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By law, Chris Christie can't seek a third consecutive term as governor of New Jersey.
Two Baltimore police officers have accepted "minor disciplinary action" for their involvement in the 2015 arrest of Freddie Gray rather than argue their cases before departmental trial boards, as they had been scheduled to do, a police union attorney confirmed Tuesday.
An Oklahoma County judge on Friday threw out a law restricting medication abortions for the second time, again finding it unconstitutional.
The Cook County pop tax is headed for repeal after commissioners overwhelmingly signaled their intent to do away with it, marking a big win for soda companies and store owners after both sides spent millions of dollars to sway public opinion on the issue.
Thousands of firefighters fought the aggressive march of wind-whipped wildfires that raged out of control Tuesday in Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Yuba counties -- and the death toll rose to 17 as authorities began the grim task of excavating for bodies amid up to 3,000 ruined homes and businesses.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dropped one of two challenges it was considering to President Donald Trump’s travel ban policy, declaring moot a lawsuit over Trump’s attempt to block issuance of visas to citizens of six majority-Muslim countries.
It's rare to see a film featuring homeless people as main characters. "The Florida Project" focuses on the ones that few people notice.
Chris Thomas, who was visiting California's Napa Valley when they were ordered to leave due to wildfires that have killed at least 10 people and destroyed at least 1,500 homes and businesses. Wind gusts up to 70 mph pushed walls of flames nearly 100 feet high.
Time that parents can be sentenced to jail if their child violates any city law, including bullying, in North Tonawanda, N.Y. The law took effect Oct. 1.
Imagine a day when you can renew your car registration, pay your taxes and apply for Medicaid, all by clicking on to one state web portal.
Proposed rules for single-drug executions in California were rejected Monday by a state legal agency, whose decision may soon be nullified by an initiative approved by state voters last November.
Two months ago, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn criticized a draft of a federal review of the department as riddled with errors.
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is done exploring.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to block President Donald Trump's recent revision to the Affordable Care Act that allows insurers and employers to opt out of covering contraceptives in their health insurance plans.
Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie slashed at each other for an hour in southwestern Virginia Monday night, looking to gain an advantage in the final weeks of the closely watched campaign to be Virginia’s next governor.
The Trump administration's move to start dismantling the Clean Power Plan rule intended to curb carbon emissions that contribute to global warming will not be a quick process.
A swarm of fires supercharged by powerful winds ripped through Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties Monday, killing at least 10 people, injuring dozens of others, destroying more than 1,500 homes and businesses, and turning prominent wineries to ash.
The rising number of placements into state care is only partially to blame.
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.
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