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The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy increases the likelihood of extreme restrictions passing legal scrutiny.
Some promising signs suggest the city may be turning around its troubled school system. It offers lessons for other struggling districts.
Like many other Sunbelt cities, Music City is trying to figure out what kind of place it wants to be.
It's cheaper, legal and kills more people than opioids. But public officials are much more united in the fight against drugs than alcohol.
Mark Tallman, a lobbyist for the Kansas Association of School Boards, talking about a proposed constitutional amendment that would block the state's Supreme Court from reviewing overall spending on schools. Momentum for the measure is growing after the court ruled, again, that lawmakers are not adequately funding education.
Ballots not counted in the final round of Maine's primary earlier this month because they did not rank the candidates who ended up being the final two. It was the first time ranked-choice voting was used for a statewide election in the U.S.
Mayor Acquanetta Warren credits her father for her big dreams. "You've been to the moon," he used to say. There was some truth to that.
That's the advice of Kristen Cox, who lost her sight in her 20s and became a client of public services. Now, her job is to oversee them.
The 5-4 decision -- that employees can opt out of paying fees to unions that represent them -- could invalidate laws in more than 20 states and significantly weaken unions across the country.
A federal court ruled Tuesday that the Virginia House of Delegates unconstitutionally packed African-American voters into 11 legislative districts and ordered the General Assembly to draw new district lines by Oct. 30.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily narrowed the scope of a nationwide injunction against the Trump administration's attempt to withhold grants from so-called sanctuary cities.
Voters in Oklahoma approved a ballot measure making the state the 30th in the nation to allow broad access to medical marijuana.
As expected, Washington's Attorney General Bob Ferguson has challenged the Trump administration in court over its policy to forcibly separate immigrant families, contending in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 17 states and the District of Columbia Tuesday that President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy violates constitutional due-process rights of parents and children and runs afoul of federal asylum laws.
Calls for a state constitutional amendment to restrain the Kansas Supreme Court are growing louder after the justices ruled again that lawmakers are not adequately funding schools.
Two Columbia natives and State House veterans will face one another in the November general election for S.C. governor.
Former NAACP chief Ben Jealous won Maryland's Democratic primary for governor Tuesday, promising to deliver a progressive agenda that makes college free, legalizes marijuana and raises the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour.
The Colorado governor’s race is set: Democrat Jared Polis will face Republican Walker Stapleton in a November election in which President Donald Trump, marijuana and big money are expected to dominate.
Mick Cornett and Kevin Stitt advanced to a runoff on Tuesday for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, while Democrat Drew Edmondson easily secured his party's nod for the general election.
A lawsuit alleges that Washington, D.C., illegally wooed "creative-class" millennials at the expense of longtime residents. Others argue, "this is not a conspiracy. This is capitalism.”
The Louisiana Political Museum may be the only one if its kind.
As more shopping moves online, most places are suffering job losses. But not everywhere.
The state has a history of inspiring environmental movements across the country.
States are making products for women and children -- particularly those in prison or poverty -- more affordable.
Job vacancies in the South Carolina corrections system at the time of a deadly riot in one of the state's prisons in April.
Billboard that went up in Texas in response to another billboard that had a less-welcoming message: "Liberals, please continue on I-40 until you have left our GREAT STATE OF TEXAS."
The Supreme Court Tuesday upheld President Trump's ban on foreign visitors and immigrants from six nations, ruling that the chief executive, acting on his own, has the power to target foreign nations and block their citizens from entering this country.
Supreme Court justices on Tuesday sided with anti-abortion groups in a case over what information crisis pregnancy centers have to give patients.
Cat Goughnour is pushing several cities to give community members more say in urban design.
A snapshot of the Democratic Party—and national politics—right now: A guy who lost a Senate race two years ago surprised many people on Monday by jumping into a mayor’s race rather than a 2020 White House run. But he still believes he can and will claim a spot in the national conversation from city hall.
A judge on Friday found Arizona’s prisons chief to be in civil contempt of court and fined the state $1.4 million for failing to adequately improve health care for inmates.
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