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A major highway expansion is now on hold because Wisconsin Republicans couldn’t agree on how to pay for it.
Cities that celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day yesterday. Berkeley, Calif., was the first to make the switch -- in 1992 -- but most of the rest of the cities adopted the new holiday only in the past three years.
Message on a digital highway sign in Missouri. It's one of the state's many signs meant to grab drivers' attention (but only for a second) to promote good driving practices.
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine will not appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a recent court ruling overturning a portion of the city’s law restricting who can carry a concealed handgun in the District.
The wildfires that tore through over a million acres of Montana this year damaged homes, cloaked communities in smoke, and burned a hole in the state budget.
President Trump's immigration chief ripped into Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday for signing legislation that creates a statewide sanctuary policy, saying the federal government will be forced to "conduct at-large arrests in local neighborhoods and at work sites" of undocumented immigrants.
The Trump administration revealed a sweeping set of hardline immigration demands Sunday night -- including the building of a wall on the southern border and major changes to the legal immigration system -- as tradeoffs for legislation to protect the so-called Dreamers, a move that could kill prospects for a deal to protect roughly 700,000 young people now facing possible deportation.
Several out-of-control wildfires were burning in Napa and Sonoma counties early Monday morning, prompting mass evacuations of many neighborhoods and at least one Wine Country resort as firefighters sought to halt the advance of the flames amid high winds.
The city of Charlottesville is cooking up a plan to block torch-wielding hate mongers from returning after a third and unannounced visit by Richard Spencer’s followers.
New Jersey on Thursday accused Insys Therapeutics Inc of engaging in a fraudulent scheme to boost sales of a fentanyl-based cancer pain drug, as Massachusetts announced a $500,000 settlement with the drugmaker to resolve similar allegations.
Vice President Mike Pence will head to Virginia this week to campaign for Republican gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie.
Local governments and private contractors can't find enough people and equipment to haul away debris.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach urged President Donald Trump to pursue changes to federal voting law to promote proof-of-citizenship requirements, according to documents unsealed Thursday by a federal judge.
Settlement the pharmaceutical company that makes EpiPen has agreed to pay the federal government, 49 states and the District of Columbia. The company was accused of underpaying rebates to Medicaid and Medicare.
Tony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU of Missouri, which is deciding whether to appeal a recent ruling that Springfield's ordinance allowing men, but not women, to show their nipples in public does not violate the Equal Protection Clause, which requires men and women to be treated as equals.
What started as a fringe movement has gained steam in recent years.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office filed suit Thursday against Navient, the largest U.S. student-loan servicer, alleging widespread abuses and deceptive acts involving its administration of student loans.
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton will soon leave his post as the leader of the nation's fifth-largest city to run for Congress.
Gov. Pete Ricketts on Wednesday urged the Trump administration to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with Japan following news that U.S. frozen beef exports to Japan have declined by 26 percent.
A judge in Charlottesville ruled Wednesday that a state law protecting war memorials could apply retroactively to the city's statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, according to the Richmond Times Dispatch.
State lawmakers, public defenders, corrections officials, community activists and police came together with Governor Gina Raimondo on Thursday to hail a series of new laws as the most historic changes to the criminal justice system in Rhode Island to arise in decades.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he will push federal prosecutors to put a more intense focus on prosecuting street criminals, saying the Justice Department needs to focus on rolling back a recent increase in the violent crime rate.
Russian hackers obtained classified information about National Security Agency cybersecurity programs after breaching a personal computer used by an agency contractor in 2015, according to a person familiar with the matter.
It's a mistake to view it as just a back-office bureaucracy. As Seattle is demonstrating, reforming it can help improve lives.
It's hard to set aside the daily demands of government to learn about leadership, but it's well worth it.
There are many ways to structure a public-private partnership. Asking the right questions is crucial.
In a sharp rebuke to President Donald Trump's expanded deportation orders, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed landmark "sanctuary state" legislation Thursday, vastly limiting who state and local law enforcement agencies can hold, question and transfer at the request of federal immigration authorities.
Saying he simply doesn't have the "passion" to go to Washington, Republican Gov. Bill Haslam announced Thursday he will not run for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Sen. Bob Corker.
Early estimate of Hurricane Maria's damage to Puerto Rico. The island was already bankrupt before the storm hit, with $72 billion in debt.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, during a hearing for a case about whether police were right to arrest 21 partygoers for trespassing.
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