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Gov. John Kasich today signed another bill targeting Ohio's opiate and heroin epidemic.
As gloomy government budget news stacks up in Austin, a state appeals court ruling issued Friday appears to erase a huge worry about the state’s business franchise tax.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Thursday signed an executive order requiring future contractors that do business with the Executive Branch to adhere to a non-discrimination policy that includes bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
The most powerful in a series of winter storms lashed Northern California and Nevada on Sunday with heavy rains and strong winds, causing widespread flooding, downing trees and unleashing mudslides.
State Rep. Lela Alston has difficulty hearing. Despite wearing hearing aids, she has struggled to follow bill debates on the House floor, and even been reluctant to participate.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met Sunday in Houston with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, adding to tensions with China after President-elect Donald Trump broke diplomatic protocol by talking to her on the phone.
Governments are good at a lot of things, but innovation isn't one of them. That's where partners come in.
Autonomous vehicles are coming, and fast. We need to look at new models for shared ownership.
On their own and in partnership with the White House, they have been giving us hope for the future, a top presidential adviser writes.
Wage growth reached its highest level in seven years. But increases aren't being enjoyed by all segments of the economy.
How Nashville Metro pivoted toward the future
North Texas was freezing during a three-day stretch last month, but Mary Garcia refused to turn on the heat in her cramped apartment.
Donald Trump's hesitation in hiring immigration hard-liner Kris Kobach reflects the next president's indecision on how to approach the biggest issue of his presidential campaign.
The “Kansas experiment” of eliminating the income tax is a failure that Arizona would be wise to avoid, participants at the launch of a new economic-policy think tank were told Thursday.
The proxy battle between Ohio Gov. John Kasich and President-elect Donald Trump over the Ohio Republican chairman's job took a new twist Wednesday with a missive from 38 county GOP chairmen that backs Trump's favorite.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced today that he will make a run to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee, ending weeks of local and national speculation.
Boosted by a failed effort in North Carolina to topple an anti-transgender “bathroom bill”, conservative lawmakers in other states are redoubling their efforts to make restrooms and locker-rooms the next political and cultural battleground.
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Libraries are frequently forced to deal with people's health problems. That's why some are adding medical professionals to their staff.
In a unanimous decision, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that outgoing Gov. Peter Shumlin lacks the authority to act this week to replace a justice who will retire at the end of March.
People in this city had their pick of four health insurers last year when they shopped for policies during the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment.
The latest LIRR train accident -- the second in less than three months -- has raised new concerns about the railroad's safety practices.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's former campaign manager, Bill Stepien, who a prosecution witness testified knew in advance of the politically motivated lane closures at the George Washington Bridge, will serve as White House political director in the Trump administration.
Gov. Roy Cooper announced plans to expand Medicaid by executive action during an address to the business community here on Wednesday -- an action that is against a current state law and will likely face opposition from the Republican-led legislature.
As Chicago braces for the results of a federal civil rights probe into its police practices, the commander hired just six months ago from outside the department to guide reforms abruptly left to become police chief of Oakland, Calif.
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A federal appeals court in St. Louis has declared that Minnesota's sex offender treatment program is constitutional -- handing a major victory to the state but potentially derailing long-awaited reforms to its system of indefinite detention for sex offenders.
The Pennsylvania House on Tuesday made it possible to more quickly expel members who are convicted of certain crimes.
Texas on Tuesday sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for what it says is an "unreasonable delay" in deciding whether to allow the delivery of execution drugs from India.
Nearly 200 people had minor marijuana convictions wiped from their records Tuesday when Gov. Peter Shumlin issued pardons to those whom he said were still facing stigma and “very real struggles” that often accompany drug convictions.
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