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The North Carolina Senate voted down a repeal of House Bill 2 and adjourned Wednesday after a day of increasingly partisan rancor that pitted conservative Republicans against the Charlotte they so distrust.
There's a lot of capital out there waiting to be deployed, but outdated regulations are standing in the way.
There are both benefits and challenges to a modular, agile approach to modernizing health and human services technology.
In what could be a tumultuous year for state and local finances, these five issues are likely to take center stage.
The latest charges bring the total to 13.
The benefits are among the most generous in the nation.
But voters still support capital punishment laws.
The president says the ban, which also includes parts of the Atlantic, cannot easily be lifted by a successor.
The lethal injection drug remains involved in other legal battles around the country.
Tax cuts and declining oil revenues are to blame.
The decision could affect thousands of low-income women in the state.
The change is designed to reflect the reality of lower recent returns. But it means billions more in contributions from taxpayers and state employees.
A group of states experienced strong gains, while much of the Midwest and Northeast lost residents via migration.
With less people and money, small towns are prone to making big and expensive errors. One company wants to change that.
According to union officials and HR executives around the country.
The Arizona State Board of Education voted to adopt revisions to its Common Core-based K-12 math and reading learning standards Monday.
Hullabaloo about whether any of Maine's four Electoral College electors would defy the will of Election Day voters fizzled Monday afternoon at the State House when three electors voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton and one for President-elect Donald Trump.
A rare uprising took hold of the State House on Monday as rank-and-file lawmakers from both parties killed a controversial bill that would have allowed Governor Christie to cash in on a book-publishing deal and give hefty raises to his Cabinet officers, judges and legislative aides.
In a dramatic response to the expected crackdown on illegal immigration by Donald Trump, Los Angeles leaders on Monday will announce a new $10 million fund to provide legal assistance for immigrants facing deportation.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Monday formally announced $13.3 million settlements reached over the past month with family members and surviving victims in a pair of police shootings that left three people dead after Hurricane Katrina, as well as a settlement last summer over a third police killing a month before the storm.
In an unprecedented break with party and tradition, four members of the Electoral College in Washington passed over the state's popular vote winner, Democrat Hillary Clinton, on Monday to pick a candidate who wasn't on the November ballot.
Republicans at the federal and state levels want to defund universities that protect undocumented students from deportation. It's making some schools think twice about their policies, but should they?
Like much of the president's policies, his most recent rule on funding for abortion providers may not matter once Donald Trump takes the White House.
A federal appeals court on Friday refused to stay a judge's order that requires Michigan to make regular deliveries of bottled water to Flint households that don't have a working water filter on their kitchen taps.
A congressional committee investigating the Flint water crisis today issued letters finding repeated failures in which state environmental officials "remained indifferent" about the danger of lead levels in the city's water and federal regulators "ignored multiple demands" to intervene.
A federal judge has delayed Texas' fetal remains burial rule until Jan. 6.
Four days into a water contamination emergency, city leaders acknowledge they don't know how much of a toxic chemical leaked into the public water system and people are reporting they are getting sick.
In a push to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from a fast-evolving industry, California regulators approved the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for computers Wednesday.
North Carolina legislators wrapped up their work Friday on a pair of proposals that would deprive the incoming governor of a substantial part of his authority to make appointments and reduce Democrats' power over election regulation. Gov. Pat McCrory signed into law the bill dealing with elections a short time later.
We've just begun to tap the potential. What does 2017 have in store?
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