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As the news media were scrutinizing lane closures at the George Washington Bridge in 2013, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo decided that the Port Authority should issue a report in an effort to "put an end" to questions about September traffic jams in Fort Lee, N.J., according to testimony Tuesday in federal court here.
Delays in getting $1.1 billion to combat Zika meant some drug companies gave up working with the federal government on developing vaccines and states won't see their share of money until early 2017, a health panel said Monday.
The state, which has more English-language learners than any other, restricted bilingual education in the '90s. Voters are bringing it back.
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Public employers offer to help workers with nearly every aspect of their lives -- whether it's related to their finances or their marriage.
Dozens of protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline project caused fireworks briefly during a gubernatorial debate in downtown Bismarck Monday with a coordinated outburst expressing opposition to the multi-billion dollar project.
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Citing Wells Fargo's "predatory and illegal" practices, Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs said the bank would no longer be broker-dealer for about $30 billion of state investment funds annually, a suspension he said will cost the institution "millions" of dollars in fees -- a figure the company disputed.
The New York attorney general has ordered the Donald J. Trump Foundation, headed by the Republican presidential candidate, to immediately "cease and desist from soliciting contributions in New York."
A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit that alleged police used excessive force against Ferguson protesters and violated their civil rights.
Southern Californians learn to live with the risk of earthquakes.
It's official. President Barack Obama's immigration plan is dead.
Roy Moore said he offered advice to probate judges. Prosecutors said he hurled defiance at federal law.
When the Arkansas insurance commissioner weighed the merits of a hospital’s billing complaint against United Healthcare, her interactions with one of the nation’s largest health insurers extended far beyond her department’s hearing room.
In a surprise announcement Friday afternoon, Gov. Christie and legislative leaders said they had reached a deal to raise New Jersey's gasoline tax by 23 cents a gallon.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sue Minter wants to expand the cap-and-trade program to gasoline, a move that added 11 cents to the price of a gallon of gas in California.
Burlington County's new ban against hiring "double dippers" may be the first of its kind in New Jersey, according to county officials, who say the purpose is to cut out pension abuse.
Even before one of its trains crashed in Hoboken Terminal on Thursday morning, killing one woman and injuring more than 100 others, New Jersey Transit was an agency in distress.
Texas ended its participation in the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program on Friday because of Gov. Greg Abbott's concerns that the federal government couldn't adequately guarantee that none of the newcomers would pose a security threat.
Nearly 7 million workers for California companies will be automatically enrolled in a new state-run retirement program under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
As Wisconsin and Arizona are demonstrating, fiscally sustainable retirement systems aren't an impossible dream.
As states enact new right-to-work laws, organized labor is losing in the legislatures. So it's trying to end-run them in the courts.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state’s education savings account law, ruling that while the premise of using taxpayer money for private education was constitutional, the method used to fund the ESA program was not.
California will overhaul its election system beginning in 2018 so that voters have more options on when and where to cast their ballots in future elections, under a bill Gov. Jerry Brown signed Thursday.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided that Act 13, the state Legislature's 2012 attempt to accommodate the shale gas industry is an unconstitutional "special law" that benefits specific groups or industries.
She called police because her brother was "not acting like himself."
The mundane rituals of the daily commute exploded into a chaotic scene of ripped metal, tumbling steel beams and screaming riders early Thursday as an NJ Transit train from Bergen County plowed through a barrier at the Hoboken train station, killing a Hoboken woman, injuring more than 100 and sparking a federal investigation that will try to answer why the train failed to stop.
The nation’s largest health insurer and the University of California Health system are joining forces to create a new health plan option for employers and expand research into patient data.
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