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One of the first things Chinese immigrant Sau Fung Lam did upon arriving in Chinatown 24 years ago was go to the local grocery store to try to buy an apple.
A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio intentionally violated the judge's orders to end profiling of Latinos 19 times, a decision that raises the possibility he could face criminal charges.
Gov. Robert Bentley Thursday signed two bills restricting abortion clinic locations and banning an abortion procedure.
Kansas public employees who go out into the community will be allowed to carry concealed weapons on the job starting in July.
Republican activists chose party unity over “never Trump” resistance Saturday, with party leaders in one state after another pressuring their members to fall in line behind the presumptive nominee — and even punishing those who refused.
As the editor in chief of The San Francisco Chronicle, Audrey Cooper has overseen countless stories on homelessness.
Cities are learning to mine this trove of information to predict the impact of future events and significantly improve operations.
We know that we could save a lot of money in the future by spending a little now. But we hardly ever do it.
If our communities are going to prosper, we need to do more to end the violence and provide opportunity.
California's schools are going to have to answer for more than just test scores, by the year after next. The state may also judge them on suspension rates, graduation rates, attendance and the rate at which students who are still learning English are becoming proficient.
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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They move more often than most and tend to rent rather than own.
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