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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.
Former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray is going to run for governor of Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Bill O'Neill said he was told last week by a mutual friend.
Senate Republicans' proposal to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act without a replacement would leave 32 million more Americans without health insurance over the next decade, according to an updated analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
California’s Obamacare exchange scrubbed its annual rate announcement this week, the latest sign of how the ongoing political drama over the Affordable Care Act is roiling insurance markets nationwide.
Police and prosecutors in Baltimore have launched investigations after being alerted to body camera footage that the public defender's office says shows an officer planting drugs.
After an embarrassing jail escape that was blamed in part on inadequate facilities, Walker County in 2012 issued $20 million in bonds to build a new jail. It was a hefty price tag for the county of fewer than 70,000 people north of Houston, and officials pledged to search for new revenue streams to help pay for the jail.
The Idaho Supreme Court, in a 4-1 ruling Tuesday afternoon, upheld Gov. Butch Otter's veto of legislation removing the state's 6 percent sales tax on groceries.
The Oakland Police Department can no longer designate its investigators as U.S. customs enforcement officers -- a classification that allows local police agencies to work with federal immigration officials on cases of human trafficking, narcotics smuggling and other cross-border crimes.
The Trump administration's travel ban suffered another legal setback Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a federal judge in Hawaii, temporarily exempting grandparents and other extended family members from the directive.
The president's victory has been extensively explored. But a state- and county-level look at the data offers stunning evidence of just how large the shifts were in certain places.
The latest plans in California and New Jersey have observers asking: creative solution or accounting gimmick?
State politicians on both sides of the aisle have increasingly worked to curb the practice. Now, the attorney general may have made their efforts pointless.
A FOX Sports announcer, after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie caught a foul ball at a New York Mets baseball game.
Voters who cast a ballot for city council elections in Haysville or Park City, Kan., on the first day of early primary voting. The state Legislature moved local elections from spring to fall this year, which some said would increase turnout.
Seven years of Republican vows to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act came to a crashing halt Tuesday.
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