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The cities of San Antonio and Austin announced on Thursday they have joined the fight to stop the state's new immigration enforcement law, Senate Bill 4, in federal court.
After remaining quiet on the issue during the recent legislative session, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Thursday that will eliminate the straight-ticket voting option starting in 2020.
Gov. Paul LePage is suggesting that prison inmates granted "conditional commutations" could help fill vacancies in Maine's tourism industry as businesses struggle to find workers with summer looming.
Mayor John Labrosse, a former Republican, rejoined the Democratic Party on Thursday.
Following President Donald Trump's decision Thursday to pull the United States out of the historic Paris climate accord, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo encouraged him to reconsider what she called a "short-sighted" move.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said he took personal offense to President Donald Trump's reference to the Steel City in announcing the United States' departure from the Paris climate agreement.
Delaware is trying something completely new in the fight against opioid and heroin addiction, but it could be a long time before it sees any results.
Moving quickly to fill a climate leadership vacuum opened by President Trump, the governors of California, New York and Washington on Thursday announced a new alliance of states dedicated to fighting global warming and urged others to join them.
A group of grad students has won national recognition for their solution to a problem that plagues lower-income people across America.
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Nan Whaley, the mayor of Dayton and a candidate for Ohio governor, urging the state to take action to address the opioid epidemic. Her words come amid news that the state's attorney general filed a lawsuit against five drug manufacturers, seeking financial damages for their role in the crisis.
Terminally ill people in California who have sought a prescription for life-ending drugs since June 2016, which is when the state's physician-assisted death law took effect. The practice is legal in five other states plus the District of Columbia.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday called on states to forge an alliance to support the Paris climate deal following reports that President Trump plans to withdraw the United States from the landmark international accord.
Jacquelyn Orton says her late husband — former Democratic U.S. Rep. Bill Orton — likely would shake his head in disbelief that she's finally running for office, after turning down encouragement from him and others to do so for years.
A 17-year-old transgender Kenosha high school student can continue using the boy's restroom, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, rejecting school district arguments against the practice.
Republicans in the state of Washington didn't wait long in the spring of 1995 to fulfill their pledge to roll back a sweeping law expanding health coverage in the state.
Spring session ended with another thud Wednesday, as Democratic fear of blowback from raising taxes trumped a desire by some to put a spending plan on Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's desk.
The one-two punch of massive cuts to Medicaid that are proposed in both the new budget and the House Republicans' revised American Healthcare Act would result in cuts of close to $1 trillion over 10 years, analysis shows.
The city of Cleveland on Tuesday fired the rookie police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, more than two and a half years after the boy's death.
In a case reminiscent of the battle against tobacco, the state of Ohio on Wednesday sued five major drug manufacturers, blaming their marketing practices for fueling a painkiller addiction crisis that claims thousands of lives a year.
Joe Nigro, a public defender in Nebraska and advocate of a new state law that will end the practice of automatically sending people to jail for failing to pay a fine. In one of the state's jails, it cost $5.6 million last year to house inmates for that reason.
One-year increase in single-family home prices in the Seattle metro area, which represents the largest in the country and more than double the national average of 5.8 percent.
St. Louis and Baltimore have joined the ranks of cities thinking about taking them down. Meanwhile, a countermovement is growing in state legislatures.
Low-income public, parochial and charter high school students in Boston who graduate in 2017 will be able to earn a bachelor's degree without having to pay tuition and mandatory fees under a pilot program announced yesterday.
In some states, if you’re under 18 and you break the law, you’ll be treated as an adult, no matter how slight the crime — even if it’s just jumping a subway turnstile or shoplifting.
Gov. Kay Ivey Friday signed a bill that would shorten the death penalty appeals process in Alabama.
The law, signed by Gov. Pete Ricketts, will require that any person who fails to pay a fine in time appear before a judge instead of automatically sitting out the fine in jail.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to hear a case on whether Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted was correct in his decision to cancel the voting registrations of those who had failed to vote during a two-year period.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler drew criticism Tuesday from free speech advocates, the American Civil Liberties Union and local conservative leaders for calling on the federal government to revoke the permit for a pro-Trump free speech rally Sunday.
The Supreme Court made it harder to sue police for barging into a home and provoking a shooting, setting aside a $4 million verdict against two Los Angeles County deputies on Tuesday.
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