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The Texas Supreme Court on Friday issued a ruling upholding the state’s public school funding system as constitutional, while asserting that the state’s more than 5 million students “deserve transformational, top-to-bottom reforms that amount to more than Band-Aid on top of Band-Aid."
With mosquito season weeks away, Pennsylvania officials on Thursday announced how they would confront the Zika virus, including responses to infections picked up in the Caribbean, a scenario that has not mattered so far because there have been no mosquitoes present to carry the virus.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized a new set of rules aimed at battling climate change.
Wading further into a spreading national debate, the Obama administration will tell all public school districts across the nation Friday that they should allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.
The Montana Supreme Court has barred state officials from reporting the immigration status of people seeking state services, striking down the last piece of a voter-approved law meant to deter people who are in the U.S. illegally from living and working in Montana.
State election officials ordered the results of Baltimore's primary election decertified Thursday and launched a precinct-level review of irregularities.
House Republicans won Round 2 in a potentially historic lawsuit Thursday when a federal judge declared the Obama administration was unconstitutionally spending money to subsidize health insurers without obtaining an appropriation from Congress.
Disgraced ex-Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, one of Long Island's and New York's most powerful politicians until his sudden fall in a family-affair corruption scandal last year, was sentenced Thursday to a shorter-than-expected 5-year prison term.
More and more, governments are turning to bank loans rather than bonds. But too often the terms of the loans -- and who is first in line to collect -- are secret.
Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a bill to close a loophole in the state's open records act that allowed public officials to use private e-mail accounts to avoid scrutiny.
While Nashville has now seen a second group cancel its planned national convention next year over Tennessee's new law letting therapists reject LGBT patients, Chattanooga officials say they have yet to see any impact.
California’s health insurance exchange estimates that its Obamacare premiums may rise 8 percent on average next year, which would end two consecutive years of more modest 4 percent increases.
A special session to enact the 2016-17 state budget will begin next week, despite a lack of consensus in the Legislature on how to close a $270 million budget shortfall, the governor's office announced Monday.
Michael Slager, the former North Charleston white police officer charged with the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American man, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday.
Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have laws on the books requiring health insurers to cover autism treatments.
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The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
Top-of-the-ticket insurgents like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders often show little interest in helping other like-minded candidates win lower offices.
The fiscal problems that afflict Detroit's schools and Illinois' pensions show what happens when elected officials wait too long to act.
To tackle the problem of vacant properties, Memphis is acknowledging that it needs help.
They move more often than most and tend to rent rather than own.
Over the past decade, legislators in several states have sought to expand or reduce the number of justices on their highest courts. In some cases, they admit their intent to tilt the ideological balance.
An ongoing, two-monthlong shutdown of the only fuel pipeline between Milwaukee and Green Bay has pushed more fuel tanker trucks onto main highways and prompted Gov. Scott Walker to declare an energy emergency.
Jim Justice -- coal operator, resort owner, political newcomer and West Virginia's richest man -- won the Democratic primary for governor Tuesday, riding a campaign message of optimism and personal business success, fueled by millions of dollars of his own money.
Kansas is suspending its work on a plan for complying with federal regulations meant to combat climate change by reducing carbon emissions from power plants.
Advocates say a new Maryland law will place the state at the forefront of efforts to require insurance plans to offer birth control at no out-of-pocket cost, expanding access to women and men who want to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell on Monday kicked off a contest to design a medical bill that is “simpler, cleaner, and easier for patients to understand.”
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick continued his attack on Fort Worth school leader Kent Scribner over his transgender bathroom policy, saying the superintendent is not a "social engineer" and should focus on education.
Nowhere are tax incentives more complicated -- and some say pointless -- than in Kansas City.
The Hoosier State is the latest to use behavioral science or "nudge" experiments to improve outcomes in human services programs.
California's historic drought is bound to come to an end. But the conservation efforts that have become habit for many after four dry years aren't likely to go away -- the governor is making sure of that.
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