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The California bullet train has won a court victory in a key lawsuit that sought to stop the $64-billion project because it allegedly violated restrictions voters imposed in 2008.
Just after 5 a.m. Wednesday, sleep-deprived Republican senators were huddled behind closed doors.
Republicans play offense in three states, while Democrats have a shot at flipping one seat.
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The steps Louisville is taking to financially empower its public employees and its citizens point the way.
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
A first-of-its-kind bill to regulate both daily and seasonlong fantasy football, basketball and baseball contests, among others, has been signed into law in Virginia.
At a packed Travis County GOP executive committee meeting Tuesday night, it took less than a minute for someone to acknowledge the elephant not in the room.
In a legislative showdown between LGBT advocates and religious groups, Democrats in the Missouri state Senate staged a marathon filibuster Tuesday to stop a constitutional amendment that would allow businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriage ceremonies.
A cross section of California leaders in business, education, law enforcement and religion joined Tuesday in urging the Supreme Court to uphold President Barack Obama's plan to offer temporary relief and work permits to as many as 5 million immigrants who have been living in the U.S. illegally.
Nine 17-year-olds, including one from Toledo, sued Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted Tuesday over his office's refusal to allow them to vote in the presidential race in next week's primary election.
John Kasich failed to achieve even his lowered goal of finishing second in Michigan, but his team was jazzed by a new national poll showing him ascending into the thick of the competition.
A federal appeals court on Monday partially granted a motion to stay an order of the Federal Communications Commission lowering a cap on the rates that can be charged for inmate phone calls by 65 percent.
A new report details revenue projections for each state, showing that many will have sizable budget shortfalls to close.
The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act is just a Senate vote away from the president's desk.
His tenure was marked with disappointment, embarrassment and little to brag about. But his anti-tax stance helped him politically.
Modeled after a successful anti-recidivism program, Kansas has a new volunteer mentoring program to help people on welfare find work.
Weeks after the Texas attorney general declared that games offered by popular daily fantasy sports sites violate Texas laws against gambling, a major player in the business has agreed to stop taking paid contest entries -- and another has decided to press its case in the courts.
Bills to make overdose reversal drugs more widely available and to curb overprescription of opioid drugs were signed into law Friday by Gov. Susana Martinez.
A new class-action lawsuit filed Monday, March 7 over the city's water crisis is seeking damages for those injured from exposure to the introduction of lead and other substances.
Texas health officials have asked a prominent academic journal to take the state's name off a published finding that Texas women lost access to health care services after lawmakers kicked Planned Parenthood out of a family planning program.
The California Assembly swore in a new speaker Monday who pledged to make poverty reduction, increased government oversight and voter turnout his key priorities.
The U.S. Supreme Court in a victory for gay rights ruled Monday that states must honor adoptions by same-sex parents who move across state lines.
Billionaire Medford native and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ruled out an independent run for president yesterday, voicing concerns his candidacy would hand the White House to either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.
Press Release on survey results of a Governing Institute survey of elected appointed officials about cyber security.
Many governors and mayors are struggling to raise the minimum wage for their jurisdictions. In the meantime, some are giving their own employees a raise.
The Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services told state agencies to prepare for an additional 4 percent cut of their annual state allocations.
As far as Sedgwick resident and locally sourced food advocate Deborah Evans is concerned, everyone should have the right to choose their own food, whether it’s from the farmer down the road or from the local supermarket.
The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday dismissed motions and petitions in a lawsuit seeking to ban same-sex marriage in Alabama.
Saying John Kasich was an "action hero" who "kicked some serious butt" in Washington before, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed him Sunday for a return engagement.
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