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President Trump, at the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which asked states to share personal data -- including partial Social Security numbers and voting histories -- about all of their voters. Most states rejected part or all of the request, citing concerns about privacy, reduced voter participation and election cybersecurity.
New Yorkers who applied for free college tuition next year under the state's first-in-nation program. About 23,000 people are projected to qualify. After graduation, students must live and work in the state for as many years as they receive the benefit.
Are body cameras working? How well-trained are patrol officers? What can be done to improve public trust in the force and to better combat the city's rising crime?
Local and state government agencies from Oregon to Connecticut say they are using a Russian brand of security software despite the federal government’s instructions to its own agencies not to buy the software over concerns about cyberespionage, records and interviews show.
Frances Russo-Avena won't ever forget her son screaming for help.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Thursday the completion of the Arkansas Public School Computer Network, a high-speed broadband upgrade for every public school in the state.
The Trump administration's attack on legal marijuana, already stymied by large states determined not to roll back the clock, is increasingly confronting an even more politically potent adversary: military veterans.
A Supreme Court ruling about regulating church signs is spurring cities to repeal their anti-begging laws.
Dangerous heat isn't new to Phoenix, but its efforts to keep people safe in triple-digit temperatures are.
Gov. Bill Haslam and other state officials exulted Thursday as Tennessee's unemployment rate sank to its lowest point in recorded state history last month.
State Superintendent Tony Evers has filed paperwork to challenge Gov. Scott Walker in a 2018 race, according to state campaign records.
Attorneys general from 20 states invoked the memory of a conservative icon, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to make a case that President Donald Trump should defend nearly a million young immigrants who could soon be back in line for deportation.
Karmen Sanone, the secretary for Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott. Sanone not only controlled Ott's email, she was also made his legal guardian -- a title his family disputed in court as his health publicly deteriorates.
A Tennessee judge is offering to cut 30 days off inmate sentences if they agree to undergo an elective birth control procedure.
Revenue Colorado has made off marijuana since legalizing retail sale of the drug for recreational use in 2014, according to VS Strategies, a pro-legalization research company. Most of the money goes toward education.
Jennifer Lawless is optimistic about the wave of women thinking about running for office -- but only tepidly.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage says he might change his mind and run for Senate after all.
Two months after demonstrators demanding greater accountability from state legislators were arrested at the Pennsylvania Capitol, a bill to ban gifts from lobbyists to officials remains stuck in committee without a hearing.
The boundaries of election districts in a southeastern Utah county are unconstitutional and violate the rights of American Indians who make up roughly half the county's population, a federal judge has ruled for the second time.
North Carolina's Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper said Thursday that his administration will oppose the Trump administration's efforts to open Atlantic Ocean waters to offshore oil and gas drilling. Cooper's decision reverses the state's policy under former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, who urged federal officials to promote energy exploration in ocean waters to help the nation achieve energy independence.
Elon Musk said Thursday that he has received "verbal government approval" -- but not a formal go-ahead -- for his newest, tunnel-digging venture to build an underground, high-speed transportation system connecting New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
It's a fancy legal term for a law that seeks to punish someone after the fact. It is a big no-no, banned by the U.S. and Pennsylvania constitutions.
Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau on Thursday called the shooting death of Justine Damond "unnecessary" and bluntly said it contradicted the mission and training given to her officers.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions' claim that President Trump won't strip federal funding from San Francisco, Santa Clara County and other sanctuary locales for refusing to cooperate with immigration officers was an "illusory promise," a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Jurisdictions are tapping the latest in behavioral science to steer people toward better choices. Emerging technologies can increase its impact.
Low take-up is a problem at every level of government. As recent research shows, just keeping things simple can help a lot.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Complaints to New York City's 311 system last year about loud talking. Noise complaints in the city in general have more than doubled in five years.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, referring to a women's leadership workshop at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Miami Beach last month.
Just 30 miles south of the urban epicenter of Houston, the scene around one of Texas’ oldest maximum-security prisons has a much more rustic quality.
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