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Illinois lawmakers are one crucial step away from ending the record state budget impasse following a flurry of activity on Independence Day that saw the Senate override Gov. Bruce Rauner's vetoes of a tax hike and spending plan.
Hope soared at the State House just after 10 p.m. Monday when Gov. Paul LePage and Democratic House Speaker Sara Gideon struck a deal for a bipartisan budget bill and an end to Maine's three-day government shutdown.
Lawmakers in Trenton late Monday broke through the impasse that had kept them from adopting the state budget, triggered the shutdown over the weekend, and frayed tempers among the public.
Forty-four states have refused to provide certain types of voter information to the Trump administration's election integrity commission, according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states.
Amount that Vermont promised to put in a college savings account for every child born in the state. Since the law passed two years ago, though, the state has only raised enough private funding to give each kid $2.77.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's response to criticism for spending the weekend at the beach -- even though the state's beaches are closed to the public due to the government shutdown.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval may as well be the Senate’s 53rd Republican.
A mural on the wall of an elementary school here proclaimed, “All the world is all of us,” but the hundreds of people packing the auditorium one night were determined to stop a low-income housing project from coming to their upscale neighborhood.
Minneapolis became one of the first cities in the nation to adopt a $15 minimum wage Friday in a move meant to set an example for the rest of the state and boost the local economy.
The Maine Legislature's special budget panel endorsed a two-year budget late Sunday, setting up a high-pressure round of Monday floor votes on Day 3 of a state shutdown, but risking another impasse with Gov. Paul LePage over hiking the lodging tax.
Cub Scouts being kicked out of a campground in New Jersey may be the most visible sign of budget problems in American states.
Florida's updated "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law is unconstitutional, a Miami judge ruled on Monday.
"Well, I'm sorry, they're not the governor."
Marcus Harris, who runs the "Laundry Truck," which travels around Denver collecting, washing, drying and folding homeless people's clothes. Harris himself is a former drug addict who used to live on the streets.
The number of drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky has climbed the past four years, culminating in an all-time high of 1,404 in 2016. It is hoped that a new law restricting opioid prescriptions, which takes effect Thursday, will reverse the trend.
Limit on opioid prescriptions for acute pain in Kentucky, which now has the toughest restrictions of this kind in the nation.
Gov. Paul LePage said Friday that he won't sign a state budget package endorsed Thursday night by a special panel, ensuring a partial shutdown of state government at midnight.
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said that while same-sex marriage is legal nationwide, the "reach and ramifications" of the rights of gay couples have yet to be determined.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, who dropped his bid for re-election last month, endorsed former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan in the race Thursday.
Indiana's top doctor could soon become the nation's surgeon general.
Senate Republican leader Christine Radogno announced her resignation Thursday, another sign of the lack of progress at the Capitol as Illinois teeters toward a third year without a comprehensive spending plan.
A voter-approved gun-control law due to take effect Saturday, banning the possession of magazines that can hold more than 10 cartridges, was blocked Thursday by a federal judge, who said it would violate Californians' right to defend themselves.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the MTA on Thursday and pledged the state would "commit an additional $1 billion" to the agency's capital plan as part of an effort to expedite improvements to New York City's embattled transit system.
President Trump's commission investigating alleged voter fraud in the 2016 elections has asked states for a list of the names, party affiliations, addresses and voting histories of all voters, if state laws allow it to be public.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and officials from nine other states on Thursday urged the Trump administration to end an Obama-era program that’s allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to live and work in the country without fear of being deported.
Baltimore is already rationing its use.
It's the first city to set water rates based on income.
Times that one man has rammed his car into a Ten Commandments monument outside of a state capitol. He did it in Oklahoma in 2014, and again in Arkansas this week.
Kevin McGuire, the social services commissioner for Westchester County, N.Y., which is piloting a debt forgiveness program that incentives parents who owe child support to get a good job and keep up with their payments. One study showed that 70 percent of late child support payments were owed by parents who made no more than $10,000 a year.
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