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Arizona's historic #RedForEd teacher walkout will stretch to a sixth school day, as Arizona Educators United organizers urged teachers to return to the Capitol Thursday amid unresolved budget discussions.
Texas Attorney General in a news release about his lawsuit against the Trump administration to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects unauthorized immigrants who came to this country as children.
Garcetti, who won reelection as mayor of Los Angeles last year, has made no secret of his presidential ambitions. In an interview, he suggested a mayor would be more pragmatic and "decent" than President Trump.
The percentage of dockless shared bikes on the street, as compared to traditional station-based shared bikes. The introduction of dockless bikes into several cities last year more than doubled the number of shared bikes on the street, from 42,000 in 2016 to 100,000 in 2017.
In an attempt to lower health-care costs, Massachusetts is seeking to exclude certain drugs from its Medicaid program. It's a bold step, experts say, that will not only invite imitation but also lawsuits.
In races for governor around the country, the Democrats' preferred candidates are having to fend off attacks from progressive insurgents.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed two bills supporting immigrants living in Oregon at the annual May Day rally Tuesday.
The city emerged from state oversight Monday in a historic milestone that ends the last vestige of Detroit’s bankruptcy and marks the first time in four decades that the city has full control of government operations.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed a $28.9 billion state budget into law.
Nashvillians resoundingly defeated a controversial plan that would have raised four taxes to fund a transit system anchored by light trail, voting against the historic referendum by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.
The Trump administration on Tuesday exempted most of southeast Wisconsin from the latest federal limits on lung-damaging smog pollution, delivering a political victory to Gov. Scott Walker as he makes a new Foxconn Technology Group factory the centerpiece of his re-election campaign.
Leading a seven-state coalition, Texas will sue the federal government to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects unauthorized immigrants who came to the country as children, Attorney General Ken Paxton's office announced Tuesday.
Abdul Khadir Muhammad, a representative for Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, at an event organized to defend D.C. councilmember Trayon White. White has been under fire for the last month over anti-Semitic comments he made on his Facebook page, promulgating conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the weather. Muhammad's comments resulted in the resignation of a mayoral appointee named Joshua Lopez, who organized the event where Muhammad spoke. Lopez held the speakerphone as Muhammad called councilwoman Elissa Silverman a "fake jew." He says he did not ask Muhammad to leave because he wanted to avoid a physical altercation.
The median home price in previously redlined neighborhoods as of 2017. This is two-and-one-half times less than the median home price in the neighborhoods favored by this 1930s federal lending policy.
In their first year, dockless bike-share services helped double the number of shared bikes on the street. But those bikes are barely used, compared to station-based cycles.
Republicans can take some comfort that their state legislative dominance is unlikely to evaporate in a single election cycle.
The ransom hackers' demand is typically much smaller than what it costs governments to respond.
Federal efforts to reduce wasteful spending haven't achieved much. It's an opportunity for states to innovate.
Less than a week after a conservative think tank sued Austin over the city's paid sick leave ordinance, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has thrown the state's support behind the suit, calling the ordinance "unlawful."
Add Minnesota to the growing list of states that will no longer tolerate pet owners trying to pass off their furry or feathered friends as service animals when they have never received any such training
Missouri is among the 20 worst states for drug overdose deaths, but it was the only state left without a statewide prescription drug monitoring program.
The thousands of educators convened at the state Capitol on Monday for the third day of the #RedForEd walkout had a message for lawmakers: They're digging in.
A special Missouri House panel shot back at Gov. Eric Greitens on Monday, saying it still believes a woman he had an affair with is a credible witness.
In a ruling that could change the workplace status of people across the state, the California Supreme Court made it harder Monday for employers to classify their workers as independent contractors.
A tweet by Scott Dworkin, the co-founder of the Democratic Coalition, regarding conservatives upset by comedian Michelle Wolf's performance at the White House Correspondent's Dinner.
In Arizona, the gap between teachers' wages and the wages of their college-educated private-sector counterparts. This is the largest pay gap in any state.
Negative partisanship has reached new depths, with candidates increasingly willing to insult one another directly.
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The New Hampshire House approved a bill to repeal the state’s death penalty Thursday, 223-116, sending the measure to the governor despite his vow to veto it.
Pennsylvania, a state of 12.7 million, continues to have a chronically low annual reporting rate of hate crimes to the FBI.
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