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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.
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.
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