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Top officials in the Democratic National Committee are worried about a sudden drop in voter registrations in Colorado, concerned that President Donald Trump's new election commission is encouraging Democrats across the country to remove themselves from the electoral grid for fear of revealing personal information to the GOP leadership.
As the first leader of a national government to ever address the National Governors Association, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for fewer trade barriers and promised to work directly with state leaders.
Environmental advocacy is difficult in the Trump era. In rural areas, it's even harder. “To be personally attacked for speaking up, to be silenced, it was devastating to me," says one resident who tried to fight fracking in her rural Pennsylvania county.
Susan Dreyfus, the president and CEO of the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, a national association of nonprofit providers in social services
People who have revoked their voter registration in Colorado since Secretary of State Wayne Williams announced that he would comply with the Trump administration's request for voter data. That's far more than the usual handful of cancellations during similar time periods.
The programs we have are pretty good, but they need to keep graduates engaged and deepen their learning.
It would slam the insurance industry, bringing downturns in the bond market and tax revenues.
A federal appeals court in Manhattan on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, but prosecutors quickly signalled that they would seek to re-try the case against the once powerful Albany powerbroker.
A federal judge in Hawaii ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to allow grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles and other relatives of people in the U.S. to circumvent the travel ban policy.
Distributors previously operating in Nevada's medical marijuana program may soon enter the recreational marijuana market after the Nevada Tax Commission today approved emergency regulations to reopen distribution licensing.
A top-down view of transportation is important, but it's crucial to focus on the needs of individuals and underserved communities.
In this community center turned polling place, Juan Sanchis stands near an electronic ballot reader with a smile on his face, waiting.
Beginning in January, Michigan will have rules in place for the disclosure and retention of audio or video recordings from body cameras worn by police officers.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) threw his weight behind former NAACP President Ben Jealous' bid for Maryland governor on Thursday morning during an endorsement rally.
The Trump administration's attempt this weekend to win their support didn't go as planned.
Hoping to secure the 50 votes needed for passage, Senate Republicans unveiled their revised draft health care legislation on Thursday that includes some meaningful changes but retains many of the same elements that kept the original version from winning the support of GOP moderates.
Time that parents in Marion County, Fla., are required to read to their children every night. The new rule is in place of homework, which the county is banning for elementary schools.
A Facebook post shared by Jeff Sieting, the president of Kalkaska Village, Mich. In response, some residents may try to recall him.
Standard & Poor's downgraded Hartford debt to junk bond status late Tuesday, less than a week after the financially troubled capital city hired a New York law firm with expertise in restructuring municipal finances.
Alaska will receive more than $300 million in new federal funding over the next five years to shore up the state's individual health insurance market, federal officials announced Tuesday.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Wisconsin's law that bars collective bargaining agreements requiring workers to pay union fees.
While Republicans in Washington keep promising rollbacks of gun control laws — though so far haven’t taken action on any on it — Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety group is claiming another round of success in new restrictions passed on the state level.
Cops Pulled Over a Black Driver for Having 'Really Dark' Windows. It Was the Florida State Attorney.
Florida’s first African-American state attorney, Aramis Ayala, was leaving Florida A&M University College of Law in Orlando, Florida on June 19, when police officers stopped her.
The state's transportation chief calls a new $54 billion transportation package monumental. But the projects it funds will be more mundane than monumental.
The industry has been a key driver of the sector's job gains. See which metro areas could suffer most from expected job losses.
Wisconsin's state budget impasse just got $51 million harder to solve thanks to the tax increases that neighboring Illinois enacted to finally pass its spending plan, state lawmakers learned Tuesday.
Nevada officials have declared a state of emergency over marijuana: There's not enough of it.
On Jan. 14, 2014, David Wildstein walked into the United States Attorney's Office here and started talking.
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