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Backing businesses over environmentalists, the Texas Supreme Court on Friday said cities like Austin may not ban retailers from providing customers with disposable bags at the checkout counter.
Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday signed a bill requiring able-bodied recipients of the state's Healthy Michigan Medicaid program to work or risk losing health care coverage.
Voters in Maine went to the polls earlier this month to do something they’ve never done before: rank candidates based on preference.
Scores of Lake County residents remained under evacuation orders Monday morning after a wind-driven wildfire ripped across thousands of acres of brush in Northern California, authorities said.
Federal law enforcement officers on Monday notified demonstrators camped outside Portland's Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters that they must begin to vacate federal property.
President Donald Trump traveled to one of his friendliest states Monday to help a supporter, avoid political embarrassment, and talk about himself.
Hundreds of them are now vacant, and they hold untapped value for meeting communities' needs.
Mayor Greg Fischer's parents taught him to care for others. He's using their lessons to lead Kentucky's biggest city.
The Texas case involves racial gerrymandering, while the North Carolina case deals with partisan gerrymandering -- something the justices have hinted is unconstitutional but have yet to rule against.
Voters will weigh in this fall on voter registration, campaign finance and redistricting.
Retail employment data for local areas suggests some places are benefiting significantly from e-commerce, while much of the rest of the country is lagging far behind.
Inside the $250,000 fight between Memphis and Tennessee.
The loss of jobs and the opioid epidemic are two of the biggest reasons.
Critics say West Virginia, which is enjoying an explosion of natural gas production and jobs, is repeating the missteps it made with the coal industry.
All-payer health care, the idea of paying hospitals a flat rate, is making a comeback.
Even the return to one-party rule hasn't helped the perennial budget battles in Trenton.
Chris Gautz, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections, on the state's struggle to hire people to work in prisons and jails.
Year that Hispanics are expected to outnumber every other demographic group in Texas.
Extinguishing the possibility that Texas could be placed back under federal electoral supervision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday pushed aside claims that lawmakers intentionally discriminated against voters of color when they enacted the state's congressional and state House maps.
The U.S. Supreme Court won't immediately take up arguments about whether North Carolina Republican lawmakers went too far in 2016 when they redrew the state's 13 congressional election districts to intentionally give their party a 10 to 3 advantage.
The Supreme Court has put off a further decision on whether shop owners who are conservative Christians have a religious freedom right to refuse to provide service or products for a same-sex wedding.
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the state to launch its medical marijuana program, reversing and dismissing a judge’s ruling that prevented officials from issuing the first licenses for businesses to grow the drug.
Farm legislation that would impose new work restrictions to qualify for food stamps narrowly passed the U.S. House after an earlier attempt failed last month because of conservatives' demands that an immigration vote be held first.
In a victory for privacy in the digital era, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Constitution protects tracking data from a cellphone, requiring police to have a search warrant to obtain cell tower records that can show a person's movement over days or weeks.
Bridgette Marshall, the wife of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, died Sunday morning.
President Donald Trump today made the first of what is expected to be several campaign stops in Las Vegas this election season in support of Nevada's leading Republican candidates.
A spreading wildfire threatened early Monday to cut off access to a rural community in northern California, where authorities ordered the evacuation of around 2,500 residents.
Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang will be leaving his post before the start of the new school year, he and Mayor Marty Walsh confirmed Friday. The news comes one day after a coalition of civil rights and student advocacy groups sued the Boston Public Schools to find out how much student information the system shares with federal immigration officials.
Protesters confronted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi at a showing of a documentary about children's TV host Fred Rogers, and they questioned the Republican's stands on immigration and health care.
Sworn statement from a 15-year-old boy from Mexico, on his experience while being held in an immigrant detention facility in Virginia for nine months. His and other children's claims of abuse have led the governor to call for an investigation.
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