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From banning certain hiring questions to opening up pay discussions between coworkers, states and municipalities are addressing years of inequality.
Congressional hopeful Sylvia Garcia on Monday announced plans to step down from her Texas Senate seat in January, officially clearing the way for voters to elect her predecessor before the Legislature returns for its 2019 lawmaking session.
King County sheriff's detectives are investigating the alleged assault of Burien Mayor Jimmy Matta as a possible hate crime after he reported being attacked Saturday night by an unidentified man apparently angered about Matta's policies supporting Latino immigrants.
The Taos Municipal Schools superintendent said District Judge Sarah Singleton’s landmark ruling that state leaders must find a way to “remedy” New Mexico’s public schools by April has given her and her colleagues a renewed sense of hope.
Location-based apps like Yelp and Foursquare might be exacerbating housing problems in transitional neighborhoods.
U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, a Florida Republican candidate for governor, went off over the weekend on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a liberal Democrat who surprisingly won a Bronx district primary last month.
The Trump administration could move this week to revoke California's decades-old ability to set its own pollution limits for cars, a potential blow to the state's fight against global warming.
Boston police veteran William G. Gross made history yesterday when he was named the city's first black police commissioner -- an appointment that drew cautious praise across the board.
Democratic Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson’s handing out of nearly $200,000 at a recent South Side church event did not break campaign finance laws, the state board of elections ruled.
Russian hackers gained access to the networks of U.S. electric utilities last year, which could have allowed them to cause blackouts, according to federal government officials, who said the campaign is likely continuing, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Times this year that the national parks failed to meet federal ozone standards. A new study reveals that national parks have air pollution similar to that of major cities.
Eugene O'Donnell, a policing expert, on the news that Charlotte, N.C, has been picked to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.
With rents on the rise, cities are grappling with a growing population of "vehicular homelessness" -- a way of life considered illegal in many places.
After nearly 38 years, on Jan. 30 Malcolm Alexander walked away from a place he never should have been to begin with: the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Consumers will be harmed if Gov. Jeff Colyer wins a lawsuit over whether he can take $8 million this year from a state insurance fund, the Kansas insurance commissioner warns in a new court filing.
Three years ago, when New York City banned solitary confinement for inmates younger than 22 and curtailed it for others, Mayor Bill de Blasio held up the policy as a model for reform.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, political organizers and national law enforcement experts are preparing for huge protests and a massive police presence when the Republican National Convention arrives in 2020.
The Supreme Court confirmation fight brewing in Washington has made abortion a front-burner issue in governors races around the country, as Democrats warn that Republicans could try to ban the practice in their states if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
The National Rifle Association, Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation and two Seattle residents are suing Seattle over the city's new gun-safety law.
Secretary of State Brian Kemp's campaign for governor got a major boost Saturday from Vice President Mike Pence, who called him the best partner for the White House in an hourlong event that cast Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle as mostly an afterthought.
Steve Benjamin represents the interests of U.S. mayors. When it comes to his city, he's interested in the "three I's."
Charlotte won its second national convention in a decade Friday, kicking off two years of planning, fundraising and anticipation.
An email from Julie Ezell, to Julie Ezell. The then-top lawyer at the Oklahoma Health Department was charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor for posing as a medical marijuana advocate and reporting fake threats to law enforcement.
Tennesseans with Confederate flags on their license plates as of June -- a number that has been rapidly rising since a white supremacist killed nine African-American people at a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson called for state Rep. Mickey Gates to resign Tuesday as the Hot Springs Republican faces criminal charges of failure to pay state income taxes.
Dental and vision care benefits will be restored for hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients in a sudden reversal by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's administration following an outcry over the recent cuts.
Breaking a nearly three-week impasse, lawmakers agreed Wednesday to a $41.8 billion budget that jettisoned dozens of proposed policy changes that had snarled negotiations, including a plan to curb state cooperation with federal immigration crackdowns.
In a victory for Mayor Kenney and his signature programs, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Philadelphia's controversial tax on soda and other sweetened beverages.
The Environmental Protection Agency should have reacted much more quickly and forcefully to the Flint water crisis, even if it meant asserting emergency authority over the Michigan Department of Environment Quality, according to report released today the EPA's Office of Inspector General.
The Trump administration is taking a new step forward on its plan to impose work requirements in Kentucky’s Medicaid program, despite a federal judge blocking the move last month.
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