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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.
Government reform advocate Mike McCabe on Tuesday joined an increasingly crowded Democratic field to challenge GOP Gov. Scott Walker next year.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette officially joined the Republican race for Michigan governor Tuesday night, promising that if elected he would cut state income taxes, push Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and bring the state more and better-paying jobs.
Gov. Cuomo signed legislation on Monday granting unlimited sick time to any government employee in New York who became ill from working at the World Trade Center rescue and recovery effort.
Fueling concerns about the impartiality and seriousness of President Donald Trump's voter fraud commission, members heard testimony Tuesday from a gun rights advocate who suggested using the background-check system for gun purchasers to determine the eligibility of Americans to vote.
For five months, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray rejected calls for his resignation amid allegations he sexually abused teens decades before entering politics.
It's hard to fix a problem you can't see. So Maryland made its lack of healthy food options very visible.
The nation's median household income rose 2.4 percent last year, with significant increases in 30 states.
Cliff Hill, a competitive knife thrower who teaches knife-throwing classes and owns a knife-sharpening store in Texas, where it just became legal to carry just about any kind of knife just about any kind of place.
Municipal finance officers who said they are better able to meet the financial needs of their communities -- down from at least 80 percent in each of the last three years.
Past rulings have "made politicians think there are no boundaries around what they can do." A Wisconsin case may lead to some limits.
Federal inmate 40892-424 has his voice back.
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is prepared to spend millions of dollars more to make sure backers of Cook County's controversial soda pop tax don't suffer defeat in next year's elections, a spokesman for the former New York mayor said Monday.
As a mighty hurricane, Irma inspired fear. As a tropical storm, it is spreading soggy distress _ and continuing peril _ across a growing swath of the American Southeast.
Mexico has yanked its offer to send aid to Texas, saying it has its own natural disasters to take care of.
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