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A lawsuit by supporters of Bernie Sanders seeking more time and information from election officials for independent voters -- the bloc crucial to the Vermont senator's presidential hopes in next week's California primary -- failed Wednesday to impress a federal judge, who called the suit tardy, misdirected and meritless.
The Baker administration is reversing a Deval Patrick-era policy that barred the state police from detaining undocumented immigrants at the request of federal immigration officials in a major policy shift officials say is intended to capture dangerous convicts living in the country illegally.
With Opa-locka on the edge of bankruptcy, Gov. Rick Scott declared a financial emergency for the city on Wednesday, calling for a special oversight board to take over the city's finances and stem the bleeding that has led to crippling debts and cutbacks that have impacted every level of government
City officials in Chicago plan to release videos, reports and other materials next week from about 100 police incidents, including officer-involved shootings, as part of an effort to improve public trust in Chicago police, according to a memo obtained Friday by the Chicago Tribune.
Federal authorities said Wednesday that they would not pursue civil rights charges against two Minneapolis police officers in the shooting death of Jamar Clark, a decision met with both outrage and resignation by activists who for months have demanded prosecution.
Lawmakers lashed out at the state Supreme Court and each other Wednesday but left Topeka without addressing the court's order to fix inequities in school funding by June 30 or risk closure of the state's schools.
A 31-year-old woman from Honduras, a nation ravaged by the Zika virus, gave birth to a baby girl suffering from the devastating effects of the virus on Tuesday at Hackensack University Medical Center, the first believed to be born with microcephaly in the continental United States, her physician said.
<i>The Week in Politics</i>: Dems' Fightin' Words, Plus How Term Limits May Actually Help Incumbents
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
From coast to coast, governments are teaming up with nonprofits to fight one of the most common yet most preventable kinds of cancer.
An environmental assessment from two federal agencies released Friday determined that fracking off the coast of California causes no significant impact, thus lifting a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing that was instituted earlier this year.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office announced Wednesday that the state will join a legal challenge to the Obama administration's directive to local schools on the rights of transgender students.
A Cook County judge ruled in favor of the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday by declaring that Mayor Rahm Emanuel's emails, texts and other communications are not exempt from disclosure simply because they are transmitted over private devices.
The Philadelphia School District will add two Muslim holidays to its calendar, placing it among the first in the nation to do so.
Political leaders agreed Friday to extend Illinois' medical marijuana pilot program to July 2020 and added post-traumatic stress disorder and terminal illness as qualifying conditions.
The federal appeals court for Virginia on Tuesday denied the Gloucester County School Board's request for a review of its recent ruling in the lawsuit filed by 16-year-old transgender student Gavin Grimm.
California Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday he will vote for Hillary Clinton in the state's upcoming primary, explaining that she has the best chance of thwarting the "dangerous candidacy" of Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday took action in two death penalty cases, rejecting a broad constitutional challenge to capital punishment from Louisiana and reversing a death sentence from Arizona.
Before the Kansas Legislature adjourned in Topeka early this month, lawmakers passed a budget that let the governor sort out the details of where to cut spending.
Approximate education requirements, occupational employment and wage data for all metro areas.
Legislative attempts to tax nonprofits have fallen short. But recent legal challenges could present a financial problem for nonprofits and a financial boost for governments.
The Texas Supreme Court has strengthened protections for landowners who don’t have rights to the water underneath their property.
The National Hurricane Center will launch storm surge inundation maps for the first time this summer, predicting where and how deep flooding will hit here and elsewhere.
Ruling in the case of an Eastern Iowa teenager who killed his grandparents, the Iowa Supreme Court has concluded that sentencing a juvenile offender to life without the possibility of parole violates the state constitution.
The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday vacated its ruling last September that refused to recognize a same-sex adoption from Georgia and denied visitation rights to one of the lesbian mothers.
State lawmakers dealt a surprise loss to Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday when a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to override his veto of a bill to provide Chicago with financial relief in paying for police and fire pensions.
The state has taken over a struggling health insurance cooperative based in Westerville that was set up to be a lower-cost option for Ohioans who shop the federally run health insurance marketplace.
As states begin stepping in to fill a void left by private employers, there are management challenges to keep in mind.
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