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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.
Hundreds of homeless people living on the street will find shelter in three large industrial tents with beds, showers, restrooms and hand-washing stations by the end of the year under a plan announced Wednesday by San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer.
The Democratic legislator who posted on Facebook that she hoped President Donald Trump would be assassinated was formally reprimanded Wednesday by a vote of her Senate colleagues.
A new chapter is beginning for the state's largest public school system.
Stranded without power in the wake of Hurricane Irma, thousands of South Florida seniors have found themselves trapped -- in healthcare facilities, affordable housing apartments and planned retirement communities -- without access to elevators, air conditioning, telephones and even medical devices.
In the end, it was the two-year accumulation of events that fell like an avalanche on Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts.
Obamacare's fate remains unknown, but at least one thing is certain: The law has led to a record number of people having health insurance.
In a mild upset, New Hampshire House Democrats took back a seat from Republicans following a special election Tuesday.
Oklahoma teacher Jacob Rosecrants become the third special election Democrat to flip a seat previously held by a Republican.
Portion of men's drop in the labor force that a new study suggests can be blamed on the opioid epidemic.
Facebook commenter on a photo of Gainesville, Fla., police officers preparing for Hurricane Irma. During the storm, the department posted several photos and selfies of officers that went viral, seemingly because of their attractiveness. The department took the commenter's suggestion and said it will do a calendar and donate the proceeds to Irma relief efforts.
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Two months after the campaign managers for Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney helped launch an effort to help campaigns prevent future cyber attacks, four secretaries of state have signed on to work on their project.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio easily defeated a field of longshot Democratic primary opponents Tuesday night, setting up a general election race against Republican Nicole Malliotakis.
The U.S. Department of Justice will not bring charges against Baltimore police officers in connection with the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray from injuries sustained in police custody in 2015, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court blocked two lower court rulings late Tuesday that had required Texas to redraw certain congressional and state House districts after the lower courts ruled the district lines unconstitutional.
State and federal environmental regulators issued a blanket waiver on Monday for Florida electricity companies to violate clean air and water standards without penalty for the next two weeks.
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