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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.
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, in prepared comments read before journalists Monday morning, said his reputation has been "dragged through the gutter."
Longtime Mayor Joseph Migliorini resigned on Monday, citing an incident outside a Florida restaurant in April when he was charged with misdemeanor battery.
The Maine House sustained Republican Gov. Paul LePage's veto of a funding bill for Medicaid expansion Monday, handing him another victory in his long campaign to stifle expansion of the program to another 70,000 Mainers.
A Supreme Court ruling last month that said public sector workers can't be forced to pay fees to unions they don't want to join could squeeze overall union revenue, limiting organized labor's ability to champion a variety of progressive causes that affect private sector workplaces as well, some labor experts say.
A federal judge dismissed the Trump administration's lawsuit against California's "sanctuary state" law on Monday. The decision marks a major victory for California in its ongoing battle with the federal government.
Ohio Rep. Emilia Sykes gets stopped by security trying to enter her place of work. She wants others to share their stories of prejudice.
Number of fatal alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2016, which is the highest since 2009.
Terry Riggleman, a prisoner who has filed one of the first class-action lawsuits against a state prison system for not treating inmates with hepatitis C, a potentially fatal liver disease which he has. A cure is available -- for the cost of $40,000 to $90,000 per inmate -- but at least 144,000 inmates are not offered it.
State prisons across the U.S. are failing to treat at least 144,000 inmates who have hepatitis C, a curable but potentially fatal liver disease, according to a recent survey and subsequent interviews of state corrections departments.
Gov. Bruce Rauner this year reported turning a profit from a health care group that services U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers, including facilities that hold immigrant families with children.
The showdown between police and the organizers of a march against gun violence culminated Saturday in the shadow of the 76th Street overpass on the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Robert D. Ray, born in 1928 near the campus of Drake University, in Des Moines, took to politics early.
Health insurers warned that a move by the Trump administration on Saturday to temporarily suspend a program that was set to pay out $10.4 billion to insurers for covering high-risk individuals last year could drive up premium costs and create marketplace uncertainty.
In an attempt to avoid pushback states have received on Medicaid work requirements, Mississippi reinstated beneficiary protections into its waiver proposal. A Medicaid waiver is a state request to the federal government to deviate from various program requirements. Mississippi is one of several states that has asked the Trump administration for permission to impose work requirements on low-income, able-bodied caretakers otherwise eligible for Medicaid.
It's unconstitutional for the state of Tennessee to continue revoking driver's licenses from people who can't pay court costs, a federal judge determined Monday.
Spending is up on airports but down or flat for schools, highways and prisons.
Ruling from U.S. District Judge John Mendez, an appointee of George W. Bush, in a case brought by the Trump administration against three of California's so-called sanctuary laws. Mendez upheld two of them.
Wildfires raging, in 11 states, last week.
The American struggle to curb opioid addiction could become collateral damage in President Donald Trump’s showdown on trade.