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Congress averted a government shutdown Thursday by approving a short-term spending bill, but an $81 billion disaster aid bill died in the Senate after winning passage in the House.
Colorado lawmakers on Thursday approved emergency funds to keep alive a health insurance program for children and pregnant women, amid concerns that a short-term extension of the program's funding OK'd by Congress won't arrive soon enough to help.
According to a new report, 2017 will have continued a steady long-term downward trend in crime rates.
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Local governments. But they’re not just doing it for the money.
After years of fighting the post-9/11 law that added security standards for ID cards, states seem to be on board. It's going to cost them, though.
In local government, success is defined by what you leave behind.
Photos and musings from our photographer David Kidd.
It makes rational sense, but people find many reasons to be wary -- even high school football rivalries.
It’s already hard to count certain residents. But this time around, it could be particularly difficult.
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As rents and demand for renting increase, millions of Americans are being evicted -- sometimes with only a few days' notice.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who in 2015 was the first state AG to sue a prescription drug company over their role in the opioid epidemic. Since then, more than 100 cities, counties and states have filed similar lawsuits.
Last time, until recently, that life expectancy in the U.S. dropped two years in a row. It declined in 2015 and again in 2016, partially fueled by a 21 percent increase in fatal drug overdoses.
Some want to take on the president's politics. Others simply hope to give back to the communities that have become home.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued the Trump administration Tuesday for suspending regulations meant to curb emissions of the greenhouse gas methane, the latest front in the state's battle with Washington over climate-change rules for the oil and natural gas industries.
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is mandating training to combat sexual harassment for 30,000 city employees to be completed by February 2018.
Jack Latvala, a powerful member of the Florida Senate and Republican candidate for governor, resigned Wednesday after two reports said he sexually harassed and made demeaning and vulgar comments to female staffers and lobbyists.
The city of Memphis sold two public parks containing Confederate monuments to a nonprofit Wednesday in a massive, months-in-the-planning operation to take the statues down overnight.
Idaho's population increased enough in the past year to earn us the title of nation's fastest-growing state, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The first 50-50 power balance in 17 years for Virginia's House of Delegates rested on a single vote, from a recount, for less than 24 hours. Now it could literally come down to drawing straws.
Mary Norwood has conceded the Atlanta mayor's race to fellow City Councilwoman Keisha Lance Bottoms.
With prospects for reauthorizing the Children's Health Insurance Program this year rapidly dimming, 25 states are expected to exhaust their federal funding to provide coverage for 1.9 million low-income children by Jan. 31, researchers at Georgetown University reported Wednesday.
New York City's CTO has a vision for how technology can make our lives better.
Coastal cities have disproportionately thrived thanks to economic centralization. Yes, the marketplace is to blame, but so is federal policy.
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