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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.
A Miami-Dade judge has ruled that Florida's death penalty is unconstitutional because jurors are not required to agree unanimously on execution, a decision certain to spur more legal wrangling over Florida's capital punishment system.
Donald Trump's announcement Monday that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a friend and early endorser, will head his transition team puts Christie back at the center of national politics -- and gives him a lead role in shaping a potential Trump presidency.
Alaska's House of Representatives has filed an appeal in state Supreme Court to halt Medicaid expansion by Gov. Bill Walker's administration.
The day he was sworn in as Ferguson's new chief, Delrish Moss said that his pursuit of a high-ranking position in a police department had a personal motivation: He wanted to fire bad cops like the ones who abused him.
The Justice Department sued North Carolina on Monday to stop what it called discrimination against transgender individuals, raising the stakes in a cultural and legal battle that has ramifications for other states and the 2016 election.
The city is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help keep certain neighborhoods affordable. But it might be making things worse.
Shrinking competition has many states worried about rising insurance prices. California has the tools to handle it better than most.
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that private prearranged discussion of public business, whether in person or electronically, is a violation of the Ohio Open Meetings Act if the discussion involves a majority of a public body's members.
The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an Oregon law setting a $3 million cap on the amount of damages that injured people can collect in lawsuits against the state or its employees.
The Judicial Inquiry Commission Friday charged Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore with violating ethical rules, over his attempt earlier this year to stop probate judges from issuing same-sex marriage licenses.
Seeking to beat back a chronic staffing shortage, the head of the state prison system announced a $10 million-a-year plan Thursday to raise wages by 80 cents an hour for thousands of workers, with some of them temporarily receiving more than that.
Long-awaited federal rules announced Thursday that will ban e-cigarette sales to minors and require safety reviews for vaping products were greeted with outrage from the industry and applause from many, but not all, health advocates.
The hunt for loyal delegates to the Republican National Convention — for weeks, a shadow primary that threatened to wrest the nomination away from Donald Trump — appears to have come to an end.
With the workforce and workplace changing rapidly, human resources needs to become a strategic partner.
We talk a lot about "procurement reform." Instead, we should be looking at government purchasing through the lens of economics and how markets really work.
As we turn marijuana into a legal, lucrative business, we need to make sure that minorities get a big piece of it.
The economy added the fewest jobs last month since September. But there is a bright spot in the report.
A spirit of bipartisanship dominated Gov. Mike Pence's appearance with predecessor and former Sen. Evan Bayh on Thursday at Indiana State University, but reporters didn't let them leave the stage without addressing presidential politics.
In a surprise change of heart, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez dropped her opposition Thursday to a special prosecutor in the killing of Laquan McDonald and said her office would withdraw from the bombshell case.
Florida's new death penalty law went on trial Thursday in the Supreme Court as a Death Row inmate asked for a life sentence, the state called for his execution, and a justice who's often part of a five-member court majority questioned the law's constitutionality.
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