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Barack Obama says all the voter registration drives and first-time candidates running for office this year are “inspiring” — but that in the existential battle for America he’s been warning about, it's not enough.
Even as Democratic primary challenger Cynthia Nixon criticizes his record on women's issues, Gov. Cuomo picked up the backing Wednesday morning of a leading pro-abortion rights group.
Gov. Kay Ivey took a small step Tuesday toward stopping Alabama from allowing sheriffs to pocket public money allocated to feeding local inmates that they do not spend. But despite some early news reports, Ivey alone cannot and did not end the longstanding practice.
Hours before he was to be put to death, a convicted killer was spared execution Wednesday when a Nevada judge granted an injunction sought by the maker of a sedative that has been at the center of several botched executions.
A weeklong encampment of activists protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy came to an end early Monday, when nearly 40 people were arrested overnight in San Francisco.
Mayor de Blasio denied illegally crossing the border between the United States and Mexico last month -- ripping U.S. Customs and Border Patrol for the "absolutely ridiculous allegations" he said were designed to distract from President Trump's policies and intimidate his critics.
Lino Graglia, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, on President Trump's nominee to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is retiring at the end of this month.
One-year savings for the state of Louisiana from criminal justice reforms that resulted in its prison population dropping to the lowest level in 30 years.
The state and county have failed to fix the unsanitary conditions for years, and at times threatened to arrest citizens over them. An outbreak of a once-eradicated disease has prompted the United Nations to get involved.
The federal government wants to roll back an Obama-era rule that lets some Medicaid payments go toward unions that represent home health care workers -- one of the fastest-growing and lowest-paid jobs.
Atlantic County Republican Chairman Keith Davis said Tuesday he won’t withdraw his support for congressional candidate Seth Grossman, despite Grossman’s sharing of a racist article from a white nationalist website on social media.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s rulings on federal regulatory power, and his approach to the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, provide the best hints of how he might rule on cases involving states’ rights.
Ofo said Monday that it has pulled its bikes out of Chicago as a result of locking rules which the China-based company said make it too difficult to provide service.
Hawaii has become the latest state to ban bump stocks in the months following a mass shooting in Las Vegas, where the device was used to kill 58 people.
Nevada plans to carry out the first execution using fentanyl, a drug at the heart of the US opioid epidemic, on Wednesday.
The Trump administration is cutting most of the funds previously provided to groups that help people get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act and will push them to promote plans lacking the law’s benefits and protections, a government agency said on Tuesday.
The House version of the food-stamp-to-work program Congress is considering this week would require recipients to enroll in job training programs if they can’t find work — but in many states, those programs won’t be fully available for at least another decade.
Environmental protection quickly is becoming a big issue in the 2018 election as more toxic algae blooms slime estuaries, kill sea life and choke coastal Florida communities with foul air.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order on Monday with the aim of protecting access to contraceptives for women in New York. At the same time, he called on the state Senate to reconvene to pass a bill that would make Roe v. Wade protections state law.
Charlotte, N.C., is using the sporting event as an opportunity to close the investment gaps between businesses owned by white women and people of color.
What would the U.S. look like without Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide?
More people are casting primary ballots than four years ago. But that year, turnout was the lowest since World War II.
We don't need more policy initiatives. We need to rethink our processes.
Green bonds help governments finance environmental projects. It's unclear whether they help governments' finances.
Instead of making low-income kids travel for meals when school is out, Minneapolis is bringing the food to them.
Gary Schuelke, a police watch commander in San Bernardino, Calif., on the first time he responded to a homicide. The victim was a 13-year-old girl.
Taxpayer dollars the state of Texas has paid anti-abortion advocates to help defend its abortion restrictions in federal court. Of the 21 advocates, judges disregarded the testimony of six.
Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer on Friday backed President Trump's efforts to reach better trade agreements with other countries as the United States launched a trade war with China that has alarmed some farmers.
Fresh off a victory in a Democratic gubernatorial primary in which he campaigned on universal health care, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis tapped a cancer foundation executive and former state lawmaker to be his running mate.
Mayor de Blasio on Monday announced a massive new campaign to definitively figure out once and for all the true scope of the lead paint problem in the city's public housing.
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