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Governor candidates Jack Bergeson and Josh Svaty accused fellow Democrat Laura Kelly of lacking commitment to expand Medicaid in Kansas.
Gov. Chris Sununu has signed into law a controversial election bill that opponents say will constrain voting by students and other transient residents of the state.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner said Monday that he doesn't see "any reason" for Illinois to end its participation in a controversial multistate voter registration system, which critics have called inaccurate and vulnerable to hackers.
Journalists, researchers and political campaigns that receive voter data must tell California officials if it may have been stolen under a new law Gov. Jerry Brown announced he signed Monday.
A Manhattan federal jury on Tuesday convicted former State Senate leader and Long Island power broker Dean Skelos in his retrial of charges that he used his official power to corruptly secure work for his son, Adam.
Some New Mexico lawmakers expressed support Monday for reining in private prison growth in the state -- or doing away with private prisons altogether -- amid a roiling national debate over housing immigrant detainees.
A federal judge ruled in favor of the Trump administration — and against Planned Parenthood — in a lawsuit over changes to a government-funded family planning program.
The nation's top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, raising questions about the security of those systems and the integrity of elections that were conducted with them.
A first-of-its-kind study looks at how local news outlets shutting down impacts cities' and counties' finances.
Connecticut, Maryland, New York and New Jersey argue that new GOP tax policies violate states' rights and unduly punish their populations.
Campaign contributions that pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s political action committee made to top North Carolina leaders during a legislative session, which is illegal. Pfizer and the 37 officials, including the governor and the attorney general, must pay a fine.
Meghaen Dell'Artino, an Arizona lobbyist, recounting a conversation with Arizona GOP state Rep. Paul Mosley.
Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton announced Lang Sias as his running mate Wednesday.
A big crowd gathered in a Tucson church last week, ready to hear candidates' plans for gun-control legislation from people vying to become lawmakers at the state Capitol.
Voters handed Republican lawmakers a victory by passing a new supermajority requirement to raise taxes. But it's debatable whether it will actually curb tax increases.
In a case that has attracted national attention, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Monday that judges in the state have the authority to order people to remain drug free as a condition of probation and under some circumstances order a defendant jailed for violating the drug-free requirement.
Gov. Mike Parson signed on Friday legislation that institutes a minimum age of marriage in Missouri, capping an effort among lawmakers and advocates to crack down on child marriage in the state.
More than 7,000 people on Arkansas’ Medicaid expansion didn’t meet a requirement that they report at least 80 hours of work in June and face the threat of losing their coverage if they fail to comply sometime before the end of this year, state officials said Friday.
Gov. Bruce Rauner turned his attention to gun issues Monday, signing two bills aimed at combating gun violence, but saying he will veto a measure to regulate gun dealers.
The Cuomo administration will launch an investigation into tenant harassment allegations by the real estate company formerly headed by President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
A county Republican Party chairman from Southeast Ohio resigned on Monday, citing President Donald Trump's meeting earlier in the day with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The New York Police Department on Monday said that after four years it is done waiting and will place Officer Daniel Pantaleo on trial in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.
Top California Democratic Party officials jolted four-term incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein with a vote to endorse her November election opponent, fellow Democrat state Sen. Kevin de León.
Maryland officials are investigating a Russian investor's ties to a local software vendor that maintains part of the State Board of Elections' voter registration system, legislative leaders said Friday.
U.S. voters who had their personal information hacked by Russian military intelligence in 2016. Until recently, U.S. officials said only 90,000 voters -- all in Illinois -- had their data breached by Russians.
New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, criticizing her opponent, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, for saying that God made him a feminist by giving him three daughters.
President Donald Trump’s appointment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court has raised the prospect that a new conservative court majority might consider overturning or weakening the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion.
A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Los Angeles Times to remove information from an article that described a plea agreement between prosecutors and a Glendale police detective accused of working with the Mexican Mafia, a move the newspaper decried as highly unusual and unconstitutional.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday signed a bill that he says will provide both immediate and long-term tax cuts for Missourians.
Members of Russian military intelligence attempted to infiltrate local election administration systems during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, stealing the voter information of 500,000 Americans, according to indictments announced Friday by Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. deputy attorney general.
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