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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaking about Phil Murphy, the Democratic contender for the state's governor's race. Current polls show Murphy up by about 15 points over his Republican challenger, even as he has embraced increasingly left ideas. The election is next Tuesday.
Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a bill into law that will expand the reach of a highly trained group of volunteer cybersecurity experts from the public and private sectors.
In the early months of 2016, as U.S. overdose deaths were on track to break records and the number of Texas infants born addicted to opioid painkillers climbed steadily higher, Gov. Greg Abbott was courting a massive pharmaceutical company, McKesson, with a multimillion-dollar offer.
Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, a Republican, is facing another lawsuit over the state’s process for removing voters from registration lists.
On Nov. 7, the people of Maine will vote on whether or not to expand Medicaid through a citizen's initiative question, giving voters a final say by possibly circumventing the governor's prior refusals after legislators failed to override his previous vetoes.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has implemented a requirement that people who apply for assistance from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program pass a drug screening.
Together, in one of the first statewide races of the Trump era, Democrat Phil Murphy and Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno are demolishing the conventional wisdom that centrists win in New Jersey.
Incumbent mayors are at risk of losing in several big cities. Meanwhile, some voters might elect their first woman or black woman to lead city hall.
Numbers of workers who work from home vary across regions. See data showing the prevalence of telecommuting by metro area.
Amount the city of Boston will start paying landlords who rent to homeless people using housing vouchers. The money is meant to cover unpaid back rent or property damages caused by the tenant. Similar programs exist in almost 10 other jurisdictions across the country.
Former President Bill Clinton, talking about Phil Murphy, the Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor and referencing GOP Gov. Chris Christie's "Bridgegate" scandal in which several of the governor's allies created a traffic jam as a means of political retribution.
One of President Trump’s most fervent fans hopped onto his Harley in South Carolina and roared all the way to Virginia Beach, where he led a “Bikers for Trump” rally Sunday for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie.
Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced Thursday he will leave office as a result of his indictment on federal obstruction of justice charges.
Ms. Stella’s, a home-cooking restaurant in Milledgeville, Ga., serves roast beef, grilled pork chops, chicken wings and oxtails with 24 sides from which to choose. Last spring, owners Jeri and Lucious Trawick opened a second restaurant in Eatonton, about 20 miles away, and Jeri decided to leave her full-time job to help shepherd the expansion.
All Kansas House Democrats will receive sexual harassment prevention training in December after multiple women stepped forward with allegations of sexual harassment at the Kansas Capitol and the wider world of Kansas politics.
Arguments erupted on the House floor Thursday between Republican and Democratic leaders over the prospect of a vote this week on a GOP-only bill to renew funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Prospective presidential candidates tend to launch PACs to pump money into campaigns of people who might prove helpful. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is starting a nonprofit with other mayors, union leaders and business executives to fund what they call innovation investments around the country.
On Sunday the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority cancelled the highly disputed $300 million contract awarded to Whitefish Energy, a tiny American company tasked with restoring power to the still storm-ravaged island. PREPA spokesperson Carlos Monroig confirmed the news to NPR.
A flood warning was in effect Sunday evening for the tri-state area as a storm system brought heavy, pounding rain and dangerous wind, CBS New York reports.
New reports shed some light on the places and the people the government has trouble counting.
Governors' seats that political experts predict are vulnerable to being flipped next year, which is almost twice as many as predicted in January. Of those, 12 are held by Republicans and five by Democrats.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, on the plastic warehouse fire that burned for at least five days and closed nearby schools last week. State officials are still working to figure out which potentially toxic materials were stored in there, but dozens of people have already visited the local ER for fire-related symptoms.
The Philadelphia Board of Pensions and Retirement voted Thursday to withdraw its investments in the for-profit prison industry, which has been dogged for years by health and safety problems.
President Donald Trump's voter fraud commission, already facing several lawsuits, will now be investigated by a government watchdog.
In picking Maj. Susan Ballard as the island's new police chief, the Honolulu Police Commission chose someone who's been a commander within the Honolulu Police Department but -- by several accounts including her own -- was outside of the inner circle that flanked now-indicted and retired Chief Louis Kealoha.
Ending months of frustration and false starts, the House of Representatives Thursday gave its strong endorsement to a two-year, $41 billion state budget that closes a yawning deficit, rejects large scale tax increases and seeks to bolster the state's future financial stability.
President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a pledge to take on the deadly opioid epidemic, directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday to declare a limited 90-day public health emergency in response to the crisis.
The Virginia governor's race has turned into a culture war -- and President Donald Trump has jumped right in.
Vicente Rodriguez runs an after-school program in Loma Linda, Calif., but dreams of becoming an English and ethnic studies teacher in a state desperate to fill teaching jobs.
New York has 280 miles of “sidewalk sheds.”
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