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Clarifying an earlier ruling, a federal judge in Fort Worth said Wednesday that his injunction barring the Obama administration from enforcing its school directive on transgender bathrooms applied to every state in the nation.
A Vermont Public Radio poll released Wednesday shows Sue Minter and Phil Scott locked in a statistical tie as the gubernatorial election enters the final weeks.
The California Department of Justice is investigating Wells Fargo & Co. on allegations of criminal identity theft over its creation of millions of unauthorized accounts, according to a search warrant sent to the bank's San Francisco headquarters this month.
Will Medicaid expansion save the country money as people stop using expensive emergency rooms for primary care?
Facing unprecedented warnings of a "rigged" election from Donald Trump, state officials around the country are rushing to reassure the public, and some are taking subtle steps to boost security at polling places because of the passions whipped up by the race.
Voters in two states rejected measures that would have raised taxes -- either for consumers or corporations.
In less than a month, our Electoral College handicapping went from indicating a narrowing presidential contest to one that is widening.
After fighting a property tax lawsuit for five years, Princeton University, the third-wealthiest endowed university in the country, has agreed to an $18 million settlement with neighbors who claimed the university’s tax-exempt status unfairly made their property taxes higher.
West Virginia is taking steps to clamp down on the proliferation of prescription opioids, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced Tuesday.
Hours after his wife pleaded guilty to misdemeanor pot-possession charges connected with 2 pounds of the drug found at their house, Utah's Democratic candidate for governor pushed Tuesday for the legalization of medical marijuana.
A new report by a think tank at Georgetown University calls for greater oversight in the use of emerging facial recognition software that makes the images of more than 117 million Americans — a disproportionate number of them black — searchable by law enforcement agencies.
Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and Democrat Roy Cooper sparred over taxes, House Bill 2, coal ash and even hurricane relief Tuesday night in the final debate of their gubernatorial campaign.
Faculty at 14 Pennsylvania state universities went on strike Wednesday morning, affecting more than 100,000 students, after contract negotiations between the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the faculty union hit an impasse.
Harvard and Bloomberg Philanthropies have teamed up to offer what they say is the first major effort to formally educate mayors about how to be more effective.
Without a job, recipients risk losing their benefits. But states aren't spending much to help them get and stay employed. See how your state's welfare funding is being spent.
Charles Wasko's days are numbered as West York mayor, and it's a pretty low number: four, after West York's borough council voted unanimously on Monday to accept his resignation.
With three weeks until Election Day, Hillary Clinton's team is stepping up its coordinated campaign efforts, sending an additional $6 million to seven battleground states with competitive Senate races.
In a setback for Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Baton Rouge judge refused Monday to order Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry to approve state contracts that protect gays and lesbians from workplace discrimination.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Friday that Florida's revamped death penalty law is unconstitutional, declaring that death sentences must be determined by a unanimous jury and triggering the potential re-sentencing of hundreds of inmates on Death Row.
Nevada gaming leaders, lawmakers and laborers who supported legislation that provides public funding for an NFL-ready stadium cheered as Gov. Brian Sandoval signed the bill into law this morning.
Gas prices in New Jersey will go up Nov. 1 by 23 cents a gallon after Gov. Chris Christie signed the largest gas tax increase in state history on Friday.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich is barring Wells Fargo & Company from participating in future state debt offerings and financial services contracts initiated by state agencies under his authority.
The industry spent millions of dollars to keep voters in California from passing a first-in-nation law that was meant to cut the soaring cost of prescription drugs.
Calling existing rules “obscene” disenfranchisement, a federal judge in Tallahassee declared late Sunday that Florida must provide a method for voters to fix signature problems that might arise when they vote by mail in the presidential election.
Detroit taxpayers have been fully paying for the living expenses of the city's CFO and his chief of staff -- including high-end downtown apartments and weekly flights to their out-of-state homes -- since at least March, despite claims that the expenses were partially funded from a grant, the Free Press has learned.
One of the oldest environmental groups in the country threw its support behind Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sue Minter on Sunday, calling a vote for the former transportation secretary "an installment in a down payment for our clean energy future."
Gov. Paul LePage affirmed his statement Friday that two advocates of a state ballot question to increase the minimum wage should be jailed, saying they are guilty of the "attempted murder" of senior citizens because of the alleged impact of a wage increase.
Families of pediatric medical marijuana patients were joined by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy at Connecticut Children's Medical Center Thursday for a ceremonial signing of legislation to expand the state's medical marijuana program to include children.
A county Republican headquarters in Hillsborough, N.C., was firebombed overnight Saturday, an attack that a party official called "political terrorism."
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