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Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who has been accused by some of having the demeanor of "a sort of Bizarro Trump."
Canine attacks on postal workers in the U.S. in 2016, up from 5,581 in 2013. Among major cities, Los Angeles had the largest number of attacks: 80.
A panel of judges has upheld Philadelphia's beverage tax, dismissing complaints from the American Beverage Association and local retailers that the levy is unlawful.
More than a month after the Trump administration purged data tracking climate change from the Environmental Protection Agency's website, the numbers are going back online in some unexpected places.
Rep. Paul Thissen, the Minneapolis DFLer who was speaker of the Minnesota House during a brief but intense period of progressive legislative victories a few years ago, said Wednesday that he is running for governor.
A project dubbed by one senior Oregon manager as "the most important information technology effort in the state" has been plagued by escalating costs, a bureaucratic turf battle and technical misfires.
Days after Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed away from a pledge to have a judge monitor efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department, a host of civil rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit seeking to spur sweeping changes in the troubled department that would be enforced by the courts.
Medical marijuana cards will now cost as low as $50 for Nevada patients, edible products will come in opaque, child-proof packages and a 10 percent excise tax on sales of recreational weed estimated to generate $70 million will be designated for Nevada's rainy day fund after three of four remaining marijuana bills passed by the Nevada Legislature were signed into law Monday by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
The Legislature sued Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday, as a fight between two branches of Minnesota government spilled into the third branch.
In a dramatic turnaround, a federal judge has ruled that permits to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline must be reconsidered, and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has demanded the flow of oil through the pipeline be stopped.
They can effectively smooth economic bumps. But it's important to have clear rules for how and when to use the money.
Governments and nonprofits are collaborating on successful approaches to mitigating home foreclosures. Those efforts need to be sustained.
When a gunman allegedly shot five people at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., his actions also impacted his hometown in Illinois.
The number of children in Maine that lack health insurance. That's 6 percent of all children in the state, a 50 percent increase from 2010, when only 4 percent of kids were uninsured. Even as the rates of uninsured children across the nation have dropped, those in Maine continue to climb.
Nick Lyon, the Michigan health and human services director, who was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter for his role in the Flint water crisis. According to charging documents, Lyon knew about an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease due to contaminated water in 2015, but said nothing to the public until a year later. Twelve people died in the outbreak. He also allegedly said "[we] can't save everyone."
Wednesday's shooting during a congressional baseball practice is the latest example of the increased violence -- both threatened and real -- that is seeping into America's political process.
The number of Maine children without health insurance is climbing after years of declines, even though fewer live in poverty, a new report found.
Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders announced a budget deal Tuesday that strips University of California President Janet Napolitano's office of some of its financial autonomy, limits the authority of the embattled Board of Equalization, increases tax credits for the poor and saves the Middle Class Scholarship program at public universities.
Taxes on marijuana would hit to 28 percent under the bill Massachusetts House lawmakers plan to propose and take up this week. A legalization advocacy group called the tax hike "irrational" and a boost to the black market.
Iowa wants help from the federal government to bail out the state's individual health insurance market, which has emerged as a leading example of troubles with the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA).
A proposed ban on private prisons in Nevada will not move forward after Gov. Brian Sandoval’s veto.
The head of the Michigan health department was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter, the highest-ranking member of Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration to be snagged in a criminal investigation of Flint’s lead-contaminated water.
An app like the one Cincinnati has created to track heroin overdoses can help first responders and others deploy their resources more effectively.
The percentage of Georgia voters that said they were closely following the House special election between Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff in a poll by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Sixty-four percent said they were following the race "very closely," and 52 percent said they thought the race was more important than past elections.
Alison Dreith, the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri, referring to Missouri state Rep Mike Moon, who released a video of himself killing a chicken to highlight his bill to ban abortion in the state. Dreith went on to say that "we will not let [Moon] use the rights of women across Missouri as some kind of political prop. His call to ban abortion is disturbing and dangerous, no matter what he does with that chicken."
Workers can right size social services by getting a more complete view of the citizen, better understanding needs, risks and coverage gaps through the life cycle of care.
Help children, elderly, and their families get the services they need through life’s challenges. Using cognitive computing can help better serve families through challenges.
Major challenges in social programs include an aging population, youth unemployment, troubled families, and program integrity. Government agencies are searching for ways to introduce technology to strengthen their services.
Louisiana and other Southern states have the highest rates of new HIV and AIDS diagnoses, the largest percentage of people living with the disease, and the most people dying from it.
The story of Demetrus Coonrod reinforces the efforts of Baltimore to engage citizens returning from incarceration.
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