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The city of Cleveland is a finalist for this year’s City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities build and grow their network of local businesses and entrepreneurs of color.
The city of Atlanta is a finalist for this year’s City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities build and grow their network of local businesses and entrepreneurs of color.
State unemployment insurance trust funds were decimated during the last recession. A decade later, many still don't have the funds to weather the next downturn.
Fraternity members at Louisiana State University adhere to age-old rituals, shrouded in secrecy, that dictate how they gather, greet each other and initiate their young pledges.
While she is still in the lead, Supervisor London Breed didn't make much progress in her quest to become San Francisco's next mayor. The latest batch of election results released Monday show her leading Mark Leno by 1,601 votes, or 50.38 to 49.62 percent. That's an increase of just 21 votes over Sunday's total.
Gov. Murphy on Monday signed into law the state's sports-betting bill, ending a short delay that drew criticism from many state politicians and making history after the state's six-year battle to legalize sports wagering.
The San Juan National Forest in southwestern Colorado will shut down for the first time in its 113-year history as the drought-driven 416 fire has climbed to 22,131 acres.
Illinois' Republican congressional delegation signed a letter Monday asking President Donald Trump to leave Democrat Rod Blagojevich's prison sentence intact, saying any clemency for the imprisoned former governor would "set a detrimental precedent" and damage efforts to combat public corruption.
The U.S. Department of Justice went on the attack against the University of Michigan's free speech code Monday, saying universities and colleges haven't done a good job of creating true freedom of speech on their campuses.
New York City will likely pay $2 billion to settle claims that the nation's largest public housing agency has too often left tenants to contend with lead paint, malfunctioning elevators and rats.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson is backing off plans to triple the minimum rent paid by some of the country's poorest households, citing Congress' move to defy the administration and boost his agency's budget.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on why he vetoed a bill that would have qualified someone, including a child, for medical marijuana. Only five of the 30 states and the District of Columbia that allow medicinal marijuana list autism as a qualifying condition.
The number of opioid overdose deaths in Wisconsin in 2016 that were among people age 55 or older. While the majority of deaths from opioids are of those in their 20s and 30s, older adults are an overlooked group that presents special challenges, says Paul Krupski, director of opioid initiatives for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday voted 5-4 to uphold Ohio's method for removing ineligible voters from its rolls, saying it does not violate the Failure-to-Vote Clause or any other part of the National Voter Registration Act.
The money collected will go to a “dedicated testing evidence account” controlled by the state comptroller. The Governor's Criminal Justice Division will then distribute the funds to qualifying crime labs and agencies on an application basis.
The effort comes on heels of a Michigan law that now requires districts to have plans in place to cut back on the number of students being suspended or expelled, or risk losing some state funding.
A University of Cincinnati study found no evidence of groundwater contamination from recent oil and natural gas drilling in several Appalachian counties in eastern Ohio.
The group is meeting this week in Chicago to vote on it. Although medically assisted death has gained ground in this country -- with six states and the District of Columbia legalizing the practice -- it remains a divisive issue among health-care providers.
Polls show support for the law increasing as it becomes more imperiled, and the result has been a political sea change. Now Democrats see it as a winning prescription -- even in red states.
A federal judge in Indianapolis has blocked state election officials' plans to purge voters before the November election because they may be registered in another state.
With a June 30 deadline looming, the points of contention -- Gov. Phil Murphy's proposed tax increases, how to equitably fund schools -- haven't changed much.
Today marks the official end of the government’s net neutrality rules, a change that comes as a judge is expected to rule Tuesday on whether AT&T can buy Time Warner. The two developments could lead to further consolidation of wireless, cable and content giants, public interest advocates say.
The U.S. Justice Department said late Friday it agrees the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should be terminated. That court filing came after Texas and six other states filed a lawsuit last month to end the 2012 program.
"It is America's cities that are here, ready to save Washington," says the Los Angeles mayor and potential 2020 candidate.
President Donald Trump said he likely will support a congressional effort to end the federal ban on marijuana, a major step that would reshape the pot industry and end the threat of a Justice Department crackdown.
New traffic signals in Detroit are designed to help pedestrians, cyclists and ambulances get through intersections, while helping traffic planners test safety improvements quickly.
Lyrics on a poster in a kindergarten classroom meant to help students know what to do during lockdown drills. It apparently goes to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."
Homes that have been destroyed by lava from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano since May, making it the most damaging eruption since at least 1980.
In a short, unanimous ruling, the Washington Supreme Court Thursday brought an end to the yearslong school-funding saga known as the McCleary decision.
The Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed Thursday that a Phoenix law protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination is constitutional and that local wedding vendors must serve same-sex couples.
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