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A state-by-state breakdown of the 14 upcoming elections shows where Democrats can take a few seats from Republicans.
The amount of campaign funds that 41 elected New York officials have spent on legal fees in connection to scandals or criminal investigations.
Dana Cope, the former longtime head of the 55,000-member State Employees Association of North Carolina, was indicted Monday on felony charges that he took $570,000 of the organization's money and spent it on flight lessons, landscaping, home appliances, vacations and other unauthorized purchases.
Federal agents met with Baltimore Police Department homicide detectives Monday to begin a two-month partnership with the goal of curbing this summer's record pace of violence.
A federal judge in Danville said Friday that Virginia can stop issuing license plates with Confederate battle flag emblems.
With its new two-year budget in place, Wisconsin now has passed up more than $550 million in federal money available under the Affordable Care Act.
Dozens of inmates at a Utah state prison entered the fourth day of a hunger strike Monday, hoping to force corrections officials to improve conditions for maximum-security inmates who, civil rights activists say, face extremely restrictive living conditions.
A federal judge ruled Monday that an Idaho law making it illegal to secretly film animal abuse at agricultural facilities violates the right to free speech.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D- NY) and his cousin, actress-comedian Amy Schumer, teamed up Monday to revive a gun control movement that faltered in Congress after the Dec. 2012 Newtown massacre.
When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted on three felony charges alleging securities law violations last week, he joined a long list of Texas politicians who have faced indictments.
If the rule survives the inevitable legal challenges, it will mark the first time the federal government limits air pollution from carbon dioxide.
What's shaping up to be a bad year for pension plans could give ammunition to politicians who want to change how they work and cut employee benefits.
Oliver Sellers-Garcia, the director of sustainability and environment for Somerville, Mass., which aims to be carbon-free in the next 35 years.
More than 48,000 Arkansans have lost or are on the verge of losing coverage under the private option or traditional Medicaid — the vast majority of them because they did not respond quickly to a mailed notice, a development some officials have called surprising and troubling.
Groups of state lawmakers have been meeting to weigh their options, including looking at new taxes, cuts and transfers of money from the Education Trust Fund to the General Fund.
It was a stubborn, quick wildfire, but nothing particularly unusual.
On Christmas Day in 2013, Donyelle Hall and her husband, Roland Jr., gave a party for friends and family at their apartment.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the state’s top law enforcement officer, turned himself into jail Monday to be booked on felony securities fraud charges.
Most Americans who signed up for coverage on the federally run health insurance marketplaces had more choice of health plans in 2015 compared with the previous year, and the increased competition helped hold down the growth in premiums, according to a report released Thursday by federal officials.
The latest federal data illustrates how benefits are becoming more costly for states and localities.
More than half of states are funding their public colleges based on outcomes such as graduation rates,
Ten years after Katrina, New Orleans is solving municipal challenges and improving lives.
Judge Steve Leifman of Florida's Miami-Dade County Court, who toured a state psychiatric hospital and witnessed a guard hosing feces off caged, naked men. He later led the effort to overhaul the county's approach to criminal offenders with mental health issues.
Amid a growing controversy over the alleged sale of fetal tissue, Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday called for an investigation of Florida's 16 Planned Parenthood offices that perform abortions.
Backers of an effort to put the question of legalizing marijuana before Ohio voters in November filed nearly 96,000 new signatures Thursday in hopes they'll patch a roughly 30,000-signature hole identified in their prior petitions.
Gov. Sam Brownback will issue $62.6 million in budget cuts and fund transfers to shore up the state's cash reserves, his budget director announced Thursday.
Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday that he will immediately shut down the decrepit Baltimore City Detention Center, moving inmates to nearby facilities and ending a long-standing "black eye" for the state.
Johnny Waller Jr.’s 1998 felony drug conviction has haunted him since the day he left a Nebraska prison in 2001.
With just a day to spare, Congress approved a stopgap measure to fund the federal highway program, sending President Barack Obama the legislation to avert a Friday shutdown of transportation projects nationwide.
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