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Six weeks after helping Democrats revamp California's landmark climate change policy and facing a torrent of anger from conservative critics, the Republican leader of the state Assembly agreed Thursday to step down and allow a rural Northern California lawmaker to lead the GOP's fractured caucus.
Five governors will testify in front of the Senate Health Committee next month on ways to fix ObamaCare.
Following a series of political misfires during the past month, Gov. Bruce Rauner on Thursday tried to reset his administration by parting ways with his recently rebuilt press staff after a weeklong flap over a school funding cartoon some lawmakers deemed racist.
Legislation to prevent law enforcement officers from retiring, collecting a pension and then returning to active police duty to earn a second pension was signed into law Thursday by Gov. Bruce Rauner at the Naperville Municipal Center.
A rally that some are calling a gathering of right-wing supporters this weekend in San Francisco could have attendees watching their every step.
While Democratic AGs go on the offensive, their Republican counterparts are urging Trump to get even tougher against Obama-era policies.
Income loss that the poorest counties in the country will likely incur this century because of climate change.
Vincent Perez, the county commissioner of El Paso, Texas, which is home to dozens of colonias -- makeshift subdivisions of predominantly poor people that lack basic services like safe drinking water. In the latest state budget, Texas cut funding for an ombudsman program that helped colonia residents figure out what public programs are available to them.
New York City prides itself on being the epicenter of progressive politics -- and yet, it has one of the nation's worst gender gaps in city politics.
California recently outlawed the practice, but it's unlikely to change immigration officers' behavior. The legislation highlights the tactic's murky legality.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
New York City is taking an innovative approach that relies on street-level "violence interrupters" to curb crimes involving weapons. Chicago's been doing it for years.
The accelerating move away from punitive detention recognizes a critical factor: Adolescent brains are different.
Corn-producing states love the federal mandate to add it to motor fuels, but it no longer makes sense — if it ever did.
Some states are taking the war on opioids into veterinarians’ offices, aiming to prevent people who are addicted to opioids from using their pets to procure drugs for their own use.
It's official: State Sen. Van Taylor, R-Plano, is running for Congress.
In the 41 years since Florida reinstated the death penalty, a white person convicted of killing a black person has never been put to death.
The sight of white supremacists marching through the heart of the University of Virginia, carrying flaming Tiki torches and shouting “Jews will not replace us!” — followed by the killing of a counterprotester at a rally in downtown Charlottesville the next day — may put the brakes on state efforts to strengthen campus free speech protections.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a high school's refusal to allow a football coach to kneel and pray at midfield after every game, wearing school attire and in view of students and spectators.
A month after a bruising political battle to extend California's cap-and-trade program, the state received a big vote of confidence in the policy's future.
A federal judge Wednesday tossed out the Texas voter ID law, saying changes recently adopted by the Legislature fell short of fixing a law that was drafted to intentionally discriminate against minority voters.
Racism was behind an Arizona ban on ethnic studies that shuttered a popular Mexican-American Studies program, a federal judge said Tuesday.
Joe Arpaio, the former anti-immigration sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., in an interview for a 2014 documentary. In 2017, he was convicted of criminal contempt of court. President Trump, however, has hinted that he will pardon Arpaio, who faces six months of jail time.
Vermonters who voted in November but left blank the line for president. Hillary Clinton ultimately won 57 percent of the state's vote, but 6 percent of it went to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders as a write-in candidate.
The city of Los Angeles sought Tuesday to join a legal battle against President Trump's Department of Justice over conditions requiring police to cooperate with immigration enforcement officials in order to qualify for anti-crime funding.
The dream of eliminating the influence of large, private donors from the election equation is pretty much dead. Now campaign finance reformers are shifting their focus.
The state's budget cuts target "colonias," makeshift subdivisions of mostly poor people outside city limits.
The two Seattle police officers who fatally shot Che Taylor last year have filed a defamation lawsuit against City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, alleging she falsely declared they had committed a "brutal murder" before they were cleared of wrongdoing by an inquest jury.
More than 60 former state attorney generals are urging President Trump to follow the example of an Alabama official who once famously told the Ku Klux Klan to "kiss my ass."
The Republican-controlled Senate completed the override of six of Gov. John Kasich's budget vetoes on Tuesday, the first successful overrides of an Ohio governor's veto in nine years.
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