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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?
There are no easy answers for a career public manager ordered to cut spending with no consideration of its impact.
Effective leadership can make a big difference in public education. States can do more to promote it.
In the wake of reports exposing a culture of harassment and retaliation in Missouri's prisons, the director of the agency sent a resignation letter to agency employees Thursday.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the city of Sterling Heights claiming the Detroit suburb was biased against Muslims when it shot down a plan to build a mosque there last year.
President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration Thursday, ordering federal funds be made available to victims of the fires that killed 14 and damaged or destroyed more than 2,400 structures in Gatlinburg and the surrounding Sevier County communities.
Current and historical rainy day fund balances for each state.
They’re into more than showmanship. They’re struggling to turn the gambling mecca into a thriving 21st century urban place.
More than half the states have passed laws to protect victims, but the laws aren’t always enforced and often produce new challenges.
As the new administration likely backs away from Obama's commitment to reduce greenhouse gases, mayors are stepping up their efforts.
Particularly in rural areas, governments are increasingly turning to them to ease the shortage of providers, blurring the line between religion and medicine.
In 1970, an architect began building a self-sustaining town of the future. Now it stands as a lab for environmentally conscious urban planners.
Former Milwaukee police officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown was charged Thursday with first-degree reckless homicide in the fatal on-duty shooting of Sylville Smith, which sparked riots in Sherman Park in August.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
In late-October, before a restless crowd in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Republican-elect Donald Trump laid out the closing argument of his campaign.
One attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is already investigating Donald J. Trump over possible violations of New York State law at his charity foundation.
Gov. John Bel Edwards overstepped his authority in an order requiring state agencies and private companies contracting for state work to not discriminate against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people in the workplace, a district judge in Baton Rouge ruled Wednesday morning.
No honeymoon, then.
Uber is acting illegally by operating self-driving cars in San Francisco and "must cease" until it gets a permit, according to a strongly worded letter sent by California's Department of Motor Vehicles on Wednesday.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert Wednesday urging pregnant women to consider postponing any travels to Brownsville because five people there have become infected with the Zika virus through mosquito bites.
A judge has ordered the city of Chicago to hold off on implementing new restrictions on Airbnb and other home-sharing platforms after a group of homeowners sued the city last month.
