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Cancer patients insured by California’s health plan for low-income people are less likely to get recommended treatment and also have lower survival rates than patients with other types of insurance, according to a new study by University of California-Davis researchers.
Bill Wilson can't stand the smell of marijuana. He said he's anti-drug and anti-alcohol, yet there he was Monday, buying medical cannabis on the first day it was authorized by Illinois law.
New York's attorney general ordered popular daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel Tuesday to stop accepting bets in the state, saying their operations amount to illegal gambling.
Colorado voters will decide next year whether this state should be the first to pay for comprehensive health care for residents.
Arizona lawmakers who hoped to build miles of fencing along the border with Mexico using private money are pulling the plug on the project after nearly five years.
The Obama administration said Tuesday it will ask the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling and to back White House efforts to shield more than 4 million immigrants from deportation.
The count ruled Friday that the Bureau of Motor Vehicle's process of reviewing and approving personalized license plates does not violate the Constitution because license plates are a form of government speech -- one that is controlled by the state, not a private citizen's speech protected by the First Amendment.
Gov. Tom Wolf and Republican legislators indicated Monday that they had reached a tentative agreement on key pieces of the state's long-overdue spending plan.
California corrections officials proposed a new one-drug execution protocol Friday in an effort to conform to a judge's order nearly a decade ago that ruled the state's three-drug lethal injection method unconstitutional, but experts say it doesn't mean the resumption of capital punishment any time soon.
After a remarkable and swift revolt by students and faculty centered largely on matters of race, the leaders of the University Missouri System and its flagship campus both stepped down from their jobs within hours of each other on Monday.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, under fire from Democrats and their allies for cuts to popular social service programs, moved to lift those political pressure points Monday from a broader effort to win his pro-business, union-weakening legislative agenda.
Gov. Christie on Monday vetoed legislation that was intended to stabilize Atlantic City's finances, declaring that it failed "to recognize the true path to economic revitalization and fiscal stability."
Gov. Christie on Monday vetoed legislation that would have brought sweeping changes to the state's voting laws, panning the bill as "thinly veiled political gamesmanship."
A federal appeals court dealt a severe and possibly fatal blow Monday to President Barack Obama's executive actions to allow up to 5 million immigrants living illegally in the United States to stay and obtain work permits.
The percent of American households with children has slowly declined over the past decade.
By embracing the latest advances in connectivity, farms are reaping big benefits. What's needed more than ever is better rural broadband.
The Kentucky governor's race is just the latest example of how election polls have become less accurate, more expensive and harder to gauge public opinion.
Dixon cops fast-track a user into treatment if he or she comes to them asking for help. The idea is quickly catching on among departments in the Chicago area.
Critics point out that the Ohio governor's proposals would do nothing to pollution.
In all, 11 states received failing grades of F in a study of state ethics and transparency laws by the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity.
Three after George W. Bush restricted the use of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, California started its own multi-billion dollar stem cell program. Today at least seven states offer stem cell research funding or other incentives to local scientists and industry.
These nine outstanding state and local government leaders have taken decisive action to address some of the toughest, most entrenched problems in the country.
Over the past 30 years, there have only been a handful of elections where a governor made a difference in a caucus or primary outcome.
After days of speculation, a Michigan insurer -- a one-of-a-kind entity in Michigan created under federal health reform -- is pulling its business from the state's online marketplace.
State employees can no longer direct a portion of their paychecks to Planned Parenthood or the Clinton Foundation, after a state panel decided to remove the groups from the state's charitable giving program.
To avoid confusion and uncertainty, the state’s 2016 elections for Congress and the Texas House will proceed under the current political maps, a three-judge federal panel in San Antonio said late Friday.
Hamtramck residents have elected a Muslim majority to the city's six-member city council, symbolizing the demographic changes that have transformed the city once known for being a Polish Catholic enclave.
Confronting the consequences of high-priced drugs, the Obama administration Thursday pointedly reminded states that they cannot legally restrict access by low-income people to revolutionary cures for liver-wasting hepatitis C infection.
As Republicans across the country mount an aggressive effort to tighten voting laws, a group of former aides to President Obama and President Bill Clinton is pledging to counter by spending up to $10 million on a push to make voter registration automatic whenever someone gets a driver’s license.
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