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Few places need the federal government right now more than Texas does, as it begins to recover from Hurricane Harvey. Yet there are few states where the federal government is viewed with more resentment, suspicion and scorn.
Gov. Greg Abbott estimated Sunday that Texas will ultimately need between $150 billion and $180 billion in federal aid to rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
Breann Johnson stopped using heroin on Mother’s Day this year, determined to end her 13-year addiction. Days later, she began three months of residential treatment in Riverside, Calif. — all paid for by California’s Medicaid program.
The California Supreme Court decided Thursday that data from millions of vehicle license plate images collected by the Los Angeles police and sheriff's departments are not confidential investigative records that can be kept from public disclosure.
After a monthslong legal fight, Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala on Friday walked back her ban on pursuing the death penalty, saying a panel of seven assistant state attorneys will review all future first-degree murder cases and seek capital punishment when appropriate.
Chris Verzwyvelt, the first inmate at a Louisiana prison to receive a Vivitrol shot, which blocks the effects of and cravings for opioids. The treatment drug is now being used in state prisons and local jails throughout the country.
Low-income Americans still connect to the internet at far lower rates than wealthier households.
Reduction in federal funding for navigators, trained representatives who help people understand health insurance options and purchase a plan through the Affordable Care Act. The Trump administration announced the cut on Thursday.
The woman's body, slight and petite, was revealed as floodwaters receded, washed up against the green metal fence surrounding her apartment complex.
A judge on Wednesday ruled that a 2016 law barring towns, cities and counties from requiring employers to provide additional employee benefits is unconstitutional.
President Donald Trump has insisted for months that “Obamacare is already dead.”
A federal judge temporarily on Thursday blocked a Texas law that would limit second-trimester abortions in a ruling that came one day before the regulation was to take effect.
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.
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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.
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