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The Supreme Court gave an apparent green light Monday to lawmakers who want to restrict the sale of guns such as the rapid-fire weapons that have been used in the recent wave of mass shootings from Paris to San Bernardino, Calif.
Over the last decade 49 states experienced a drop in the per-capita rate of delinquents required to live at correctional centers and group homes. But North Dakota saw an 18 percent rise during this period.
Robert Patton is leaving as director of Oklahoma Department of Corrections after controversy over bungled executions of condemned inmates.
The city has a new green "bike box," designed to improve safety and give cyclists a head start against motorists.
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State legislators receive a relatively modest base salary of $24,140 but the lawmakers' average total compensation runs about $60,000 a year.
This time, the vote in Congress to send a bill repealing the Affordable Care Act to President Barack Obama's desk was supposed to be easy.
The state pension fund is more than doubling investments in clean energy and sustainability, including a new $2 billion fund that will put more money behind green energy and less in companies responsible for large emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said Friday.
It is a system seemingly designed to fail.
The U.S. Department of Justice will open a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the Chicago Police Department after the release of a video showing a patrolman's fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald and police reports from the officers on the scene that conflict with that video.
The massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., now being investigated as a terrorist attack, has reshaped the political debate in an election that strategists in both parties had thought would be fought primarily over domestic policy.
Since 1993, 11 people have been killed in abortion-related attacks — doctors, clinic staff, and last week, a police officer and two visitors in the line of fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.
Rather than relying on aggressive policing and incarceration, these tools could help us find better ways help those left behind.
We need to be better prepared for the attacks that are happening every day. Above all, that means we need to collaborate.
Under new policy if a home or business has a rooftop solar system, most of the wattage isn't included in the ambitious requirement to generate half of the state's electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind by 2030.
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider allowing a Puerto Rico law that would let its debt-ridden public utilities restructure their obligations.
Pacifist Klansmen and gay-tolerant anti-Islamists fight in this Dallas suburb, which rarely saw public dissent beyond a split City Council vote until recently. Residents are having trouble keeping up with all the counter-protests and counter-counter-protests.
This approach inspires innovation and helps build tools that people actually enjoy using.
New DEA rules in 2014 allow pharmacies to collect unwanted controlled substances; some state and local officials want drugmakers to pay for drug disposals.
All levels of government experienced weak job growth, while the private sector expanded five times faster.
Democrats in the state Legislature could not override Gov. Chris Christie's veto of gun-control legislation. The bill would have made it more difficult for people with a history of mental illness to expunge such records for the purpose of buying a firearm.
Jeffrey Beard, secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, has announced he plans to retire.
Forty Kansas State University distinguished professors have signed a letter to the Legislature, seeking to halt the plan to allow concealed weapons on campus, the university reported Wednesday.
The city will not ask voters to approve a plan to finance the construction of a new professional football stadium on downtown's north riverfront.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday reversed his opposition to a possible U.S. Justice Department review of the Chicago Police Department's practices, the type of investigation that has led to federal court oversight and sweeping reforms in other troubled, big-city police departments throughout the country.
The U.S. Postal Service has warned newspapers that it is a felony to mail material that includes marijuana advertising.
At the federal level, there's little to no movement to change the nation's gun laws one way or the other.
Thirty-five investors who lost nearly $20 million in South Dakota’s EB-5 program sued the state Wednesday, accusing the state and its agents of committing fraud and misrepresenting the viability of a $120 million beef packing plant.
Planned Parenthood gets most of the attention in the abortion debate. But independent clinics and their employees actually provide the majority of abortions in America -- and are more at-risk.
States are trying to figure out how to regulate and tax fantasy sports sites like FanDuel and DraftKings.
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