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An attorney challenging North Dakota's voter ID law welcomed a federal judge's ruling Wednesday, April 4, that expands Native Americans' options at the polls but eliminates voter affidavits.
A proposal to ban bump stocks in Tennessee failed in both the state House and Senate on Tuesday.
As the chants of thousands of education supporters echoed through the halls outside his office, Senate Majority Floor Leader Greg Treat said Thursday that the Oklahoma Senate will not drastically change education spending, casting uncertainty over the Legislature's ability to end a days-long teacher strike.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, talking about Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican.
Daily fine that citizens of Deerfield, Ill., can incur if they possess an assault weapon or high-capacity magazines after June 13. The Chicago suburb outlawed both this week.
Under the Trump administration, and most Republican White Houses, enforcement of the 1968 anti-discrimination law has weakened. Housing advocates say the constantly changing federal approach has held back progress.
China is one of our largest trading partners. U.S. exports to the country totaled $130 billion last year.
At a time when the aid-in-dying movement is suffering elsewhere, Hawaii Gov. David Ige signed a bill on Thursday giving terminally ill residents the option.
Her sentencing made headlines across the country this week: A woman, recently released from prison in Texas and still on felony probation, is set to head back to prison for another five years after she unknowingly broke the law by voting in the 2016 election.
For months now, the three Democrats running for governor have crisscrossed Massachusetts, arguing that voters should fire Republican Governor Charlie Baker.
Starting this fall, all new homes built in Houston's floodplains must be elevated higher off the ground after a contentious debate and narrow vote by City Council on Wednesday to adopt the Bayou City's first major regulatory response to the widespread flooding Hurricane Harvey unleashed last August.
Critics are welcoming the demise of a controversial measure that would have allowed Tennessee school systems to arm some willing, trained staff and teachers after the bill was voted down Tuesday in a House panel.
Long-feuding state Senate Democrats have brokered a framework deal to reunite, which Democrats claim will bolster the party's prospects for taking control from Republicans of the 63-member chamber.
A hundred years ago, the Spanish flu killed tens of millions. As governments prepare for the next pandemic, there's much to learn from the responses to that outbreak.
The Trump administration announced a hastily assembled plan Wednesday to deploy National Guard troops along the southwestern border, hoping to make good on a promise the president made a day earlier that caught many in the military by surprise.
Many of them are implementing or seriously considering savings plans for private-sector workers. At stake are both the states' and their residents' fiscal well-being.
Gov. Jerry Brown has been mostly silent about the March 18 shooting death of Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man killed by Sacramento police that has renewed a national conversation about police misconduct and excessive use of force.
Owners of assault weapons living in the northern Chicago suburb of Deerfield have until June 13 to remove the firearms from within village limits or face daily fines after a ban was approved Monday night.
Costs are just one factor policymakers need to consider in transitioning to a system in which government provides health insurance for everyone.
Gov. Kim Reynolds signed legislation into law Monday that will provide a health benefit plan option -- one not subject to federal regulation or state oversight -- for farmers, small businesses and other Iowans who no longer can afford independent insurance coverage.
About 11.8 million consumers nationwide enrolled in 2018 Obamacare exchange plans, a 3 percent drop from last year when 12.2 million consumers signed up, according to a final government tally released on Tuesday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Albuquerque, N.M., embarked on a novel campaign to reduce panhandling. Has it worked?
We're in a new era of digital extortion. We need to do a lot more to block and mitigate attacks like the one that crippled Atlanta.
Some cities want to make campaign donors identify themselves. But lawmakers and lawsuits are getting in their way.
With both kinds of traumatic events on the rise, school counselors can't keep up with the demand for mental health services.
Question repeatedly asked by Chicago police officers, according to a woman reporting that she had just been sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend. Under a new Illinois law, police officers in the state must report every allegation of rape and must undergo training that emphasizes the need for sensitivity in rape cases.
States that ban public employees' health insurance from covering abortion services. On Tuesday, Wisconsin became the latest to pass such a law.
From the moment they are arrested, people with an addiction to heroin and prescription painkillers and those who are taking medications to beat their addictions face the prospect of painful opioid withdrawal.
A federal judge has sided with a civil rights group that accused Texas officials of violating U.S. law by failing to automatically register voters who go online to obtain or renew a driver's license.
As he seeks the Democratic nomination for Ohio governor, Richard Cordray can tout a record of achievement stretching back to the early 1990s.
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