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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.
A businessman who is a political outsider or a former Nashville mayor will become the next governor of Tennessee, while the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate received a political shot across the bow.
The state is considering a policy that goes further than most places that tax short-term rental companies.
It has accepted one state's unprecedented proposal to lower the cost of prescriptions but rejected another's.
Some of them need collaboration that draws on the strengths of all three sectors -- public, private and nonprofit.
Lori Stegmann, a Multnomah County Commissioner in Oregon, on why she's leaving the Republican Party to become a Democrat.
Manual placement of voters in districts is a recipe for error. The solution is to enhance the use of GIS in the process.
Endorsements that former President Barack Obama made on Wednesday for candidates in races up and down the ballot.
Partnering with private accreditors could shape national standards while improving the quality of care.
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