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San Francisco is on track to open its first two safe injection sites this July, a milestone that will likely make the city the first in the country to embrace the controversial model of allowing drug users to shoot up under supervision.
After a four-month standoff, and a brief shutdown on Friday, Congress will provide long-term relief to community health centers and programs that help at-risk parents and low-income families.
Florida's Rick Scott and Wisconsin's Scott Walker say it's about the money. Democrats -- emboldened after a series of wins, including on Tuesday -- say the Republicans are trying to avoid losing more legislative seats.
A new poll shows strong opposition to the new Medicaid policy being pushed by the Trump administration. But it contradicts other recent surveys.
Comprehensive coverage for more than 800,000 low-income people in New York and Minnesota who pay a fraction of the typical cost of a marketplace plan may be in jeopardy after the federal government partially cut funding this year.
Gov. Rick Snyder announced Wednesday that the state will end a four-year experiment with privatizing its prison food service after years of maggots in food, smuggling by kitchen employees, kitchen workers having sex with inmates, inadequate staffing levels and other problems documented by the Free Press in a series of articles.
What Utah spent in 2013 to keep its national parks open during the shutdown. The federal government only reimbursed the state $666,000. The state's Congressmembers introduced legislation in 2015 to get the money back, but it never went anywhere.
Priscilla Wohlstetter, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Over the past year, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has softened the language she uses when speaking about her goals to expand private education options. Instead of the words "school choice," she often uses "innovation" or "blended learning."
Delegating IT to the techies isn't the way for governments to get the most out of today's increasingly powerful technology.
California officials said they will block the federal government from transporting oil using existing or new pipelines, a move that would disrupt President Trump's plan to expand drilling off the state's coast.
Before Brightline comes rolling through Miami-Dade County, Mayor Carlos Gimenez has asked the Florida Department of Transportation to evaluate safety measures in place at the railway crossings along the private passenger line's route.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder is ramping up his efforts to reshape Republican-drawn congressional district maps.
The U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.
Betsy DeVos became famous — and infamous in some quarters — as the leader of an education movement that pushed for public funding for private schools, including religious education.
The office of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Wednesday backed away from comments made by his transportation chief that the state has promised Amazon.com a “blank check” for transportation improvements to lure the company’s second headquarters to Montgomery County.
After much drama leading to this year’s open enrollment for Affordable Care Act coverage — a shorter time frame, a sharply reduced federal budget for marketing and assistance, and confusion resulting from months of repeal-and-replace debate — the final tally paints a mixed picture.
In the immediate aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, there was a fevered pitch to ban bump stocks, the device that allowed the shooter’s semi-automatic rifles to mimic the rapid fire of machine guns.
When Utah shelled out nearly $2 million to keep its national parks open during the federal government’s two-week shutdown in 2013, state leaders thought the federal government would pay them back all the money once it reopened. It didn’t.
A lesser-known provision in the GOP tax overhaul ends the benefits for victims of small-scale disasters.
The roll-out of autonomous vehicles will be gradual, Gov. Rick Snyder said recently. But that doesn’t mean states should wait to address some of the technology’s potential downsides.
Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin, a Democrat, on how the Trump administration has impacted his job.
People in Washington state who aren't registered to vote because of a software glitch at the Department of Licensing. After realizing that, election officials are rushing to send them ballots before the state's Feb. 13 special election.
Democrats flipped a state House seat on Tuesday. Some say Eric Greitens, whose extramarital affair has prompted a criminal investigation, is the reason. But he shows no signs of quitting.
Programs that help the most vulnerable populations -- including food stamps, cash welfare and child care -- are most affected.
For years, a glitch in a Washington Department of Licensing (DOL) system caused thousands of people to be left off the state's voter rolls.
Abortion clinics in Toledo and Cleveland have lost their attempts before the Ohio Supreme Court to challenge state restrictions on abortion.
The Long Island Rail Road should have foreseen the potential for a morning rush-hour crash that was caused by an engineer's undiagnosed sleep apnea and injured more than 100 passengers at Atlantic Terminal in 2017, according to a new federal report.
Sen. Jeff Kruse not only subjected two female senators to unwanted touching, he groped or gave lingering hugs to many other women working at the Oregon Capitol, an independent investigator concluded in a damning report released Tuesday.
Following reports of sexual harassment in the Kansas Capitol, Gov. Jeff Colyer on Monday signed an executive order requiring all executive branch employees to receive sexual harassment training each year.
Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday unveiled his latest effort combatting President Donald Trump's administration.
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