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Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried to reset how he's handled the most severe crisis of his tenure, giving a determined and at times emotional speech to the City Council on Wednesday in which he pledged to finally end Chicago's entrenched practice of police brutality and apologized for failing to fix the deep-seated issue sooner.
Former D.C. mayor Vincent C. Gray will not be charged after a years-long federal probe into the illegal financing of his 2010 campaign, as prosecutors announced the end of the investigation Wednesday.
The future of affirmative action at public universities appeared in some doubt Wednesday as the Supreme Court justices debated for a second time whether to strike down a race-based admissions policy at the University of Texas.
Almost 14 years ago, the U.S. House of Representatives voted by a huge, bipartisan margin to pass the No Child Left Behind Act, which put the federal government front and center when it came to how K-12 schools measured student performance and fixed struggling schools.
The organization is spending $42 million to help the selected cities improve their performance and services using data-driven decisionmaking.
Much of the talk in Paris is about bringing capital to bear on climate change. That would have a profound effect on our urban economies.
By spiking in later years, pension benefits don't align with experience. We need to be fairer to educators who are learning their craft.
California recently revealed that it paid billions in fees to private equity managers, leading several other state pension systems to call for more transparency in such investments.
Michael Nutter accused the businessman of taking “a page from the playbook of Hitler” in his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination,
The nation’s growing diversity is not reflected in state legislatures. Nationwide, African-Americans, who make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, account for 9 percent of state legislators. Latinos, who are 17 percent of the population, only account for 5 percent of state legislators.
Last month, voters in America's fourth biggest city rejected a gay rights law. This month, they elected a new mayor dedicated to expanding government services.
Gov. Mike Pence said Tuesday he will not block a Syrian refugee family from receiving state aid such as food stamps and health care, even as he continues to oppose its relocation to Indiana.
Cities and towns across Illinois will soon receive an infusion of cash to operate 911 centers, plow roads and train firefighters under a measure the Senate sent Gov. Bruce Rauner and he quickly signed Monday.
Democratic lawmakers -- with no Republican votes --passed a bill Tuesday that cuts corporate taxes and slices $350 million in spending to balance the state's $20 billion budget in the current fiscal year.
In his final hours as governor, Steve Beshear Monday night granted 201 pardons and six commutations to people sentenced for a range of offenses, including 10 women sentenced for violent crimes they committed after suffering years of domestic violence.
Should children and noncitizens count in drawing political districts?
The FBI’s system for tracking fatal police shootings is a “travesty,” and the agency will replace it by 2017, dramatically expanding the information it gathers on violent police encounters in the United States, a senior FBI official said Tuesday.
Particularly during a recession, a county's ability to attract and retain residents depends largely on what industries drive its economy.
As coastal communities are confronted with increasingly costly storms, they are turning to buyouts, to create natural buffers along the coast and help protect nearby neighborhoods and businesses from flooding.
The Iowa Republican, who's been in office through three economic downturns, surpasses the 18th-century governor who previously held the title.
At least seven states could vote either way in next year's presidential election, but that number may be even higher. If it is, Democrats should worry.
Thanks to a change in federal law, states are moving away from stringent reporting requirements that can keep low-wage parents from working.
A neighborhood zoning administrator says the manager constitutes the violation, not the zombie dolls within it.
The "Voter Accountability and Transparency Act" would change state law to require that the financial statements all candidates are required to file include credit scores.
Because of the importance of churches in African-American communities, Alameda County has focused specifically on churches, inviting religious leaders to discussions about mental health and funding workshops to help congregants reach out to one another.
A visibly disgusted Gov. Charlie Baker condemned fellow Republican Donald Trump's call for a "complete and total ban" on Muslims entering the U.S. yesterday, even as new details emerged that Islamic extremists have considered using the refugee program to infiltrate the country.
The Supreme Court took up a bitter dispute Monday between the state of California and an inventor it says moved to Nevada in the early 1990s to avoid paying taxes.
After a day of celebration Tuesday on becoming Kentucky's 62nd governor, Republican Matt Bevin faces the stark reality of governing a challenged state.
Connecticut's governor, Dannel P. Malloy, has been auditioning for this moment.
The U.S. Justice Department announced a civil rights investigation Monday into the use of deadly force by Chicago cops, prompting Mayor Rahm Emanuel to make what just days ago would have been considered a stunning admission: He needs the federal government's help to clean up his police department.
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