News
Attorney General Janet Mills said Tuesday she has found a funding source for expanding Medicaid in Maine, which could snuff some arguments against expansion but is sure to cause ongoing controversy about her authority to spend the money.
The city plans to file a lawsuit against California challenging the legality of the state's so-called sanctuary law.
Rebecca Dallet trounced Michael Screnock on Tuesday for a seat on the state Supreme Court, shrinking the court's conservative majority and giving Democrats a jolt of energy heading into the fall election.
The recent protests in conservative states point to a potentially counterintuitive reality.
Ride-hailing services are crying foul. But cities and states say they’re merely taxing services.
Federal prosecutors on Monday arrested and charged State Rep. Jack Williams and former Alabama Republican Party Chairman Martin Connors in a public corruption investigation stemming from a 2016 insurance coverage scheme.
A coast-to-coast coalition of cities and states filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to block the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
People who work for the Trump administration and Congress members aren't the only government employees being asked to sign legally questionable contracts to keep secrets.
Song by Twisted Sister that thousands of Kentucky teachers sang during their protest on Monday at the state Capitol. They are rallying against a pension bill that would let lawmakers change new teachers' pension plans.
Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill that makes her state the 50th and final one to enact a consumer data breach notification law.
In its latest legal salvo against California, the Department of Justice announced Monday it is filing suit against what it branded an "extreme" state law that tries to give California power to veto sales of federal land to private interests.
Thousands of Oklahoma teachers went on strike Monday to demand higher pay and more education funding, digging in for a prolonged walkout as discontent spreads among public educators in conservative states.
The state Supreme Court left intact a voter-approved California law Monday that requires police to collect DNA samples from anyone arrested on suspicion of committing a felony, sidestepping questions about what it means for the tens of thousands of people who are arrested but never charged or convicted.
Over the decades, this quiet coastal hamlet has earned a reputation as one of the most liberal places in the nation. Arcata was the first U.S. city to ban the sale of genetically modified foods, the first to elect a majority Green Party city council and one of the first to tacitly allow marijuana farming before pot was legal.
From the start, the 28-year-old woman sensed doubt.
The Trump administration openly threatened one of the cornerstones of California's environmental protections Monday, saying that it may revoke the state's ability under the Clean Air Act to impose stricter standards than the federal government sets for vehicle emissions.
The Supreme Court on Monday shielded a police officer from being sued for shooting an Arizona woman in her front yard, once again making it harder to bring legal action against officers who use excessive force, even against an innocent person.
Times that Sacramento police officers shot Stephon Clark, an unarmed 22-year-old black man, in the back, according to an autopsy. The shooting, which happened in the backyard of Clark's grandmother's, has prompted protests for days.
Colorado Democratic state Sen. Andy Kerr, on Republican election mailers sent by Cambridge Analytica-backed campaigns that he says targeted Democrats and expressed views favorable of abortion rights. The political consulting firm potentially violated privacy rules to create "psychographic profiles" of voters.
When Tory Gunsolley learned that his agency was about to receive $40 million in federal recovery funds in the wake of Hurricane Ike, he was thrilled.
Calling it a "milestone day for mental health in Iowa," Gov. Kim Reynolds signed two significant pieces of legislation in to law Thursday that she said will bolster Iowa's commitment to treating children and adults facing mental health challenges with dignity and compassion.
Gov. Doug Ducey said Thursday that teachers aren’t going to get the 20 percent pay hike they are demanding – not now and not in the foreseeable future.
Oklahoma and Kentucky teachers are walking off the job Monday and holding rallies in their state capitols to pressure lawmakers.
President Trump was quick to criticize Gov. Jerry Brown's decision to pardon five former convicts facing deportation.
A woman who was hit by a Sacramento County Sheriff's Department vehicle while protesting the police killing of Stephon Clark was resting at home Sunday after suffering multiple cuts and bruises in the incident.
President Trump on Easter Sunday appeared to rule out efforts to revive deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children, tweeting "NO MORE DACA DEAL!"
When Amazon agreed last year to begin collecting sales tax in New Mexico, state officials celebrated what they said could be tens of millions of dollars in annual tax revenue.
Utah state Sen. Lincoln Fillmore, who is behind the nation's first "free-range parenting" law, which redefines negligence so that a parent can't be charged for letting their children do things like go to the store alone.
States that have outlawed gay conversion therapy, which intends to change a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The most recent to ban the practice is Washington state.
Most Read
