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Not only is President Donald Trump wrong to create a false moral equivalency between white supremacists and counter-protestors, he is diminishing the presidency itself, said Ohio Gov. John Kasich on a TV talk show today.
Estimated economic benefit of the total solar eclipse in just one town, Hopkinsville, Ky., which is the epicenter of the global event and is expecting as many as 200,000 visitors this weekend.
Health policy experts say other conservative states often follow Missouri's lead on abortion measures. This year, the state passed several never-before-seen regulations.
If President Donald Trump were to follow through on his threats to cut federal cost-sharing subsidies, health insurance premiums for silver plans would soar by an average of 20 percent next year and the federal deficit would rise by $194 billion over the next decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.
King County Elections certified the results of Seattle's mayoral primary Tuesday, stamping as official an outcome made clear last week -- Jenny Durkan and Cary Moon will advance to the Nov. 7 general election.
Federal judges invalidated two Texas congressional districts Tuesday, ruling that they must be fixed by either the Legislature or a federal court.
Provo Mayor John Curtis has won the Republican primary to replace former Rep. Jason Chaffetz in Utah's 3rd District.
onfederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their concrete bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials.
It appeared late Tuesday that Texas' legislative special session would end a day earlier than expected with only about half of Gov. Greg Abbott's priorities having passed both the House and the Senate and made it to the governor's desk.
For the revolution to succeed, smart regulators and thoughtful entrepreneurs will need to work together.
Texas state Rep. Chris Turner, a Democrat, speaking in opposition of a bill that will require women to pay an extra health insurance premium for nonemergency abortions. GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed the legislation on Tuesday.
Number of hate groups in California, which is the most of any state. Trailing right behind is Florida (with 63) and Texas (with 55).
Skyrocketing price tags for new drugs to treat rare diseases have stoked outrage nationwide. But hundreds of old, commonly used drugs cost the Medicaid program billions of extra dollars in 2016 vs. 2015, a Kaiser Health News data analysis shows. Eighty of the drugs — some generic and some still carrying brand names — proved more than two decades old.
The head of the city's tourism and convention agency said hotels have lost business as a result of a travel advisory issued by the national NAACP last month and that her industry is "being used as a weapon" in the political arena.
Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed a bill that will require Texas women to pay an extra health insurance premium for non-emergency abortions, one of three abortion-related items the governor placed on lawmakers' agendas for the special session.
Arkansas has signaled that it intends to invest in Israel and, through the enactment of two laws during this year's regular session, is standing up to a movement that seeks to boycott, divest from and punish the Middle Eastern country, Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., said Monday.
Delaware's economic development efforts are about to undergo a major transformation.
Twice as many Republicans can't run again for state legislative office. That could help Democrats, but how much?
Six states now prohibit their employees from taking nonessential work trips to states with laws that, in their view, discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Hundreds of Indianapolis municipal employees are about to become eligible for raises.
Gov. Paul LePage used the lure of higher wage increases for members of Maine's largest state workers union to win a key concession in his campaign to weaken the clout of organized labor.
California joined San Francisco on Monday in taking legal action challenging a Trump administration threat to withhold federal public safety grants from sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate in deportations.
The thousands of demonstrators have left Charlottesville, Va. The bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, around which the protests were focused, remained standing. A memorial service was being planned for the woman who was killed, and many of the 19 people injured remained in the hospital.
The state will refund close to $21 million to Michigan residents after reviewing cases in which an Unemployment Insurance Agency computer system falsely accused tens of thousands of people of committing benefits fraud, the agency said Friday after completing a review of affected cases.
A second Miami judge has ruled that the Florida Legislature’s decision to broaden the protection of the long controversial “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law is unconstitutional.
When taxi driver Habtamu Tarekegn decided to “go green” by buying an electric car, he was excited about the potential for economic independence at a time when D.C. cabbies are struggling to compete with Uber.
There are still some major unanswered questions about Trump's declaration.
De'Andre Harris, on being chased and beat with wooden poles by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. Harris, who was there to counterprotest the neo-Nazi groups, said a police officer finally came to his aid after five or six minutes. The city's police is under fire for
States where there's not a single Democrat in any statewide elected executive position. The same is true for Republicans in nine states.
Insurers are grappling with a serious predicament in finalizing how much their health plans will cost, even after a three-week extension from the Trump administration.
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