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The widow of state Rep. Dan Johnson, who committed suicide Wednesday night, said she will seek to replace him in the legislature.
As a new mother, D.C. Council member Brianne K. Nadeau (D-Ward 1) often pauses during long workdays to go into her office, shut the door and pump milk for her 3-month-old daughter.
Attorneys general from "across the country" will sue the Federal Communications Commission in an attempt to reverse today's repeal of net neutrality rules.
Although it seemed like it at times, Obamacare wasn't the only health policy up for debate this year.
New studies shed light on the job security of certain government jobs in an increasingly digital age.
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Its new ordinance exemplifies a shift in how cities across the country are trying to target panhandlers.
Ed Gillespie, in his first interview since losing the Virginia governor’s race last month. The Republican was a guest on “The Axe Files” podcast with Democratic strategist David Axelrod.
Money tourists spent in Wyoming while visiting the state this summer to see the total solar eclipse. That translates to $3.7 million in state and local government tax revenue.
As North Carolina lawmakers debate whether to change how judges are picked, all the Democrats on a key committee protested Wednesday by walking out of a meeting they said was unfair and not very transparent.
Lawmakers from Texas and Florida are exceedingly anxious that hurricane recovery aid will be sidelined in next week’s government funding scramble amid internal disputes over who should get how much cash.
The blaze that swept through the hills of Los Angeles' Bel-Air section last week, destroying six homes and damaging a dozen others, was sparked by a cooking fire at a homeless encampment in a nearby ravine, city officials said Tuesday.
'Fair chance' employment policies aren't just good for the formerly incarcerated. They're good for everybody.
Global warming made Hurricane Harvey's 51 inches of rain three times more likely to occur when comparing today's climate to that of the 1880s, scientists say.
A Kentucky lawmaker who on Tuesday denied accusations that he molested a 17-year-old girl in 2012 died Wednesday night of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Bullitt County coroner.
Amid uncertainty about federal tax reform, states are exercising caution with their fiscal 2018 budgets.
Governments have been slow to adopt management practices that are proven to dramatically improve performance. There's no excuse.
The Des Moines school district has embraced the continuous improvement approach. It's making a lot of progress toward eliminating wasteful practices and transforming performance.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has threatened former Atlanta mayoral candidate Mary Norwood with legal action over statements about voter impersonation that she made earlier this year.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton announced Wednesday that his lieutenant governor, Tina Smith, will replace Al Franken after the Democratic senator formally resigns.
Former GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is the father of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. In the race for one of Alabama's seats in the U.S. Senate, Doug Jones received 50 percent of the vote to Roy Moore's 48.4 percent. Recounts in the state are automatically called when a candidate wins by less than 0.5 percent.
Birthdate listed on President Trump's absentee ballot for the New York City mayor's race in November. His actual birthday is June 14, 1946.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper rallied a bipartisan band of governors again on Tuesday in a letter to Congress urging the renewal of a children's health insurance program for low-income families.
Maryland will track allegations of sexual harassment made against state lawmakers, and politicians who violate the state's code of conduct can be expelled from the legislature.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a measure Monday clearing the way for mining copper and gold in Wisconsin, handing a win to business groups over the proposal's environmental opponents.
Thirteen states have filed suit against Massachusetts in response to a law mandating certain humane practices in food production.
The votes cast by First Lady Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump in last month's New York mayoral election were tossed out after the president's wife and eldest daughter made mistakes in their absentee ballots, NBC News reported Tuesday.
The marquee outside the Heart of Fire Church says the Sunday sermon is "Satan accuses/God says you're not guilty."
The synthetic painkiller fentanyl has been the driving force behind the nation’s opioid epidemic, killing tens of thousands of Americans last year in overdoses. Now two states want to use the drug’s powerful properties for a new purpose: to execute prisoners on death row.
Secretary of State John Merrill said it's too soon to know whether the margin of victory by Doug Jones in Alabama's special election on Tuesday will trigger the state's automatic recount law.
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