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Public institutions across the country invest in the private prison operators of immigration detention centers and contract directly with the federal immigration enforcement agency.
Georgia state Rep. Jason Spencer, who announced his resignation shortly after his appearance on the TV show "Who Is America?" aired. In the episode, Spencer drops his pants to expose his bare bottom, yells the n-word and makes offensive remarks about Chinese people -- all under the impression that these tactics would help him avoid being kidnapped or attacked by a terrorist in the future.
Salary for the head of Florida's top domestic violence organization, which is state-funded. The exorbitant pay has prompted a state audit of the organization.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office sued five mortgage foreclosure companies and their owners on Wednesday, alleging the firms scammed vulnerable homeowners into paying $280,000 for services they never received.
Tennessee can use controversial drugs to execute inmates on death row despite concerns from defense attorneys and experts that doing so is "akin to burning someone alive," a Nashville judge ruled Thursday.
Employers in California must pay their workers for tasks they're regularly required to perform for a few minutes before or after their regular work hours, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday, rejecting a federal standard that allows employers to withhold the additional pay.
Tiffany Carr runs the state's top domestic violence organization, a nonprofit that uses public money -- state and federal -- to finance shelters and other essential services. And she makes a good living.
A suspected arson fire that erupted in the San Jacinto Mountains near Idyllwild continued to spread Thursday as a second, smaller fire ignited just miles away and required the diversion of some firefighting resources.
A federal judge in Portland has ruled that allowing a transgender high school student in a small Oregon school district to use the boys' locker room and restrooms doesn't violate the privacy rights of other students who object to sharing the spaces.
Stepping into the land of the Trump resistance, Seema Verma flatly rejected California’s pursuit of single-payer health care as unworkable and dismissed the Affordable Care Act as too flawed to ever succeed.
It's plausible that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was "motivated by discriminatory animus" when he added a question regarding citizenship status to the 2020 census, a judge wrote Thursday, allowing a lawsuit over the question to proceed.
After years of fights between Washington state and the Yakama Nation, the debate is heading to the U.S. Supreme Court.
One official in Pennsylvania wants to make it easier for municipalities to disincorporate.
New Jersey's Gurbir Grewal, the nation's first Sikh attorney general, talking about the radio hosts who were suspended for calling him "Turban Man."
Facebook will be legally required to end its practice of allowing businesses to block certain groups like blacks, gays and immigrants from viewing ads under an agreement reached with the Washington State Attorney General's Office.
New Jersey 101.5 hosts Dennis Malloy and Judi Franco have been suspended "until further notice" over the duo's derogatory comments about state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.
Assault weapons registered in California since a state law took effect last year that requires them to be registered with law enforcement. The same law banned the sale of some assault rifles but allows people to keep the ones they already own.
With the future of Roe v. Wade uncertain, the state is on the verge of repealing its 173-year-old law that criminalizes abortion. Similar efforts are underway in some other states.
The Occupy ICE camp that held ground for five weeks outside the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Southwest Portland is not the first time protesters have camped out for weeks on end in protest of national issues.
After 40 years as a Republican, Lori Stegmann has had a change of heart -- and political party.
An Iowa judge Wednesday issued a temporary injunction barring the state from implementing some provisions of Iowa's new voter ID law.
With Gov. Scott Walker planning to extend a tuition freeze on UWvSystem campuses for another four years if he's re-elected, UW-Stout and UW-Eau Claire officials said Tuesday they hope such a move would be accompanied by an increase in state aid.
It can help policymakers prepare their retirement systems for the next downturn while building long-term sustainability.
The decades-old debate in New Jersey over how to fairly fund public education took another turn Tuesday when Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law the first major revamp of the state’s modern school funding formula since it was enacted in 2008.
After a less-than-flattering portrait of Kingman emerged on Sacha Baron Cohen’s new series, with residents saying black people "aren't welcome" and Muslims create "problems," representatives for the northwestern Arizona city of about 29,000 hit back.
Calling it a "ham-handed" effort to keep young voters from casting ballots, a federal judge Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional an opinion issued by Gov. Rick Scott's administration that barred early-voting sites on college and university campuses.
A federal law has done little to advance transportation fairness for low-income communities. Progress is up to local leaders.
To recover quickly from a major outage, electric utilities should be stockpiling critical equipment. Regulators can help make that happen.
Students who are defrauded by their schools would have a harder time getting their federal loans erased under new rules proposed by the Trump administration Wednesday.
The online retail giant's new relationship with public schools and agencies raises concerns that the company is cornering the marketplace and costing taxpayers more money.
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