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Rather than punishing an entire industry after a fatality, Arizona's governor took a sensible, measured approach.
The Trump administration rejected Idaho's attempt to offer health insurance that doesn't follow Obamacare rules. Iowa thinks it has a new strategy that will win federal approval.
Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill into law Tuesday that will impose work requirements on certain adults receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Uber plans to end all autonomous-car testing in California for the foreseeable future, according to a letter from the state Department of Motor Vehicles to the company.
Looks like the fox was guarding the henhouse.
At least 12 states have responded with a wave of fury and legal action this week after the Trump administration announced it would add a question to the 2020 census asking respondents whether they are U.S. citizens.
Blue states are suing to block the question, but they aren't the only areas particularly vulnerable to losing money and political power if the Trump administration's plan lowers immigrants' participation.
In the wake of shootings around the country, Gov. Scott Walker on Monday signed a $100 million plan that would tighten school security but not put new limits on guns.
Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a measure Sunday requiring doctors to report abortion complications, even if they don't work in an abortion clinic.
An officer in the police video that captured Stephon Clark's death. The sound then cuts off. Sacramento police fatally shot Clark -- who was unarmed and suspected of vandalism -- in his grandmother's backyard.
For the first time in a decade, Florida juvenile detention and probation officers will see a bump in their salaries -- an increase in the state budget that is part of a series of juvenile justice reforms passed by the Legislature this month.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Tuesday his office would provide independent oversight of the investigation into the death of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by two Sacramento police officers earlier this month in his grandparents' backyard.
More than 20 months after the fatal police shooting of a black man outside a Baton Rouge mini-mart touched off protests nationwide over police treatment of African Americans, the Louisiana attorney general said Tuesday that he would not charge two white officers in the death.
Retail price of bulletproof backpacks, which a Louisiana Senate committee voted this week to allow in public schools.
The state has the lowest gun death rate in the country. Congress is considering a bill that would incentivize other states to copy its firearm policies.
Circuit Judge Rex Burlison rejected on Monday a bid by Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens for a trial by judge, not a jury, on Greitens' felony invasion of privacy case.
The Orange County Sheriff's Department, whose leadership opposes the new California sanctuary law that limits cooperation with federal immigration officials, announced Monday that it is now providing public information on when inmates are released from custody.
President Donald Trump has another ally in its lawsuit against California -- South Carolina.
The state of California sued the Trump administration Monday night, arguing that the decision to add a question about citizenship in the 2020 census violates the U.S. Constitution.
Actress Cynthia Nixon on Monday blasted Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo as "Andrew the Bully," a "wannabe Republican" and a member of the "old boys club" ruling New York politics.
The fatal collision last weekend of a self-driving car owned by Uber and a woman crossing a Tempe, Ariz., street raised enough questions that the ride-hailing giant days later suspended such on-road testing of the vehicles.
Election ballots in Virginia will include clear instructions beginning in November about how voters should mark their choices, according to new guidelines approved by the State Board of Elections Friday.
Gov. Butch Otter assembled a large group of backers as he signed the school threats bill into law Friday.
A new study is the latest to show that landlords often discriminate against minorities and people who use rental vouchers.
Last time the Community Development Block Grant program received a significant increase in funding until last week. Despite President Trump's proposal to eliminate the program, the federal spending bill gives it $300 million more.
A poorly received joke from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a majority-black church in Harlem this weekend.
The expectation for government HR managers to do more with less isn’t a temporary adjustment. It is the new normal.
About 17,461 Detroit households are at risk for water shutoffs next month when the city's water department resumes its controversial program, the Free Press has learned.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, signed into law a bill which will limit the number of youth who can be tried as adults in criminal courts.
From California to Vermont, mobile methadone vans have served people with opioid addiction in rural towns and underserved inner-city neighborhoods for nearly three decades.
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