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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.
The thin, long piece of paper slides slowly out the voting machine, the internal mechanism guiding it making a sound similar to a copying machine.
While Houston and part of Texas is overflowing with water and flooding, hundreds of thousands of acres in western Montana are engulfed by wildfires.
Terminally ill people do not have a state constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, New York's highest court ruled Thursday.
Price of lunch for students in New York City public schools. Starting this year, every student will qualify for free meals in an attempt to reduce the stigma associated with poverty.
A golden sunrise ushered in a picturesque bright day Thursday, making conditions ideal for a dip in the ocean. But the sands of South Beach were eerily bare.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner announced plans Thursday to borrow $6 billion to work on paying down Illinois' massive backlog of unpaid bills, but he warned that he'll try to trim state spending in order to pay for the new debt costs.
The Vermont Department of Taxes has a bit of an awkward question for you.
Letters are being sent to more than 17,000 former Missouri state employees asking if they want to cash in early on their pensions.
In the 37 years that Dr. Ernest Marshall has been performing abortions in Kentucky, he has seen more than a dozen clinics close in the state. He is now facing off against the governor in a legal fight that will decide whether Kentucky becomes the first state in the nation without an abortion clinic.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced a formal review Thursday of Obama-era guidelines that spurred universities to more aggressively investigate campus sexual assaults -- a policy she criticized as unfair and coercive.
Thursday marked the first day of school for New York City's 1.1 million public school students -- and the start of free preschool and free lunch for any pupil who wants, no questions asked.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has a problem — and not much time to solve it.
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