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Hillary Clinton's running mate is one of the few people in American history to serve as a mayor, governor and U.S. senator. (Oh yeah, he was also a city council member.)
New York is set to become the first state to require schools to regularly test their water for lead. But it's far from the only place with the problem.
At a time when the job of elections administration is becoming more complex and more scrutinized, a major university has started formal training.
Two teenagers walked into McGuckin Hardware in downtown Boulder, Colorado, grabbed a $600 power saw, and shoved it into a backpack, only to be apprehended by a security guard in the parking lot.
Jennifer Winn said she planted 70 campaign signs in Haysville last week, thinking they would be protected by a new state law requiring cities and counties to let campaigns post yard signs on street rights-of-way.
A top ally of Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner abruptly resigned from the Illinois House on Sunday, citing "cyber security issues" that also prompted him to delete his social media accounts.
Nevada's Department of Corrections is changing a series of policies and practices that the U.S. Justice Department says illegally discriminate against prison inmates with HIV by housing them separately and denying access to work assignments that can speed their release.
The Hillary Clinton campaign, responding to leaked internal Democratic Party emails that threatened to revive tensions with Sen. Bernie Sanders' followers, moved quickly to squelch the problem Sunday as the party's embattled chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, announced she would step down at the end of the convention week.
Governors are rarely VP picks, yet Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both selected one for the increasingly powerful office.
The latest employment estimates show the biggest gains in the West.
In a ruling with strong implications for the Nov. 8 presidential election in Michigan, a federal judge on Thursday blocked Michigan's recent ban on straight-party voting, saying the change would result in longer lines and wait times at polling places and that it would disadvantage black voters the most.
A measure to exempt state and local sales taxes on tampons and other feminine hygiene products was signed into law Thursday by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. New York joins 10 other states with such sales tax exemptions.
Instead of working to solve problems like underfunded pensions, too often we spend our time and energy pointing fingers.
We ought to be doing what many other countries are doing: making far more use of public-private partnerships for infrastructure.
By making the most of their influence over postsecondary education, they can help narrow the skills gap.
The Obama administration went to court Thursday to block two major health insurance mergers, siding with consumer advocates and medical groups worried that the consolidation of large national health plans could lead to higher premiums.
Attorney General Maura Healey stepped up the ban on military-looking rifles yesterday, prompting licensed gun enthusiasts to flood gun shops on what they believed might be the last day to buy AR-style guns here.
A Cook County judge on Wednesday tossed from the fall ballot a constitutional amendment to take away the General Assembly's power to draw legislative district boundaries, dealing a loss to Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and a win to Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is in the spotlight this week as the man Donald Trump has picked to be his running mate.
The NBA announced late Thursday afternoon that it is moving the 2017 All-Star Weekend out of Charlotte, in reaction to concerns with the North Carolina law known as House Bill 2.
The tests found something fishy in the water.
Governments at all levels are finding better ways to provide fiscal transparency. But there's a lot more that they could do.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Fed up with the rising number of opiate overdoses in Western Pennsylvania, an Allegheny County judge is making convicted drug dealers buy lifesaving naloxone kits for the communities where they've sold drugs.
It’s summer 2017. The governor’s radical vision for Vermont’s portion of the interstate highway system, a cornerstone initiative for the new administration, has fallen into place.
It was 3 a.m. on a November Sunday, and the car had just turned left onto Adams Street in Newark, N.J. Al-Sharif Scriven was in the front passenger seat, a .40 caliber handgun under his jacket, with hollow-nose bullets and a large-capacity magazine stowed elsewhere in the car.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Wednesday night told the crowd of delegates and guests at the Republican National Convention that he accepts the party's nomination to run and serve as vice president of the United States.
Texas’ voter identification law violates the U.S. law prohibiting racial discrimination in elections, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
There's something wrong when many California public university students can't get enough to eat while campus presidents' compensation is soaring.
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