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The farm bill expected to be unveiled this week offers Republicans a rare opportunity to reshape one of the largest federal anti-poverty programs.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, backing President Trump's proposal to execute drug dealers as a way of combating the opioid crisis. Fentanyl is a particularly cheap and deadly synthetic opioid.
More lower-income households have access to cars now than they did before the Great Recession. That’s good news for their access to jobs, but it may cause cities to rethink their assumptions about transportation.
Incentives Maryland is offering Amazon if the company builds its second headquarters in the state. That's more than any other jurisdiction is publicly offering and $3.5 billion more than the governor originally advertised.
Miami is taking the trend of teacher housing one step further than other places. But do teachers want to live where they work -- even if it means cheaper rent?
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday it would stay away for now from lingering litigation over a now-closed investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign, leaving a Brown County judge to sort out the legal fight.
A new Ohio law expands civil protection orders to dating partners, bringing Ohio in line with every other state except Georgia.
Maryland lawmakers approved $6.5 billion in tax incentives for Amazon on Wednesday, pushing through the largest economic development package in state history on the hope the internet retail giant will build a new headquarters here.
Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced he is running for governor Thursday, attempting a restoration after eight years out of office that saw his DFL successor move the state in a more progressive direction at odds with Pawlenty's tenure.
Echoing a recent call by President Donald Trump, both U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton and Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said Wednesday that they were open to the idea of executing drug dealers as a method of combating the opioid crisis.
As thousands of teachers converged for another day of protest at the state Capitol on Thursday, Ginger Henley stood along Lincoln Boulevard, eliciting honks from passing motorists who obliged with her banner that read "Honk for funding Oklahoma education."
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.
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