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The Illinois Senate on Sunday adopted a resolution urging law enforcement officials to recognize white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations.
A peer counseling program in Rhode Island that has become a national model for its hospital-bed outreach to drug-overdose survivors is up against a daunting statistic.
Cook County's sweetened beverage tax has landed the state in hot water with the feds, potentially causing roughly $87 million in federal food stamp money to be withheld, Illinois officials said Thursday.
North Carolina’s legislative leaders adopted rules Thursday that they will use when drawing new election district lines, after 28 districts were ruled unconstitutional last year.
The Washington state Supreme Court has upheld Seattle's tax on gun and ammunition sales, according to an opinion issued Thursday morning.
Expressions of grief and solidarity have played out again and again in other American cities struck by tragedy _ impromptu memorials of flowers and cards, prayers for the dead and injured, pledges of peace.
Mayor Jim Gray released a video Sunday further explaining his decision to move two Confederate statues from the lawn of the former Fayette County courthouse on Main Street.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants governments to crack down on speeding, which claims as many traffic deaths as drunk driving. But the hard question is: How?
A code of ethics should be about more than preventing abuses. It should also promote positive contributions.
Tiana Nobile, who initially wasn't allowed to get married because she had her citizenship paperwork, passport and driver’s license but no birth certificate. A Louisiana judge, however, recently struck down a state law requiring birth certificates in order to issue a marriage license.
The hole in the Texas legislature's 2018 budget. It's a lot of money but not an immediate problem. State officials won't have to reckon with the consequences of this shortfall until January 2019.
Delaware voters soon will cast their ballots on new voting machines. But exactly when – and what those machines will look like – remains to be seen.
Like Medicaid programs in many states that want more budgeting certainty or hope to save money, Medi-Cal is shifting many patients with complex conditions into managed care plans.
In a sleek laboratory at Marshall University last month, four high school teachers hunched over a miniature steam-electric boiler, a tabletop replica of the gigantic machinery found in power plants.
Maine is adopting rules about daily fantasy sports games that classify the contests as games of skill and create a tax structure for them.
A federal judge has permanently blocked a Louisiana law that prevented foreign-born U.S. citizens from getting married if they couldn’t produce a birth certificate.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a free speech lawsuit on behalf of one of the nation's most prominent right-wing provocateurs on Wednesday, arguing that Washington, D.C., transit officials violated Milo Yiannopoulos' First Amendment rights by removing advertisements for his new book.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency Thursday (Aug. 10) as a precautionary measure, in the event that the state has to help with flooding in New Orleans over the next few days.
A new learning collaborative is charting efforts in four metros to connect minority communities to entrepreneurial resources.
To preserve their communities' economic and social wellbeing, leaders will need to manage an endless cycle of technological disruption.
President Trump on Thursday, after his opioid commission, led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, urged him to declare the drug crisis a national emergency.
Year that Mike Madigan was elected speaker of the Illinois state House, which makes him the longest to serve that position in U.S. history.
Krish Vignarajah, a former policy director for First Lady Michelle Obama, is the latest Democrat to join Maryland's gubernatorial race.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
EUFAULA, Ala. — Hispanic immigrants here remember June 9, 2011, the day House Bill 56 became law.
Consumers in 16 states can take advantage of sales tax holidays this year—going on frenzied shopping sprees to buy items such as backpacks, computers and school clothes tax-free. But states confronting budget woes and a long list of spending priorities are questioning whether the hyped-up shopping events are worth the cost.
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks on Wednesday dismissed the state of Texas’ lawsuit against Travis County and other defendants over the state's new immigration enforcement law.
State taxpayers would need an estimated 25 years to recoup up to $2.85 billion in proposed cash payments to bring a Taiwanese firm's display screen plant to southeastern Wisconsin, a report released Tuesday found.
The flooding in New Orleans on Saturday happened even though the drainage system was working as it was supposed to and didn't have any unexpected failures, Sewerage & Water Board officials said Monday.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed legislation Wednesday to increase the state's tobacco possession age to 21, a major victory for health advocates and a blow for Big Tobacco.
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