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El Dorado Correctional Facility's staffing shortage constitutes an official emergency, the Kansas Department of Corrections said Tuesday in response to a complaint over mandatory 12-hour shifts for workers at the prison.
Republican state Rep. Geoff Diehl invoked Scott Brown's shocking Senate upset, the Red Sox' 2004 World Series victory and the Patriots' historic come-from-behind Super Bowl win to launch his longshot bid to unseat Bay State U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren last night.
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Tuesday followed through on his promise to veto a school funding bill, taking aim at hundreds of millions of dollars in help for cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools.
A bombshell report in The New York Times Tuesday night revealed that the U.S. Justice Department plans to investigate and sue colleges over their affirmative action policies in admissions.
After the Senate fell short in its effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is poised to use its regulatory powers to accomplish what lawmakers could not: shrink Medicaid.
Democratic Attorney General Hector Balderas joined with those from other states Tuesday in filing a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency and Administrator Scott Pruitt for stalling the designation of areas impacted by unhealthy levels of ground-level ozone, known as smog.
A federal court Friday struck down portions of a 2014 Alabama state law allowing court-like proceedings when a minor seeks an abortion without parental consent.
Eighteen counties in Texas, including Tarrant County, have entered into new pacts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that allow local officers to enforce federal immigration laws, officials said Monday.
Existing health insurers have agreed with the Ohio Department of Insurance to step in and serve nearly every Ohio county that otherwise would lack even a single insurer in the Obamacare market next year.
And what they want states to do while Congress tries.
Garbage workers are killed on the job more often than police or firefighters.
khalid kamau wants to prove that you don't have to be wealthy, white or in California for progressive policies to work.
Estimated cost of hosting the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The city predicts it will cover the expense entirely through sponsorships, ticket sales and use of existing stadiums and facilities.
Chris Christie, defending his response to a fan at a baseball game who yelled out "you suck!" when the New Jersey governor passed him. Christie leaned in, inches away from the fan's face, and said "you're a big shot."
A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing four new abortion restrictions, including a ban on a common second trimester procedure and a fetal remains law that opponents say would effectively require a partner’s consent before a woman could get an abortion.
North Carolina will not have special elections in 2017 in new state legislative districts, but three federal judges ordered lawmakers to draw boundaries to correct what they have ruled to be unconstitutional racial gerrymanders by Sept. 1.
One of the nation’s largest cybersecurity conferences is inviting attendees to get hands-on experience hacking a slew of voting machines, demonstrating to researchers how easy the process can be.
After Seattle voters approved first-in-the-nation taxpayer-funded "democracy vouchers" for city candidates, Honest Elections Seattle declared that the program launched this year would "get big money out of politics."
Top executives of big oil companies and other major Houston firms and organizations on Monday weighed into the political dogfight over the controversial bathroom bill, calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to block passage of the legislation that they warned will harm Texas' ability to grow its economy.
After weeks of negotiations with the International Olympic Committee, Los Angeles officials have reached a deal to host the 2028 Summer Games under terms they hope will generate hundreds of millions in savings and additional revenues.
Joe Arpaio, the Arizona lawman who once proclaimed himself "America's toughest sheriff" and was largely praised by conservatives for his hard-line policing tactics, was found guilty Monday of criminal contempt, bringing his tenure as a relentless crusader against illegal immigration to an end.
Cook County shoppers who buy sweetened beverages will be charged a penny-per-ounce tax beginning Wednesday, after a judge dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the county tax as unconstitutional.
Flying drones near prisons and jails in North Carolina is now a crime.
Marcus Newell, owner of a doggy day care service in Colorado, where it recently became legal for people to care for three or fewer pets without the licensing that's required for kennels or doggy day cares.
Time until power is expected to be restored on two popular tourist islands off the coast of North Carolina. The blackout, which started last Thursday, has forced thousands to evacuate.
Estimates of jobs at risk of being automated in each region.
Call it "The Cross and Text Law."
A bill requiring employers to provide "reasonable accommodations" to pregnant employees and banning termination or hiring discrimination against women because of pregnancy has become law in Massachusetts.
So often it has been Nashville Mayor Megan Barry seeking to comfort the city during times of tragedy.
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that publicly owned railroads are not exempt from the state's bedrock environmental law, a decision hailed by environmental watchdogs on the North Coast and opponents of California's high-speed rail project.
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