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It wouldn't help many people, and it would cost states billions to implement.
After a weekend of high-stakes negotiations between Seattle City Council members and Mayor Jenny Durkan, the council voted unanimously Monday to tax the city's largest employers to help address homelessness.
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Mary Fallin vetoed a bill that would have allowed adults to carry handguns without a permit and signed another that permits religious organizations to exclude same sex couples from adoptions, managing to anger both gun and gay rights groups on the same day.
In President Donald Trump’s former life as a casino owner, he might have cheered Monday’s ruling from the Supreme Court that struck down a federal law that barred every state but Nevada from allowing betting on most sporting events.
Prosecutors dismissed a criminal charge against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens after a judge ruled Monday that his lawyers could potentially call Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner as a witness.
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday proposed reinstating the death penalty in Illinois for mass killers and people who slay law enforcement officers, injecting the idea into his re-election campaign by rewriting a gun control bill and sending it back to lawmakers.
Since the fatal shooting of 17 people at a South Florida high school, five states -- Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Rhode Island and Vermont -- have passed laws that allow authorities to temporarily take away guns from a person who has shown a pattern of violence.
Scott Maclay, the leader of the Rattlesnakes Motorcycle Club who has spent years accusing Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich of cover-ups and corruption, has taken a drastic step to show just how badly he wants Knezovich out of office.
Their success at changing harmful local ordinances illustrates the power of a good idea, solid research and enthusiasm.
Our Revolution, a national organization created by Sen. Bernie Sanders, on Monday endorsed Cynthia Nixon in her Democratic primary challenge to Gov. Cuomo.
Expressing sympathy for her plight, a federal judge nevertheless turned down a request by the National Rifle Association to keep the identity of a 19-year-old Alachua County woman secret in a challenge to a state law that raised from 18 to 21 the minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns.
People held in Louisiana jails for four years without a trial. "This is a huge problem in Louisiana and it is a problem nationally," said Bruce Hamilton, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Supreme Court outlawed a federal ban on sports betting on Monday, and some states are poised to capitalize.
Kansas state Rep. John Whitmer, on why he voted for a new law making it illegal for police officers to have sex during traffic stops.
In March, former Minnesota state Rep. Tony Cornish made a surprise visit to the state Capitol, where he attended committee hearings and talked to former colleagues.
Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls Lupe Valdez and Andrew White pounded each other over immigration and abortion Friday.
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point was among the victims of a computer hacker who was arrested in California on Thursday.
Last year’s race for state delegate in Newport News went down in Virginia history for its razor-thin margin. Republican David E. Yancey won on Election Day by 10 votes; Democrat Shelly Simonds beat him by a single vote in a recount. Then, a judicial panel declared a tie, so officials picked a name out of a bowl to determine a winner, and it was Yancey.
The elections supervisor in Florida’s second-most populous county broke state and federal law by unlawfully destroying ballots cast in Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s 2016 Democratic primary, a judge ruled Friday in a case brought by the congresswoman’s challenger who wanted to check for voting irregularities.
The futuristic possibilities associated with autonomous, commercial drone activity _ think food and package delivery, medical supply transport or enhanced border security _ will be realized in San Diego, and soon.
A proposed equal rights amendment to the Delaware Constitution was defeated in the state Senate on Wednesday even though several lawmakers who voted against the bill said they support the legislation.
HILO, Hawaii _ Kilauea's continued eruptions _ possibly a long windup to a major explosion at the summit _ forced more evacuations Sunday as yet another fissure opened and spattered lava along the volcano's eastern flank .
Congress passed drastic child welfare reforms that aim to reduce the removal of kids from their homes. But some worry they will cost states and harm children.
Nashville mayoral candidate Ralph Bristol, at a forum last week. His comments elicited gasps among the largely black audience.
Minimum age for getting married in Delaware, with or without a judge's approval. It's part of a growing trend of states raising the marriage age but the first state to make it that high.
Delaware has become the first state to ban child marriage.
Seattle “soda tax” revenue is exceeding projections, as city officials say the new tax has brought in more than $4 million in the first quarter of 2018.
At the start of the term at Charlotte Anderson Elementary School in Arlington, Tex., last year, Stacy Bailey, an art teacher, introduced herself to her new fourth grade students with a slide show of her life.
A lot is on the line for California on Friday in the White House, where top auto company executives will be meeting with President Trump.
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