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Seven health-care policies you could see more of if the Affordable Care Act is replaced.
About an hour after some 200 police officers cleared the last demonstrators against the Dakota Access Pipeline from their sprawling encampment on the North Dakota prairie last week, Gov. Doug Burgum signed into law four bills aimed at making it easier to control such protests.
The White House issued standard guidance Tuesday that listed 47 state attorneys general who had just met with President Trump. But the story of their visit was a little more complicated than that.
Amid mounting overdose deaths, Gov. Larry Hogan pledged Wednesday to spend an extra $10 million a year to battle Maryland's problem with heroin and prescription pill abuse.
Andrew Gillum, the young African-American Democratic Tallahassee mayor who took on the gun lobby, will formally announce his 2018 bid for Florida governor on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court has refused a plea from Democratic Party lawyers, at least for now, to rein in alleged "racial gerrymandering" by Republican-led states in the South that protects black lawmakers at the expense of other Democrats.
The administration of Gov. Bruce Rauner has set up a website intended to recruit people willing to work for the state in the event of a strike by union employees.
Research has largely rejected claims associating immigrants with higher crime. A new Governing analysis finds the same to be true for undocumented immigrants.
President Donald Trump quietly signed a bill into law Tuesday rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun.
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state couldn't bar St. Louis from establishing its own minimum wage. The ruling could bolster legal arguments in favor of a higher minimum wage in Kansas City if voters approve one in an upcoming election.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana has an ongoing "judicial emergency" and has called in out-of-state judges to help with a backlog of cases.
President Donald Trump stepped up his attack on federal environmental protections Tuesday, issuing an order directing his administration to begin the long process of rolling back sweeping clean water rules that were enacted by his predecessor.
Secretary of State Jon Husted on Monday said his latest review of Ohio's voter registration rolls uncovered 385 more noncitizens, 82 of whom have apparently cast illegal ballots.
The delicate balance of political power in the Senate will hold following two special elections on Tuesday that preserve the status quo.
In his first joint address to Congress, the president talked a lot about improving infrastructure and health care but offered virtually no new details about how.
The president's budget director wants to eliminate a fund that supports research-backed state and local projects. It's won bipartisan support in the past. Will Congress step in to save it?
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The federal government approved the experiment, called the Healthy Indiana Plan, or HIP 2.0, which is now up for a three-year renewal.
President Donald Trump said again Monday that he was preparing to spend big on infrastructure. But even as he spoke, administration officials and congressional leaders were telling governors to expect little new federal investment in roads, bridges, transit systems, dam repairs and other water works.
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday announced plans to revamp the state's system for insuring many of its poorest residents, saying the changes could save taxpayers money and improve health.
President Donald Trump will order his administration to rescind and rewrite an Obama-era environmental rule that critics say gave the U.S. government too much power to regulate waterways nationwide, according to a senior White House official.
Supreme Court justices on Monday cast doubt on a North Carolina law that bans registered sex offenders from using Facebook and other online social media.
Decades of research has largely rejected claims associating immigrants with higher crime. A new Governing analysis finds the same to be true for undocumented immigrants in particular.
Fake news is as old as Bigfoot. But social media and the president have fueled its recent proliferation.
The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump will support Texas officials' claim that the state's voter identification law did not specifically target minority voters, retreating from the federal government's previous stance that state lawmakers intentionally discriminated when crafting the law.
An improving economy and rigid fiscal discipline under Republican Gov. Paul LePage have contributed to an all-time record for Maine state government: more than $1 billion in its cash pool.
Karl Dean is running for governor of Tennessee in an uphill bid to become the first Democrat elected statewide in the Volunteer State since 2006.
Republican governors are split over an Obamacare replacement plan -- just like their counterparts in Congress.
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a city's ordinance banning discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, but it stopped short of saying whether a state law aimed at prohibiting such local LGBT protections is constitutional.
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