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Everyone in the courtroom could agree on this: If the acid in Mel Russell’s blood had been a minuscule amount higher, the little boy’s condition would have been caught before he suffered brain damage.
The FBI notified the Illinois Republican Party in June that some of its email accounts may have been hacked, but party officials were not told that it was part of a wide-ranging federal investigation of Russian activity in the nation's political system, the state GOP's executive director said Sunday.
The election of Donald Trump should remind us — again — of the vast difference between managing a company and running a government.
While it's important to train first responders, we also need to be ready to deal with survivors, their families and the loved ones of victims.
Employers say they can't find enough skilled workers. Colleges and employers have important roles to play in addressing that problem.
They would be mostly -- but not all -- good for state and local revenues.
Districts are experimenting with ways to get every student access to high-speed Internet. Right now, millions don't.
There's a big challenge that advocates need to recognize.
Progress is slow. Our overly enthusiastic forecasts prove that.
The housing shortages that plague most urban areas are a prime example of the complications that can arise when states take a back seat.
The Chicagos and Cincinnatis of the world are more vulnerable than they realize.
D.C. may be an object of Republican disdain, but it’s now at the center of governmental change.
A look back at their evolution may offer some idea of what lies ahead.
In a unanimous decision issued Thursday, the Missouri Supreme Court deemed a state law barring undocumented immigrants from being granted bail to be unconstitutional.
Advocates are hoping to replicate the success they had at the ballot box this year.
When a rock band's fireworks display exploded into flames at a crowded Rhode Island nightclub in February 2003, killing 100 people, fire safety in the nation's smallest state was governed by a patchwork of mostly outdated local regulations.
North Carolina's outgoing Republican Gov. Pat McCrory was briefly spotted in Trump Tower in New York City on Wednesday morning, but he gave no public indication about his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.
Before she heads to her shift at a nursing home in New Haven, Connecticut, every morning, nursing assistant Elisha LaRose drops her 4-year-old son off at a day care center.
After serving three years as the lone woman in the S.C. Senate, Katrina Shealy is happy to have more company.
Montana Department of Transportation Director Mike Tooley told the Montana Contractors Association this week that it is delaying $144.5 million of road projects across the state as it faces a budget shortfall that could ultimately kill the contracts altogether, said association Executive Director Cary Hegreberg.
Among Republican ideas to transform the health care system is a proposal to allow health insurers to sell their policies across state lines.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Hyattsville has become the first municipality in Prince George’s County to extend voting privileges to non-U.S. citizens, joining six other Maryland cities that passed similar measures years ago.
After two days of ballot counting, conflicting court decisions and legal wranglings between frustrated lawyers, a federal judge on Wednesday halted the hand recount of 4.8 million ballots cast for president in Michigan, concluding there's no real evidence of foul play and there's no valid reason to continue the recount.
President-elect Donald Trump has made many promises on immigration, including a new one Wednesday to "work something out" for the so-called Dreamers _ young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
Donald Trump picked Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency, signaling the president-elect will deliver on his vow to disassemble President Barack Obama's landmark effort to fight climate change.
But a new report, released right after Trump nominated a climate skeptic to lead the EPA, shows that some states still have rising emissions.
Lawmakers almost never know a company's full tax picture when they sign away corporate tax credits. That's unlikely to change any time soon.
Donald Trump has picked Terry Branstad, the long-serving Iowa governor who proved a loyal and unflinching surrogate in the presidential race, to be the ambassador to China, the transition team said Wednesday.
With the legislative session just weeks ahead, the Texas business community is digging in its heels in opposition to Texas Republicans’ anti-LGBT proposals, warning they could have dire consequences on the state’s economy.
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