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The California National Guard told the state's members of Congress two years ago that the Pentagon was trying to claw back re-enlistment bonuses from thousands of soldiers, and even offered a proposal to mitigate the problem, but Congress took no action, according to a senior National Guard official.
The Virginia Board of Health voted Monday to scrap hospital-style building codes for all abortion clinics, saying that they were unconstitutional under a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
The cost of health insurance under the Affordable Care Act is expected to rise an average of 22 percent in 2017, according to information released by the Obama administration Monday afternoon.
The Justice Department has replaced the New York team of agents and lawyers investigating the death of Eric Garner, officials said, a highly unusual shake-up that could jump-start the long-stalled case and put the government back on track to seek criminal charges.
Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane was sentenced Monday to 10 to 23 months in jail for orchestrating an illegal news leak to damage a political enemy, capping a spectacular downfall for a woman once seen as one of the state's fastest-rising stars.
As Congress and legislatures stall on the issue, voters are doing what they can to keep firearms out of the hands of dangerous people.
The victors in down-ballot races could determine what approaches states take toward fixing up rundown roads and infrastructure in the years to come.
November's presidential election is the first in more than 50 years in which the federal government won't send a full complement of specially trained observers to monitor elections in states, like Mississippi, with long records of discriminatory voting practices.
Jim Justice, a coal billionaire running for West Virginia governor, owes millions in back taxes to some of Appalachia’s most impoverished counties, including one in Kentucky that is struggling to pay the debt on a new rec center and has turned the lights off in its parks and reduced hot meals for senior citizens.
The health care insurer Cigna has ended its policy of requiring prior authorization before its clients can get medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said Friday.
The two Minneapolis police officers involved in the November 2015 fatal shooting of Jamar Clark will not face discipline because an internal investigation found they did not violate the department's use-of-force policy.
Almost 28,000 Virginia residents registered to vote after the deadline was extended this week, according to the Virginia Department of Elections.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is desperate to talk about his economic achievements after a year mired in contentious debate over social issues, including the state’s transgender “bathroom law.”
President Barack Obama will make a late splash into races for state senate and assembly over the next week, endorsing roughly 150 candidates across 20 states.
Alaska is the latest state to adopt a system in which residents will be automatically registered to vote.
It's time for government and universities to effectively partner.
When it comes to career development and job benefits, millennials, Generation Xers and baby boomers have different priorities.
Technology is boosting the idea of a zero-waste framework in which everything is used, reused and recovered.
Ballot measures in several states would change the rules in dramatic ways. It's a challenge to "politics as usual."
The political ramifications of Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's arrest Thursday on federal corruption charges could start with next month's competitive State Senate elections and stretch into next year's races for nearly all county and Oyster Bay town offices.
After a five-year drought, chocolate and strawberry milk are making their way back into public school lunchrooms in Los Angeles.
Peggy Wall, a family nurse practitioner at a local community health center, treats many women in their 40s, who already have a family and find themselves confronting an accidental pregnancy.
It is understandable that some S.C. voters might be considering casting a write-in vote for president this year -- whether for Nikki Haley, Bernie Sanders, Mickey Mouse or their mom.
Most states have no laws regarding guns in polling places, because for the most part, they haven't really needed to make them. The confluence of firearms and polling places isn't something America has been concerned about on a national scale — until now.
A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law that banned the state's Medicaid program from spending money with any health care provider that offers abortions.
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that cities such as Louisville and Lexington do not have the authority to raise the minimum wage.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
They took steps to repeal the Citizens United ruling, limit campaign contribution limits and create publicly financed elections.
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday sided with Pocomoke City's former police chief and two other black officers alleging race discrimination, filing a motion to intervene in a lawsuit they brought.
Standing together Wednesday in Pasco — where police last year shot to death a Mexican man who was throwing rocks — neither of Washington’s candidates for governor would commit to changing how state law treats police shootings.
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