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The Los Angeles Police Department, roiled more than two decades ago by an infamous police beating video, entered a new era Wednesday, publicly releasing police body camera video in what will be a regular process aimed at increasing transparency when officers use force.
The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously sided with the state against the city of Toledo in a decision that could cost the city millions of dollars if it continues to use stationary traffic cameras.
Houston is one of three cities still in the running to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention after party officials cut the list of potential sites in half.
The elections director for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told county clerks Wednesday to comply with a federal court ruling that bans voter registration requirements, reversing preliminary guidance that left the issue in limbo for two days.
Trump administration lawyers and California's attorney general jousted in a Sacramento courtroom Wednesday over a trio of laws designed to limit the state's involvement in enforcing federal immigration policy.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Wednesday announced that she had signed an executive order prohibiting the city's jail from accepting new detainees of the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
There are 239 immigrant children separated from their parents and now in the custody of a social service organization in East Harlem that is placing them in foster homes, Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday -- and the youngest is just 9 months old.
A federal investigation initiated when West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry brought his concerns about Supreme Court spending to federal investigators has culminated with Loughry himself being indicted on 22 federal charges alleging fraud, witness tampering and lying to investigators.
Civilian-owned guns in the United States, which outnumbers the population. The country holds roughly 40 percent of the world's firearms but only makes up about 4 percent of the global population.
At least she didn't used to. Now, she says, times have changed.
His executive order, signed on Wednesday, comes after days of governors and mayors escalating their words of opposition into actions attempting to block the immigration policy announced in April.
Oklahoma will become the first state in the nation to oversee coal ash disposal within its borders, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday, a decision that pleased utility companies and worried environmentalists.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will sue the federal government over its policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the southern border, as more than 70 of those children have wound up in facilities in New York State _ with a federal source telling the New York Daily News the number of separated children here is even higher, 311.
Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order on Tuesday that will bar any state resources from being used to help federal authorities separate children and their parents who are seeking to enter the U.S.
D.C. voters backed Initiative 77 Tuesday, raising the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, up from the current level of $12.50, and phasing out the $3.33 an hour minimum wage for tipped workers.
California would lead the U.S. in significantly changing the standard for when police can fire their weapons under legislation that cleared its first hurdle Tuesday after an emotionally charged debate over deadly shootings that have roiled the country.
In a high-stakes and fast-moving legal dispute, Gov. Paul LePage on Monday filed a second appeal of a lower court ruling requiring the administration to move forward with an expansion of Medicaid approved by Maine voters in 2017.
The New York Police Department will spare many people who smoke marijuana in public from getting arrested and will give them a ticket instead.
A bipartisan group of seven governors rejected President Donald Trump's request to send their states' National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border because they object to the administration's policy of separating minor children from asylum-seeking adults.
Aubrey Vincent, sales manager for Lindy’s Seafood, a crab wholesaler on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Lindy's and other "picking houses" rely on seasonal Mexican laborers with H2-B visas to process the crab harvest. But the federal government this year changed the way it distributes those visas, moving from a first-come, first-served system to a lottery. Half the state's crab houses failed to get visas, leaving them without any workers for the upcoming season. One seafood wholesaler previously told the Baltimore Sun that "this is going to cause the price of crab meat to go out of sight. There’s not going to be hardly any Maryland crab meat."
Number of sessions convened by the Louisiana Legislature in the past three years. The latest session, which began Monday, is already the fourth one called by lawmakers in 2018.
Lawsuits are costing governments millions, and, in some cases, forcing them to shut down departments.
Improving the on-time completion rate is critical to ensuring communities' economic health. Mayors have an important role.
The decision is unlikely to have widespread impact but represents a rebuke to the White House.
Gov. Charlie Baker is reversing a decision to send a Massachusetts National Guard helicopter to the country’s southern border, citing the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents.
Lawmakers have already tried -- and failed -- to reach a consensus on taxes in a regular session in 2017 and two previous special sessions this year.
Democrats no longer make up a majority of registered voters in Kentucky, dipping below 50 percent for the first time since at least the World War II era.
The intensified hostility between the governor and state Legislature pushes New Jersey closer to the possibility of a second state government shutdown in two years.
