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Gov. Cuomo on Monday said he wants to codify Obamacare into New York law while at the same time directing the agency that oversees the insurance industry to reject proposed large health care rate hikes.
Former President Barack Obama released a slew of candidate endorsements in races across the nation Wednesday and pledged his involvement in the fast-approaching midterm elections.
The Trump administration on Thursday moved to revoke California’s authority to set its own strict tailpipe emissions rules and mandate the sale of electric vehicles, as it proposed weakening Obama-era federal fuel efficiency standards.
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic push Wednesday that would have provided $250 million to beef up election security.
After congressional Republicans repeatedly failed last year to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Trump promised to “let Obamacare implode” on its own.
A federal appeals court decided Wednesday that the Trump administration may not withhold federal funds from California's immigrant-friendly "sanctuary" cities and counties.
The activists behind the “Calexit” proposal to cleave California are scrapping their old plans in favor a new secessionist proposal, one that would create what organizers call an “autonomous native nation” within a new independent state.
Illinois Lawmaker, Member of Sexual Harassment Task Force, Resigns After Ex-Girlfriend's Accusations
A Republican state lawmaker tasked with helping find ways to prevent sexual harassment stepped down Wednesday following a report of accusations he sent nude photos of an ex-girlfriend to other men online.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed got another big get on Tuesday when 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, said he will come to Michigan to campaign for him just two days before the Aug. 7 primary election.
More income that Asian-Americans in the top 10 percent earned than Asian-Americans in the bottom 10 percent in 2016, representing the biggest income gap within a major racial or ethnic group.
Steve Geller, a Democratic commissioner in Broward County, Fla.
Insurers will again be able to sell short-term health insurance good for up to 12 months under final rules released Wednesday by the Trump administration.
Amid a national outcry and a spate of legal challenges, a federal judge in Washington state issued a restraining order late Tuesday that effectively blocked the Texas group that planned to publicly post files that would enable people to make 3D-printable guns.
The chairwoman of the Spokane County Republican Party offered a defense of James Allsup during a meeting of local conservatives this month, claiming the 22-year-old alt-right provocateur -- whose views have been widely condemned as racist -- was a victim of "label lynching" by the political left and the mainstream media.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Tuesday denied claims by the union representing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement employees that city police officers would not respond to their urgent calls for service during a recent occupation by protesters.
A proposal to create a bipartisan commission to draw Michigan's political lines -- intended to stop political gerrymandering -- will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled late Tuesday.
Among the many things the current administration has been criticized for is its lack of a unified strategy to combat cyber threats, especially in light of ongoing election interference and psy ops perpetrated by Russia.
The Massachusetts State Police have pledged to protect the residents of Blandford after all four members of the town's police department resigned this week.
President Donald Trump swung through Tampa on Tuesday to boast his administration's job creation efforts and to put his thumb on the scale in the state's hotly contested Republican primary for governor.
Population data for residents living in areas prone to flooding and growth estimates for U.S. counties.
North Dakota is conducting a prison experiment inspired by Norway, a country with recidivism rates three times lower than in the U.S.
The California city, known for its out-there policies, will be the nation's first to issue municipal bonds using cryptocurrency.
Already short-staffed and underfunded, these offices have been hit hard by the opioid crisis.
Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza may be better known, but this festival has been going strong since 1924.
Any blue wave would have to be pretty big to threaten these popular Republican incumbent governors.
Justice Goodwin Liu, in the California Supreme Court's unanimous ruling requiring employers to pay workers for tasks they regularly perform before or after their regular work hours.
People in Florida ordered to surrender their guns since March, when a state law took effect that lets judges revoke weapons from people deemed a threat to themselves or others. The law was passed in the wake of the Parkland school shooting.
Before it goes on vacation, the U.S. Senate could significantly cut child welfare funding in states with anti-discrimination policies protecting LGBT people who want to adopt or foster.
An employee at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has won the first refund of mandatory union fees stemming from last month's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that public employees cannot be required to pay unions dues or fees if they opt out of membership.
Hoping to head off a full expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, some senior officials in the Trump administration and Republican governors have been pushing hard for a smaller expansion to satisfy a growing political demand in their states.
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