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Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill this morning that will send $48.7 million to the financially struggling Detroit Public Schools district to ensure that it doesn't run out of cash and be forced to shut its doors next month.
Legislation to block Planned Parenthood from receiving any state funding was vetoed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
No charges will be filed against the two Minneapolis officers involved in the shooting death last fall of Jamar Clark, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Wednesday, citing DNA and other evidence that Clark had a hand on one officer's gun during a struggle and was not handcuffed when shot.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have stumped for Ted Cruz for president, but there's no record he voted in this year's Republican primary in Texas. A spokesman for Perry suggested his ballot may have been lost in the mail.
Countering Connecticut's Tax Proposals, Florida Governor Extends Warm Invitation to Land of Tax Cuts
Maybe Yale's dorms would be replaced with cabanas on Florida's Gulf Coast beach.
In its latest crackdown on school corruption in Detroit, the federal government today dropped a legal bomb on 12 current and former principals, one administrator and a vendor -- all of them charged with running a nearly $1-million bribery and kickback scheme involving school supplies that were rarely ever delivered.
For the second time in a year, Portland city leaders are making a political statement by preparing a travel embargo against a state deemed to have discriminatory laws.
Roy Cooper, the North Carolina attorney general, said Tuesday that his office will not defend state officials and state agencies against the law adopted last week that strikes down locally enacted protections for lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
As city councilors here discussed the local water system recently, Summer Smith, a homeowner, rose to ask a question: “Can you explain in plain English what ‘emergent water conditions’ means? It sounds kind of alarming.”
New research shows certain graduated driver licensing laws result in fewer teens being arrested for nontraffic-related crimes.
<i>The Week in Politics</i>: Legislatures Take On Minimum Wage, Legal Scandals in the South and More
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
Hawaii's decision to end the state's most popular solar incentive program has caused more than a dozen solar companies to close up shop, lay off staff members or cut employee hours, according to a leading industry association.
Two transgender people and a lesbian law professor at N.C. Central University filed a lawsuit in federal court early Monday challenging North Carolina's new law that bans local governments from passing local anti-discrimination ordinances and dictates that transgender residents use the public restrooms of their biological sex.
Gov. Butch Otter Monday ruled out calling a special legislative session or taking action on his own to advance an Idaho-designed, federally-funded health care program for 78,000 poor and uninsured Idahoans.
The governor has signed a bill that makes Utah the first state to require doctors to give anesthesia to women having an abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later.
The Justice Department today announced that it is resuming a controversial practice that allows local police departments to funnel a large portion of assets seized from citizens into their own coffers under federal law.
Reeling for months since the Laquan McDonald shooting put an unflattering national spotlight on the Chicago Police Department, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday took an important step in trying to repair the damage by introducing longtime cop Eddie Johnson, an African-American, as the city's new interim police superintendent.
State Sen. Virgil Smith started serving his 10-month jail sentence today as punishment for shooting his ex-wife's Mercedes-Benz, but he never resigned from his job as a legislator.
The future of our nation's infrastructure requires an innovation intervention.
Other countries teach conflict resolution to at-risk youth as a way to break the cycle of violent retaliation. The idea is slowly catching on in America.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Monday vetoed the "religious liberty" bill that triggered a wave of criticism from gay rights groups and business leaders and presented him with one of the most consequential challenges he's faced since his election to Georgia's top office.
Abortion clinics throughout Florida will go without taxpayer funds, face increased reporting requirements and new hurdles for doctors providing the procedure under a bill signed Friday by Gov. Rick Scott.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed on hearing former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appeal of his conviction and 14-year prison sentence on sweeping corruption charges.
Nowhere are the problems with pension funding more evident than in Kentucky, where the state lost millions because of the stock market. Lawmakers are now debating how to recover.
Leaning forward on a two-seat swing beneath a shady tree, Ricardo Lopez ticked off his lofty political ambitions:
The wildfire in Barber County was declared 81 percent controlled on Sunday evening, according to officials.
A pilot program requiring drug screenings for public assistance applicants will soon start in West Virginia.
After former Gov. Rick Perry issued an executive order in December 2014 mandating the use of E-Verify for state agencies, some lawmakers noted the directive lacked a mechanism to ensure compliance.
California lawmakers have reached a tentative deal with labor groups to increase the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years, a move that could head off a costly fight at the ballot box in November.
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