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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.
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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.
Middletown, Ohio, City Councilman Dan Picard, on why he suggested that his city's 911 service should ignore calls about opioid overdoses when the user has overdosed more than two times. After his comments made nationwide news, Picard says he has "no regrets."
Average annual time drivers spend looking for parking in New York City, which is the highest in the nation.
The federal government is giving the Oregon DMV another temporary reprieve after state lawmakers approved a plan to offer TSA-compliant driver's licenses.
Dashboard-camera videos of incidents in which police officers use fatal force must be made available to the public in most circumstances, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a unanimous decision that advocates for open government and transparency are calling a historic victory.
Dr. David Fowler’s staff is scrambling to keep up with the surging stream of corpses flowing through the doors.
For many consumers, an unexpected health care calamity can quickly burgeon into a financial calamity. Just over half of all the debt that appears on credit reports is related to medical expenses, and consumers may find that their credit score gets as banged up as their body.
The Seattle City Council unanimously approved an income tax on wealthy residents Monday, a move widely expected to draw a quick legal challenge.
Democrats flipped two GOP-controlled districts on Tuesday, giving Oklahoma's minority party a morale boost heading into a long season of special elections as they prepare for 2018.
Amount the city of St. Anthony, Minn., agreed to pay the police officer who was recently acquitted of all charges related to his fatal shooting of Philando Castile to leave the department.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in response to a radio caller who took issue with the governor's beach outing during the state shutdown. Christie auditioned on-air this week for a job hosting a sports radio show.
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