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Gov. Paul LePage has told legislative leaders that he will call an emergency legislative session to amend a food sovereignty bill that the federal government has criticized as unlawful.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. _ the controversial, Stetson-wearing official who rose to national prominence with his no-holds-barred conservative rhetoric _ resigned his office Thursday.
The Houston area continued its slow crawl out of crisis Thursday as swollen waterways began to drain and hundreds of thousand of victims of the flood started looking toward a recovery that could last for months, if not years.
Carlos Sada, Mexico's undersecretary for North American relations, pledging to provide Harvey-hit areas with vehicles, boats and food.
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Kasich and Hickenlooper released a bipartisan set of recommendations on Thursday, but observers predict their influence will only go so far.
The White House said this week that it also aims to cut red tape. Many state and local officials like the idea of less regulations but fear less funding.
There is plenty that local officials can do to avert the kind of deadly violence that erupted in the Virginia city.
It's valuable real estate for development. Working together, local and federal leaders can put it to work.
Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday said his support for former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio shouldn't be read as a slap in the face of the state's Latino voters.
Philadelphia is suing Attorney General Jeff Sessions in federal court over his attempt to withhold grant money from "sanctuary cities."
The Indiana Supreme Court said it cannot force the Indiana Department of Child Services to comply with caseload limits — even though those limits are required by law.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday blasted U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz as "disgraceful" for defending his opposition to a federal relief package Congress passed in 2013 in response to Superstorm Sandy, even as Cruz pushes for federal aid now amid the flooding and wreckage wrought by Hurricane Harvey in Texas.
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to eliminate Columbus Day from the city calendar, siding with activists who view the explorer as a symbol of genocide for native peoples in North America and elsewhere.
Houston is built on what amounts to a massive floodplain, pitted against the tempestuous Gulf of Mexico and routinely hammered by the biggest rainstorms in the nation.
State Rep. Jason Spencer is apologizing for suggesting a former Democratic lawmaker could "go missing in the Okefenokee" for saying it's time to remove Confederate memorials in South Georgia.
Georgia has joined a 23-state coalition in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a New Mexico community's decision to allow a Ten Commandments monument on its city hall lawn.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is working with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on its investigation into Paul Manafort and his financial transactions, according to several people familiar with the matter.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the implementation of the "sanctuary cities" ban Senate Bill 4, a ruling that marks a major victory for opponents of the controversial law that has been a rallying cry for Republican lawmakers across Texas and the nation.
The biggest rainstorm in U.S. mainland history made a second landfall on the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, cutting a devastating path across southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana -- even as the sun began to emerge in Houston and some residents returned to their waterlogged homes.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday the state is accepting Mexico's offer to provide assistance in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, including vehicles, boats and food.
Local governments are no longer as willing to take on the risky business of building a ballpark.
The government is building a nationwide network that helps first responders communicate better during emergencies. To succeed, most states must opt in.
The management paradigm could help rebuild our sense of community.
Budget cuts and political retaliation, they say, are endangering their jobs and their ability to uncover information.
Seattle offers a case study on whether cities can gain population without gaining traffic.
In broken communities, the focus should be on social capital -- not just the economy.
Its big and small, Democratic and Republican cities are going green. Other states want to know how.
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