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A federal review of the Milwaukee Police Department has been halted with the retooling of a program once focused on improving trust between police and communities.
Police made more than 80 arrests downtown Sunday night after violence erupted following hours of peaceful protesting.
Built directly on the Atlantic Ocean in Summerland Key, Bob Chapek's home stood in the crosshairs when Hurricane Irma slammed into the islands.
California will not legalize safe injection sites for drug users this year after a state bill failed to pass the Senate on the last day of the legislative session Friday.
It turns out that the city of College Park did not have enough votes after all to grant voting rights to noncitizens, officials said Saturday.
Average premiums for individually purchased health insurance will grow around 15 percent next year, largely because of marketplace nervousness over whether President Donald Trump will block federal subsidies to insurers, Congress' nonpartisan fiscal analyst projected Thursday.
While Texas and Florida recover from hurricanes, other communities are looking at what they can do to prepare for flooding and other disasters. We talked to an expert in disaster planning to get her advice.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced Friday she won't run for re-election in 2018.
Former St. Louis police Officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty Friday of murdering a man while on duty.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, referring to Equifax, which she plans to sue after the credit reporting company potentially compromised personal information of 143 million American.
Drop in Louisiana's median income from 2015 to 2016. The only other states where it declined were North Dakota and Wyoming.
Although many governors oppose the latest repeal bill, it has some of what they've asked for.
Robert Suttle clearly remembers telling his boyfriend that he was HIV positive the night they met. But after they split, three quarrel-filled months later, that became a point of contention: His “ex” pressed charges against him.
With the U.S. no longer is part of the Paris climate accords, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett believes it is time for cities to take the matter of reducing carbon emissions into their own hands.
Gov. Rick Scott is again weathering criticism over global warming in the wake of Hurricane Irma, and won't say if he believes man-made climate change is real.
The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that Americans either carry health insurance or pay a fine remains the law’s most unpopular feature. Nevertheless, a bipartisan group of governors is insisting that the so-called individual mandate remain in place — at least for now.
Louisiana's Bill Cassidy and the three Republican U.S. Senate colleagues backing his Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan framed the measure they unveiled Wednesday as Republican's "last shot" at scrapping the sweeping 2010 Democratic health insurance law.
After 81 years, Gen. Robert E. Lee's patrol along Turtle Creek has ended.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says she plans to sue Equifax after a data breach at the company affected up to nearly 3 million state residents.
A Maryland city voted Tuesday night to enfranchise noncitizens, the latest in a growing effort to expand immigrant voting rights.
In transforming its public-education structure and bureaucracy, Indianapolis is showing that there is more than one route to excellence.
It's no longer illegal in Minnesota to disturb a public meeting, the state Supreme Court has ruled, reversing the conviction of a Little Falls woman who was charged with disorderly conduct for protesting before the City Council.
Missouri state Rep. Gina Mitten, criticizing the state house speaker for urging a lawmaker who was allegedly caught cheating on his wife to resign but not doing the same for a lawmaker who said the people who vandalized a Confederate memorial should be "hung from a tall tree with a long rope."
Uninsured rate in Texas last year, which was the highest in the country and double the national average. The high number of people without health insurance can be blamed on the fact that the state did not expand Medicaid, has a large immigrant population and has a lower-than-average rate of employers who offer health coverage.
A new report documents what environmental advocates say has been happening for decades: The federal government fails to protect Americans from potentially cancer-causing chemicals. And they have little hope that will change anytime soon.
The companies that top the rankings have something in common: workplace practices that confirm employees are valued.
They bring people together. We need more of them.
Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell took the oath of office to become mayor Wednesday, as Ed Murray, disgraced by allegations of child sexual abuse, ended his time at City Hall.
To see what free speech looks like in 2017 at the birthplace of the famed movement, consider the elaborate preparations underway for a talk Thursday by a conservative writer.
Hawaii said Tuesday that it aims to be the first state to have marijuana sales handled without cash, saying it wanted to avoid robberies and other crimes targeting dispensaries.
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