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As many as 63 million people – nearly a fifth of the country – from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring violations from the Environmental Protection Agency.
A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that Arkansas can block Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, two years after the state ended its contract with the group over videos secretly recorded by an anti-abortion group.
President Donald Trump says the North American Free Trade Agreement has been a disaster. “It’s been very, very bad for our companies and for our workers,” he said at the Wisconsin headquarters of an automotive manufacturer this spring.
As part of a new initiative, eight governors agreed to meet with inmates, crime victims and corrections staff to better understand how their criminal justice policies impact people.
The wait for drug test results can bring the criminal justice system to a slow crawl. There's a faster test, but few are using it.
Stephen Webber, chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party, after Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal posted -- and then quickly deleted -- a Facebook comment that said "I hope Trump is assassinated!” Her comment came in the wake of the president's remarks about the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va. As of Friday afternoon, she refused to resign.
Age that Maine Gov. Paul LePage wants people to be to vote and join the military in his state. His proposal, which would need permission from the Trump administration, is in response to the legislature's decision to override him and raise the age for buying tobacco to 21.
Texas ran afoul of the Voting Rights Act by restricting the interpretation assistance English-limited voters may receive at the ballot box, a federal appeals court found.
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled the city of Tucson can no longer destroy firearms that have been confiscated by police or turned in by citizens.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has joined 49 other state attorneys general in asking Congress to change federal law so that state and local prosecutors can pursue charges against child sex traffickers.
NYU School of Law will launch a new center, financed by Bloomberg Philanthropies, aimed at helping state attorneys general fight any federal moves to roll back renewable energy, environmental protections and climate policies.
Louisiana's Public Safety and Corrections officials are reviewing the sentences of 16,000 inmates who could have their prison time shortened as criminal law changes take effect Nov. 1. That's around 45 percent of the 35,500 people the state has locked up now.
Under the cover of night, a work crew removed the statue of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney from the grounds of the State House, ending the monument's 145-year perch on the prominent spot in Annapolis.
"Training in 'the sticks,' sticks," says one medical professional. But first, rural areas have to get doctors there.
Redesigning a government website should be about more than attractiveness and easy navigation. It's a chance to reengineer underlying processes.
Kansas' privatized Medicaid system, KanCare, came in last among 36 states' managed care Medicaid programs in a customer satisfaction survey conducted by the firm J.D. Power.
The Christie administration Wednesday issued a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s bid to open Atlantic Ocean waters to offshore drilling.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Tennessee state Rep. Micah Van Huss, a Republican who took to Facebook after the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va., to "let my constituents know where I stand." The Confederate flag, he wrote, is "a symbol of freedom."
Confederate monuments and statues on public property in the United States. Most of them are in the South, and 32 of them have been dedicated or rededicated since 2000.
It's not just an environmental issue, and for the first time, researchers have calculated global warming's potential economic impact on each county.
Expanded credit programs could help cities innovate new financing solutions for much-needed projects.
The wealthy are increasingly seeking their state's highest office. Winning has been the easy part.
Our voting systems are a difficult marriage between ancient and modern tools. Keeping the proper balance is tricky but crucial.
The typical approach can result in the wrong people — or not enough of the right people — being engaged in the response.
This city has opened a new front in its effort to give black newborns the same chance of surviving infancy as white babies: training “doulas” to assist expectant mothers during pregnancy, delivery and afterward.
Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday weighed in on the renewed debate over Confederate monuments in Texas, saying that removing them "won't erase our nation's past, and it doesn't advance our nation's future."
A health plan will be offered on Nevada's exchange in 14 rural counties that had lost their only carrier for the coming year.
The Michigan Capitol is going “green and clean” with a new geothermal heating and cooling system that officials say will be the largest of its kind at a state government building in the country.
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