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Texas has violated the constitutional rights of foster children by exposing them to an unreasonable risk of harm in a system where children "often age out of care more damaged than when they entered," a federal judge ruled Thursday.
After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials to close every single school in the county as a safety precaution.
Imagine for a moment that you're a member of a city council and you are really peeved at Donald Trump's recent idea to ban Muslim immigrants 1) because you don't agree with the idea and 2) what he said risks undermining all your hard work to build ties to your city's Muslim community.
The conviction and incarceration of former Secretary of State Dianna Duran is the latest in a long history of scandals. Lawmakers are pushing ethics reforms, but some doubt change will come.
A health law insurance program that was expected to boost consumer choice and competition on the marketplaces has slipped off course and is so far failing to meet expectations.
The administration of Gov. Bill Walker missed a legal deadline Tuesday to file the state's annual financial report, and it blames a new accounting rule for the problem.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Chicago Public Schools will pay $280,000 in damages and back pay as part of an agreement to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought against the district by the federal government last year.
Colwyn, Pa., is a perfect example of what happens when virtually every aspect of local government breaks down.
Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke has been formally indicted on six counts of first-degree murder and one count of official misconduct for fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, the Chicago Tribune has learned.
An appeals court panel on Tuesday refused to revive a lawsuit brought by two civil rights groups challenging Arizona's law banning abortions based on the race or sex of the child.
An arrest warrant for a city councilor in Birmingham, Alabama, who was involved in a fight with the mayor that sent both men to the hospital was withdrawn on Wednesday, officials said.
After years of testing, California has taken its first step toward putting cars that can drive themselves into the hands of its citizens.
New York has agreed to a major overhaul in the way solitary confinement is administered in the state’s prisons, with the goal of significantly reducing the number of inmates held in isolation, cutting the maximum length of stay and improving their living conditions.
A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case of Baltimore Police Officer William G. Porter after jurors said they had failed to reach an agreement on any of the charges against him in the death of Freddie Gray.
The Federal Reserve is raising short-term interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade.
Increases in retirees' longevity are likely to make an already dismal fiscal picture look worse.
Brazil's largest city is embarking on an ambitious experiment to educate its public employees on the benefits of transparency.
High schools across the United States are graduating students at an all-time-high rate of 82.3 percent.
Two bottom-tier Republican presidential candidates have missed the filing deadline for the Texas primary.
The Delaware governor, who has led the Democratic and National governors associations, talks about workforce development, the state of governors, the future of his party and more.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that he is extending the deployment of National Guard troops at the southern border to combat the dramatic increase in young migrants caught crossing into the U.S.
A new Wisconsin law that provides a time-saving and waste-slashing process for doctors to be licensed in multiple states will expand health-care access in rural areas and, eventually, help curb rising costs throughout the country, proponents say.
Maryland residents may now buy a lifesaving nasal spray used to reverse a heroin overdose without a prescription.
Judge Barry G. Williams on Tuesday ordered a deadlocked jury back to work, asking them to try harder to reach a consensus on Officer William G. Porter's guilt or innocence in the death of Freddie Gray.
Although Florida saw a drop in 2015 in both the number of death-row inmates executed and the number of criminals sentenced to death, findings from a national nonprofit research organization show the Sunshine State continues to be an "outlier" in its administration of capital punishment.
A crudely written email threat to members of the Los Angeles Board of Education prompted officials to close all 900 schools in the nation's second-largest school system Tuesday, sending parents scrambling to find day care _ while New York law enforcement dismissed a nearly identical threat from the same sender as an obvious hoax.
In guiding the transformation, governments need to be in the driver's seat.
For three years, Jesse Ancira Jr. has juggled being a mayor and the top adviser to one of his state's most powerful politicians.
A few cities recently lowered the voting age to 16 for local elections. The idea has been debated for years but now appears to have some momentum.
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