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They're too expensive for many low-income families, but courts recently ruled that the federal government can’t regulate their cost. States still can.
Georgia's highest court has determined that a state law allowing taxpayers to steer some of what they owe the state to private schools instead does not violate the state constitution.
California's concealed-weapons law, a virtual ban on carrying a hidden handgun on the streets of San Francisco and most other urban areas, survived a U.S. Supreme Court challenge by gun groups Monday.
In what some are calling a landmark ruling for religious freedom, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided in favor of a Columbia, Mo., church that had been denied state assistance to improve its playground.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is not happy with Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, who on Friday called a proposed California universal health bill "woefully incomplete" and killed it for the year.
Year that the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that women cannot revoke consent after sexual intercourse begins. The law, which isn't found anywhere else in the nation, makes it difficult to prosecute rape cases.
Phil Montag, who was ousted from his job as co-chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party's technology committee after a recording of his comments surfaced. Scalise was among the several people shot during a Congressional baseball practice earlier this month. He remains hospitalized in "fair condition." For his part, Montag claims the recording was edited and that his words were taken out of context.
Even in cities that have tried to address the problem, babies are still dying at high rates for a developed nation.
Westchester County, N.Y., is using debt forgiveness as an incentive for finding employment and paying child support. Will it work?
The Department of Justice on Friday sided with Texas in the lawsuit against its recently passed sanctuary cities ban, lending significant if unsurprising support to boosters of the law.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced on Sunday that he is running for Ohio governor, putting him in contention against two other statewide officials and a U.S. congressman seeking the Republican nomination in 2018.
U.S. mayors spent a long day in Miami Beach giving and taking advice about what to fix in their cities, how to convince voters it's a good idea and -- best of all -- how to pay for it.
The Howard County, Md., government website was hacked Sunday with messages supporting the Islamic State, part of a larger attack on local government websites around the country.
When Sue Krentz was growing up in southern Arizona, about 30 miles from the Mexican border, migrants would wander into the front yard of her parents' modest ranch house and ask to sweep the steps or mow the lawn.
Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb removed a party official from his post Thursday after a recording surfaced of him making offensive remarks about the shooting of U.S. Rep Steve Scalise.
Other studies have found no significant effect in the number of crashes since the first three states legalized marijuana sales.
There are certainly challenges, says Pennsylvania's physician general, but "eventually people will just judge us based off our qualifications and the work we do."
A St. Croix River private property dispute was settled Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a Wisconsin family that wanted to sell shorefront land to finance improvements on an adjacent cabin.
States that California state employees and officials are banned from traveling to using taxpayer dollars. Each of them has laws that California considers discriminatory toward the LGBT community.
The "After Parties" page that lists events for the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors convention, which happened this weekend in Miami Beach, Fla. One of the after parties was held at LIV nightclub, which -- according to the USCM page -- is "the ultimate nightlife experience" and has "three full-service bars, and a lavish main dance floor."
Almost three years after a death-row prisoner agonized on a gurney for nearly two hours during a botched execution, Arizona can legally resume executions — if the state Department of Corrections can find the drugs to do so.
As Gov. Chris Christie openly pushes his agenda focusing on treatment and prevention of opioid abuse, his administration is quietly expanding the effort to the legal front.
Mississippi's Republican leadership praised Thursday's ruling by a three-judge panel of the United States' 5th Circuit Court of Appeals re-instating the state's controversial 2016 legislation that opponents said would lead to discrimination against gays and other groups on religious grounds.
California has its own travel ban. The new law took effect in January, banning state employees and officials from using tax money to go to states with laws it deemed discriminatory in regards to gender identity or sexual orientation -- starting with Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee.
Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Thursday unveiled a bill that would dramatically transform the nation’s Medicaid program, make significant changes to the federal health law’s tax credits that help lower-income people buy insurance and allow states to water down changes to some of the law’s coverage guarantees.
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Hackers backed by the Russian government targeted voting systems in 21 states last year in an effort to undermine confidence in the principle of free and fair elections, U.S. security officials testified on Wednesday.
Aaliyah Palmer was at a party when a man pulled her into a bathroom for sex.
Newly released Census data show different shifts in millennial, Generation X and baby boomer populations across states.
States where revenues for fiscal 2017 turned out to be less than forecasted, which represents the most since the recession. As a result, 23 states have cut spending and more could follow.
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