords to pay tenants' moving costs. They would also be on the hook for that bill if they evict someone without cause.
There are early, but scattered, signs that Democrats will use new tariffs as a wedge issue.
Expected increase in Obamacare premiums next year because of President Trump's expansion of short-term health plans that are cheaper than Obamacare plans and do not fully comply with the Affordable Care Act.
Austin recently took a new tack in the ongoing war between “sanctuary cities" and federal immigration authorities.
While signing into law a bill imposing longer prison sentences for "merchants of death" dealing fentanyl, Gov. John Kasich said he is leaning toward supporting a ballot issue to prevent many low-level drug use and possession offenders from being sent to state prisons.
Hours after the Catholic Church changed its official teaching Thursday to fully reject the death penalty, a trio of bishops urged action to halt an upcoming execution in Nebraska.
The Department of Health and Human Services says 96 organizations will get funding under the federal family planning program this year.
In a mea culpa, Haddam Democratic Selectwoman Melissa Schlag, who garnered widespread attention for kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance in protest of President Donald Trump, said on Facebook Wednesday that comments she made were not intended to make all of her town seem "racist or fascist."
Calling a new Trump administration proposal to roll back fuel efficiency standards "insane," Pennsylvania's Attorney General Josh Shapiro said the state would join 18 others, including California, to legally challenge the sweeping plan to scrap Obama-era rules that set increasingly higher standards.
A dire warning from the National Weather Service has forced an evacuation around the College Lake Dam in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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