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A growing number of states are limiting access to them.
A new database provides the first-ever national look at evictions. It shows that they happen more often than you think in places you might not expect.
Monthly pension for the now-ex-sheriff's deputy who failed to enter a Parkland, Fla., high school during the February mass shooting that left 17 dead. There have been calls to revoke his retirement benefits, but the governor says state law restricts him from doing that.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, naming what he believes are the causes of school shootings like the one in his state last week that killed 10 people. The Republican went on to largely argue against stricter gun control laws.
San Francisco just elected its first black female mayor at a time when the number of big-city black mayors has been on the decline. Their leadership style has changed, too.
A few months ago, Kourtnaye Sturgeon helped save someone’s life. She was driving in downtown Indianapolis when she saw people gathered around a car on the side of the road. Sturgeon pulled over, and a man told her there was nothing she could do: Two men had overdosed on opioids and appeared to be dead.
After losing a legal fight over the way Texas handles online voter registration, state lawyers are arguing that fixes proposed by a civil rights group go too far and should be rejected.
Gov. Eric Greitens' office illegally hired two private attorneys to help fend off impeachment, Attorney General Josh Hawley said Friday in a letter to the state auditor.
Colorado is considering allowing political candidates to accept cryptocurrency for campaign contributions.
Blue state lawmakers are waging a preemptive strike against an anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision that could decimate the power of public-sector unions across the nation.
Mayor de Blasio will tell the NYPD to stop arresting people for public pot smoking -- and launch a new group to officially prepare the city for the outright legalization of marijuana in New York.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton Saturday vetoed a Republican-backed plan to increase penalties for protesters who clog up traffic.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demanded swift justice for the gunman who killed 10 at Santa Fe High School while vowing Sunday to come up with ways to prevent more school massacres.
The House voted against the legislation on Friday. But some of the ideas behind it have seen success in the states.
"Pay for success" is changing the way cities confront the problem.
Other legislators aren't so sure.
Gun violence costs lives -- and money. The financial burden can overwhelm governments, especially when they're small or struggling.
Becky Schmidt, manager of Charm City Puppies, which could be shut down under a new Maryland law -- the second of its kind in the country -- that bans retail pet stores from selling puppies and kittens. Animal rights advocates argue it will reduce the demand for "puppy mills."
Potentially active volcanoes in the United States, including Hawaii's Kilauea, which recently erupted.
Mississippi is about to find out. Decades of neglect have closed hundreds of bridges, putting the state at the forefront of America's infrastructure fight.
When a neighborhood isn't rich -- and isn't poor -- government tends to forget about it.
The American Dream Miami retail theme park won final zoning approval Thursday from Miami-Dade County, clearing a significant hurdle toward building a $4 billion mega-mall on undeveloped land off the Florida Turnpike with enough space for an indoor ski slope and a submarine lake.
“Dear the most highly respected judge and court, I’m writing this because I love my mom. My mom is very important to me. I have no idea what to do without her. Even though my mom’s afraid, she’s not giving up.”
Two state lawmakers got into a fist fight in a downtown Baton Rouge bar just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, both admitted hours later in their respective chambers, apologizing to other members, their constituents and each other.
Amid Hawaii's First Major Volcanic Eruption in Decades, Experts Look to Mount St. Helens for Lessons
The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's big island erupted Thursday, sending a plume of ash 30,000 feet into the sky after fissures had spewed molten rock into residential neighborhoods for the previous two weeks, destroying dozens of structures and forcing thousands to evacuate.
San Francisco's mayor wants to create a special medical team -- the first of its kind in the nation -- to spread out onto the city's streets and give homeless people a drug that one expert calls "blindingly effective" at abruptly stopping heroin cravings.
California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia has been removed from all of her committee posts after facing accusations of sexual harassment, with the investigation into her conduct coming to a close Thursday.
The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote Friday on a new, five-year farm bill that will cost almost $900 billion. It sits on a familiar divide, with most Republicans voting for it and virtually all Democrats voting against it, and prospects in the Senate murky.
Cody Wisniewski made good on his threat Tuesday night to sue Boulder and its council, mounting a legal challenge to the city's ban on assault weapons fewer than 24 hours after it was voted into law.
Sign held by a teacher protesting at the North Carolina state Capitol on Wednesday. Thousands were in attendance, leading dozens of districts to close schools for the day.
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