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Tulsa, Okla., a conservative oil town, serves as an example of how places can overcome politics to prevent damage and save lives.
Gov. Larry Hogan signed an executive order Monday that requires all firms with state contracts to promise they will not boycott Israel.
The MTA has taken a major step in retiring the MetroCard, beginning a six-year process to replace it with a tap-based system that will allow commuters to use a variety of payment methods, including smartphones, digital wallets or proprietary cards to pay for their rides.
With future federal funding uncertain, states may freeze enrollment in a program that helps at-risk parents care for their newborns.
In response to a letter about sexual harassment that has been reverberating through the Capitol, California Senate Leader Kevin de León -- also a candidate for U.S. Senate -- announced Monday that his house will hire an independent firm to investigate allegations of sexual harassment, rather than handling such complaints internally.
Republican governors of Indiana, Wisconsin and Missouri, in a new ad that thanks Mike Madigan, the Democratic speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, for raising taxes and blocking his GOP governor's agenda. The result, the governors in the video claim, is more jobs being created in Illinois' neighboring states.
Proposals submitted to Amazon from cities, counties and states that want the online retailer to build its second U.S. headquarters in their region. Some offered the company billions of dollars worth of tax incentives.
A ballot measure would allow judges to strip pensions from corrupt public servants. But ethics watchdogs say the measure is little more than window dressing.
Four mayors reflect on their attempts to better meet the infrastructure needs of low-income residents.
The 5-year-old girl was found dead in the bathtub with shallow water framing her cherubic face and open eyes.
A Kent man who earlier this year withdrew a lawsuit that helped expose a wider alleged child-sex-abuse scandal that drove Ed Murray out of public office has refiled a legal case against Seattle's former mayor.
David Guice, a top North Carolina prisons leader who oversaw an extraordinarily deadly time for the state's correctional officers, is stepping down from his post.
Here in the heart of one of Colorado’s most expensive cities, Isabel Sanchez bought a mobile home seven years ago for just $6,000. Her four-bedroom bungalow now sits on a lot she rents for $355 a month.
Kentucky's registered sex offenders have the constitutional right to use Facebook, Twitter and other online social media, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Gov. Bruce Rauner kicked off his re-election bid Monday with a campaign video featuring the Republican politician clad in a helmet and black leather motorcycle gear, riding his Harley-Davidson alone past a sometimes-desolate landscape of urban, rural and suburban Illinois.
Thousands of Iowans face paying significantly more for their individual health insurance premiums -- or going without coverage -- after a state effort to win federal waivers of some Affordable Care Act provisions to prop up Iowa's collapsing marketplace ended Monday.
Billing Illinois and Chicago as an "extraordinary opportunity for Amazon" to locate its second headquarters, state and city political leaders entered the nationwide competition to land the online retail giant's 50,000 jobs by offering $2 billion in incentives while hinting they were willing to dig even deeper, sources familiar with the bid confirmed Monday.
She helped craft Mike Pence’s conservative approach to expanding Medicaid in Indiana. Now, the CMS administrator is one of President Trump's top contenders to replace Tom Price.
Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, in a letter to the director of President Trump's voter fraud commission, of which he is a member. After learning from a reporter that one of the commission's staffers was arrested for child pornography charges, Dunlap criticized the commission's lack of transparency with its members.
Money North Carolina has set aside to pay TV and movie producers to film in the state next year. It's triple the 2015 amount but more than half as much as it was paying before that when shows like "Homeland" shot there.
The Maine member of President Trump's voter fraud commission has written a pointed letter to its executive director, demanding he be given documents and kept informed about the group's activities and charging that there is "a vacuum of information."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that he's waiting to hear whether President Donald Trump will support a bipartisan health care proposal before bringing the measure up for a vote.
Alex Roth has gotten into the habit of pulling out his cell phone and showing skeptical friends a screen shot of the classes he'll have to take to get his bachelor of science degree from Northern Michigan University.
The latest evolution of bike-share programs is taking its first Colorado foothold in Aurora.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday will make official what had long been expected, formally announcing his plans to seek a second term as the state's chief executive despite turmoil within his own political party.
Medicaid money can now be used in New Hampshire to pay for sex change surgery deemed medically necessary, after a legislative committee voted 6-4 on Tuesday to approve new rules for the health care program that serves low-income households.
A divided federal appeals court delayed final resolution of the case of a 17-year-old pregnant migrant in federal detention who is seeking an abortion, giving the Trump administration until the end of this month to find a private sponsor who can house her and will allow her to obtain the procedure.
Returning to the campaign trail nine months after he left the presidency, Barack Obama laced into Donald Trump's presidency as dismantling the gains of his two terms in office and taking America backward.
Rental vouchers are only helpful if landlords are willing to take them. All too often, they're not. But what if the government made it less risky?
The public approved changes to how future gas tax money can be spent. But it’s largely a symbolic measure unless lawmakers approve a hike in the state’s gas tax.
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