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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.
The federal government will spend a record $4.6 billion this year to fight the nation’s deepening opioid crisis, which killed 42,000 Americans in 2016.
Tears rolled down Emma Gonzalez's face as she stood in silence.
A proposed ban on assault weapons was introduced in the Delaware General Assembly on Thursday, the latest and likely most contested bill among a slew of gun control measures being debated by state lawmakers this year.
Maryland gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous has received an endorsement from Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), adding to the list of nationally-known progressives who are backing his bid for governor.
The three largest groups representing human services agencies and nonprofits say the phrase hurts their work -- and society at large.
The transit agency has long been divided along regional lines. But it looks like local leaders may be able to put aside those differences to provide the troubled agency with long-term funding.
Zell Miller, a former two-term governor and U.S. senator who gave birth to Georgia's HOPE scholarship, has died at the age of 86, his family said Friday in a statement.
According to Vogue anyway.
Chief information officers and chief financial officers haven’t always gotten along. That’s not true anymore.
Should you really need a license to teach hair braiding?
Most of the problems are rooted in false or missing data.
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