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Eight months pregnant, the drug sales representative wore a wire for the FBI around her bulging belly as she recorded conversations with colleagues at a conference in Chicago. Her code name? Pampers.
Maryland lawmakers have introduced two U.S. House bills seeking to better safeguard election systems following the disclosure that a state election software vendor had ties to a Russian investor.
The GOP-controlled House on Thursday eliminated new funding for states to strengthen election security, drawing protests from Democrats who said Republicans are not doing enough to prevent Russian meddling.
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill that places Massachusetts among a growing number of states making it hard to not be registered.
Smart cities are paying more attention to the fixtures that define their streets, looking to improve mobility and maximize the value of these assets.
Many are tapping into tax revenues, making hospitals help, or adding work requirements and premiums to account for their increasing share of the expansion bill. In some, the debate is so heated that it's ended up in court.
There are things union-friendly states could do -- and some things they shouldn't.
The Property Assessed Clean Energy loan program has come under attack, but its benefits are clear.
Tweet from the Republican Party chairman of Belmont County, Ohio, Chris Gagin, announcing his resignation on Monday.
Year that Republican Bobby Wilson, an Arizona state Senate candidate, shot and killed his mother, which he revealed at a gun control event where he advocated against gun control legislation and for arming more "good guys."
If the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with preexisting medical conditions are struck down in court, residents of the Republican-led states that are challenging the law have the most to lose.
With the addition of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court could have a conservative majority to strike down bans on semiautomatic weapons in liberal states and to decree that law-abiding Americans have a right to carry a gun in public.
The former top lawyer at the Oklahoma Health Department was accused Tuesday in a criminal charge of sending threatening emails to herself in an attention-seeking ploy.
The state Supreme Court decided Wednesday that California will remain intact geographically, at least for now, while it decides whether the voters can consider a proposal to divide the Golden State into three new states.
President Donald Trump gave Secretary of State Brian Kemp his "full and total endorsement" Wednesday in Georgia's Republican race for governor, dealing Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle a devastating blow in a bitter runoff.
The Cuomo administration has opened an investigation into whether President Trump and his charitable foundation violated state law, two officials confirmed Wednesday night.
Police say three state workers have been taken to a hospital after becoming ill in their Albany office when one of them opened a letter from a foreign country.
The Environmental Protection Agency has changed a rule requiring cleanup of ponds holding coal mining waste to give states more flexibility and postpone the deadline to close facilities that have contaminated the surrounding groundwater.
Philip Alston, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, as he toured a county in Alabama where hookworm, a tropical disease that's largely been eradicated in most developed countries, has been detected. The county suffers from poor sewage systems that leave many residents with open pits of human waste in their yards or raw sewage backing up into their homes after heavy rains.
States are stepping up their election security but face many challenges: a president still skeptical of Russian interference, a lack of money, and reliance on private vendors for voting equipment and software, to name a few.
Lead that U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis has in Florida's GOP race for governor, according to a new poll. President Trump endorsed him, and the respondents who knew that overwhelmingly support DeSantis while the respondents unaware of Trump's backing overwhelmingly support his opponent, state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam.
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.
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