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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.
As part of its tough stance against illegal immigration, Texas has been one of the few states requiring state agencies to use a federal system known as E-Verify to check job applicants.
The Bevin administration asked constitutional officers and cabinet secretaries Friday to cut spending in most state agencies by 17.4 percent this fiscal year to address an expected $200 million budget shortfall.
The Donald Trump administration's rules requiring cities to cooperate with immigration agents in order to get a public safety grant could lead to other strings on federal money tied to administration priorities, a city attorney argued Monday in the court fight between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Continuing its role as a leading counter-force to Trump administration policies, California filed a lawsuit Monday challenging as unconstitutional the president's plan to rescind a program that protects young immigrants from deportation, with officials warning the state will be hardest hit by the change.
It's one of the ways states are trying to address growing concerns about the cybersecurity of voting.
A massive telecom project intended to connect emergency workers and law enforcement across every state and territory on a unified broadband system is coming to Alaska.
Homes and businesses -- most of which are in Florida -- that lost power due to Hurricane Irma, as of Monday afternoon. "We’ve never had that many outages, and I don’t think any utility in the country ever has," said the chief executive of Florida's biggest electric company. Utilities said it could be weeks before power is fully restored.
George Brown, a commercial real estate broker who owns an oceanfront RV park in Port Aransas, Texas, that was largely destroyed by Hurricane Harvey. Nevertheless, he vows to rebuild there.
Cities still haven't recovered from the recession, and a new report concludes that they might instead be sliding into another fiscal contraction.
When Houston-based epidemiologist Winifred Hamilton spent a few days in the field last week collecting samples of the abundant floodwater Tropical Storm Harvey had left in its wake, she was able to practice the health safety advice she had urged her fellow Houstonians to follow.
More than half the states with sales taxes are using a temporary amnesty program to corral scofflaw online businesses into their tax systems, just in time to reap sales taxes from the upcoming holiday shopping season.
Efforts by Republican lawmakers to scale back Medicaid enrollment could undercut an aspect of the program that has widespread bipartisan appeal — covering more children, research published Tuesday in the journal Health Affairs suggests.
New York will extend its open enrollment period for ObamaCare plans, citing concerns about an earlier deadline set by the federal government.
In a calamitous northward sweep from the Everglades to the Florida Panhandle, a weakening but still monstrously powerful Hurricane Irma battered a string of cities on the state's palm-fringed west coast Sunday before advancing toward Georgia and the Carolinas.
History suggests that social services will be in high demand for months. Are caseworkers in Texas and Florida prepared?
Marta Di Franco, a tourist from Argentina who had her vacation ended short by the threat of Hurricane Irma. She waited at a bus stop last week for two hours for a county vehicle to pick her up and take her to a shelter.
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