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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.
The firm used improperly obtained Facebook data to help the GOP take back the Colorado Senate. Most of the lawmakers who might have benefited are remaining silent as Democrats call on the state to investigate.
A district judge sentenced a Tarrant County woman to five years in prison Wednesday for illegally voting in the 2016 presidential election.
State colleges and universities are relying more on tuition dollars to fund their operations even as state funding rises and colleges come under pressure to keep tuition low.
President Donald Trump’s administration must defend a lawsuit targeting his plan to end a program offering protection from deportation for hundreds of thousands of children of undocumented immigrants.
Kentucky's largest public school districts are closed due to widespread absences Friday among teachers angered by the Legislature's passage of a pension overhaul.
California signed up an estimated 450,000 people under Medicaid expansion who may not have been eligible for coverage, according to a report by the U.S. Health and Human Services’ chief watchdog.
Last fall Giovanni Inton's second-grade son came home from school and told his dad he was hungry.
When he looks back at what the Austin bomber "did to our community, he was a domestic terrorist for what he did to us," Interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said at a panel discussion Thursday that focused on how police, the media and the community responded to the Austin bombings.
Utah has adopted a "free-range parenting" law, the first state in the country to formalize the hands-off child-rearing trend.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, during a hearing this week, casting doubt on the feasibility of setting a legal standard for partisan gerrymandering -- in other words, determining how much politics would be too much in a process that is itself inherently political.
Rate at which researchers say opioid-related overdose deaths are undercounted in America.
Oklahoma is now the second state to reverse course on tax cuts in favor of boosting teacher pay. Will Arizona be next?
Utah and Virginia are both closer than ever to making more low-income people eligible for free or low-cost health care. What made them change their minds?
Under a new leaked version of the rule reportedly being considered, use of government benefits -- with few exceptions -- could hurt an immigrant's chances of becoming a permanent legal resident.
Photos and musings from our photographer David Kidd.
Baltimore's 911 system and a range of city services in Atlanta were hijacked in the past week.
Many advocates say the deadly bridge collapse in Florida and driverless car incident in Arizona show how poorly transportation networks handle pedestrians.
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