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Like Katrina and Sandy, Harvey shook Houstonians' from their complacency.
The tunnels he wants to build under Los Angeles would profoundly affect the life of the city.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is suing Uber, after the ride-hailing company waited more than a year to reveal that it had been hacked, resulting in the breach of personal data for customers and drivers.
The Charlotte Regional Partnership said Tuesday that it now doesn't expect to hear until early next year whether it made the shortlist for Amazon's second headquarters.
Former NAACP chief Ben Jealous has selected longtime Democratic Party insider Susan W. Turnbull as his running mate in the crowded primary contest for governor.
North Korea's launch today of what could be its longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile test yet seems to add further justification to state planning for what officials are still calling the "extremely unlikely" possibility of a strike on Hawaii.
Warning to congressional Republicans who want to kill the federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit, a Reagan-era program to revitalize historic buildings, as a way to save $1 billion annually: It doesn’t die easily.
The Archdiocese of Washington is suing Metro after the transit agency rejected its Christmas season ads that urge worshippers to “Find the Perfect Gift.”
The Senate Republican plan to use tax legislation to repeal the federal requirement that Americans have health coverage threatens to derail insurance markets in conservative, rural swaths of the country, according to a Los Angeles Times data analysis.
The new Buy Clean California Act is the world’s first legislative effort to address supply chain carbon emissions.
As rural hospitals struggle to keep their doors open, the high cost of ob-gyn wards makes them one of the first things cut.
New research explores practical applications for intelligent automation and blockchain.
Depending on the outcome of a potential recount, Atlanta's election on Tuesday could either counter or worsen the nationwide decline in the number of big-city black mayors.
No one wants to pay for natural disasters. But even small-government proponents may have to accept increased federal involvement.
Whether you're talking about Detroit or Youngstown, Ohio, so-called legacy cities have similar problems with no simple solution.
Wisconsin's Supreme Court justices refused to tighten the rules about when they should recuse themselves from cases. It has sparked a battle between old judges and new ones.
Studies suggest they're "too complex" for kids to understand, spurring some police departments to simplify the words they use when arresting them.
"People are probably tired of their city being in the headlines," says former Snellville Mayor Kelly Kautz.
Strapped for cash, Pennsylvania may finally grant the governor a victory and enact a severance tax. But it's an uphill battle.
Distilleries? Homeless shelters? Museums? There are lots of creative ideas for repurposing old lockups. But finding one that's good for the economy -- and wins approval -- isn't easy.
Suburbs first gained popularity for being everything a big city wasn't. Now they want to be just like downtown.
States where it's illegal to leave your pet in a car in extreme heat or cold weather.
Less than 10 percent of U.S. households are car-free.
Thinking of wearing a Trump mask to a political demonstration?
Alejandra Borunda, whose kids are covered under the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which Congress let expire nearly two months ago. If federal lawmakers don't renew the program's funding, some states -- including Colorado, where Borunda lives -- are warning parents that their kids' insurance coverage may end Jan. 31.
As D.C. is demonstrating, it's a way to use evidence and rigorous research to produce better outcomes.
Indiana House Democrats narrowly selected a socially conservative representative from rural Indiana to be their new minority leader during a private meeting Monday.
In a long anticipated development, Lt. Gov. Brian Calley announced Tuesday he wants to be governor of Michigan.
Saying Cardinal Innovations "acted unlawfully" in giving its ousted CEO $1.7 million in severance, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday took over the Charlotte-based agency.
Earlier this month, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions changed his account of what he knew about the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russia, he stressed that he had “always told the truth” as he remembered it at the time.
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