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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.
Gov. John Kasich says a bipartisan health-care plan he's been working on with Democratic Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is nearly finished.
At Southwark Elementary, there is one counselor for 800 students, many of whom have behavioral and emotional challenges.
Some doctors in California felt uncomfortable last year when a new law began allowing terminally ill patients to request lethal medicines, saying their careers had been dedicated to saving lives, not ending them.
A state program that helps criminal offenders obtain clemencies is gaining some major reinforcements.
Gov. Eric Greitens called off an execution on Tuesday so the state could make sure it sentenced a guilty man to death.
A SEPTA Norristown High Speed Line train ran into an unoccupied train early Tuesday inside the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby, injuring 42 people, officials said.
Areas in the United States suffering from a shortage of primary-care providers. Most of them are rural.
States and localities say direct loans aren't as much of a hassle as issuing bonds. That may be true, but they're also riskier.
Chris Lehane, speaking on behalf of Airbnb to the U.S. Conference of Mayors last year. Most recently, the housing rental company has reached agreements with South Dakota to collect hotel taxes in the state.
The El Paso City Council narrowly voted against creating a municipal identification card program amid concerns that the measure would lead to the border city being perceived as the kind of "sanctuary" jurisdiction that has been the target of President Donald Trump and Texas' Republican leaders.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller — the cowboy-hat wearing Republican known for wading deep into partisan and cultural divides — is furious with the Six Flags amusement park chain, calling its decision to take down the Confederate flag and four others that had flown over the park part of a “militant, anarchist movement sweeping our country, destroying and attempting to sanitize our nation’s history.”
Fifteen years into a nationwide push to provide every student with an equal education, Minnesota schools have grown more segregated and the state's nation-leading academic achievement gap refuses to close.
Justice Department lawyers say Miami-Dade had nothing to fear over losing federal transportation funds if the county didn't back President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown earlier this year, writing in a court filing that only security and crime-fighting federal aid would be withheld from "sanctuary" communities.
Demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, interrupted and blasted City Council members during their first meeting since violent clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters.
The parent of Jewel-Osco was sued Friday for allegedly applying Cook County's new sweetened-beverage tax to purchases made with federal food stamps, transactions that are supposed to be exempt from the penny-per-ounce tax.
Airbnb travelers in South Dakota will pay a little more starting Sept. 1.
The recruiting tactic may grow as baby boomers leave more job vacancies.
Fine for parents in Michigan who listen to their children's landline phone call. If a state representative gets his way, parents will soon be exempt from the eavesdropping law, which could also land them in prison for up to two years.
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