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Tweet from the Colorado Senate Democrats after news broke on Thursday that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions would rescind an Obama-era policy urging federal prosecutors not to prosecute people and businesses that comply with state marijuana laws.
Jeff Sessions' announcement attracted bipartisan criticism. But some legal experts are skeptical of its impact, and several states have vowed to continue their marijuana markets or plans for one.
Services at the Coachella Valley Church begin and end with the Lord’s Prayer. In between, there is the sacrament.
Six U.S. senators have filed a bipartisan bill that would provide grants to states to help them move from paperless voting machines to paper ballots in an effort to make voting systems less vulnerable to hackers.
The winner of the 94th House District race will be chosen at random by drawing names Thursday in Richmond.
A massive winter storm described as a violent "bomb cyclone" continued to move up the East Coast on Thursday, shutting schools, canceling flights, knocking out power and sparking fears of coastal flooding.
The city of Charlottesville, Va., on Tuesday night chose the first African-American woman to serve as its mayor, less than six months after a deadly white nationalist rally in the city made national headlines.
Gov. Paul LePage had a one-sentence response to a 16-year-old who wrote to him worried about the repeal of net neutrality rules: Read a book.
The state's Medicaid program will cover treatment visits for people struggling with obesity in 2019 with the hopes it will improve health outcomes for Delawareans.
President Donald Trump has dissolved a commission intended to investigate voter fraud after a massive data request by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach led to a backlash from state officials across the political spectrum.
Housing experts predict that the tax overhaul will spur home values and property tax revenues to drop, forcing cities to find new ways to raise money -- or to cut spending.
There's a lot at risk when people in government use their private accounts for public business.
Sign illegally posted below an official "Welcome to California" highway sign. It has since been removed. On Jan. 1, a new state law took effect that, among other things, bans jails from detaining undocumented immigrants solely at the request of federal immigration authorities.
There are a lot of things we could be doing to smooth the ups and downs for today's just-in-time workforce.
Coal mine workers who died on the job last year -- up from nine the year before, which was a record low.
More than a dozen cases on partisan and racial gerrymandering are winding their way through the court system. Two cases, in particular, could become two of the most important this decade.
Governor Kate Brown appointed Adrienne Nelson to the Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday, marking the first time an African American has served on the high court in the state's 158-year history.
Companies will have to disclose additional details about their economic development plans and other information in order to receive city incentives in Nashville following action by the Metro Council on Tuesday.
A central Ohio coalition that seeks to reduce the region's high infant-mortality rate has received a grant of about $991,000 to help 50 pregnant women in extremely low-income areas find and pay for housing.
Gale Dunham, a pharmacist in Calistoga, Calif., knows the devastation the opioid epidemic has wrought, and she is glad the anti-overdose drug naloxone is becoming more accessible.
Western states no longer have to worry about losing millions in energy royalties due to the high cost of the new tax package.
"We gotta take [sanctuary cities] to court, and we gotta start charging some of these politicians with crimes," he said.
Known for his incendiary rhetoric, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. took it a step too far over the weekend -- and was briefly banned from Twitter as a result.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is beginning the new year looking to protect pedestrians from potential vehicle attacks in New York City.
K. Jane Williams, deputy administrator for the Federal Transit Administration, in a letter informing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie that the Trump administration would not honor its predecessors' proposal for the federal government to help fund a multi-billion-dollar Amtrak tunnel connecting New Jersey to Penn Station, the busiest transit hub in the U.S.
State lawmakers facing allegations of sexual harassment who have resigned, announced they will resign, been ousted from a leadership position or otherwise punished since October.
A sheriff's deputy was killed and four officers were injured Sunday in suburban Denver when a gunman fired more than 100 rounds in an ambush-style attack.
Ohio’s prison system must produce records about lethal drugs it wants shielded from public view for justices on the state Supreme Court to review privately as part of an open records dispute, the court ruled.
John Delaney is a three-term congressman, stuck low on the seniority totem pole, representing a state packed with other Democrats, deep in a powerless minority.
President Donald Trump dropped his own New Year's ball—in the form of a wrecking ball—with a late Friday afternoon announcement that effectively wipes out plans for perhaps the nation's most crucial infrastructure project.
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