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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a case that centers on how Texas draws its political districts, a longtime point of dispute between the state and voting rights advocates.
As the sun came up Tuesday, just hours after an overnight torrent that flooded highways and inundated neighborhoods, greater Houston faced yet one more painful recovery brought on by its occasionally lethal mix of climate and topography.
The Obama administration suffered another immigration setback Tuesday, as a divided federal appeals court declined to lift a injunction imposed by a Texas-based trial judge.
Missouri legislators -- led by recipients of Smithfield Foods' political donations -- pushed through a controversial, last-minute measure to allow up to 1 percent of Missouri's agricultural land to come under foreign ownership. Now Shuanghui International of Hong Kong legally own the company's Missouri land. How did that happen?
Physician-assisted suicide is only legal in five states. But it still happens in the other 45 states.
Hamid Khan, co-founder of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, arguing that police surveillance is becoming a form of social control.
After a month of discussion over whether to attach a bill requiring public universities and colleges to allow concealed handguns on their campuses to another piece of gun legislation — an effort to squeeze the controversial measure through — House lawmakers opted to consider the bill, Senate Bill 11, on its own.
Electricity production at some hydropower plants is expected to be less than 20 percent of normal because of low water levels.
Critics say Nestle shouldn't be allowed to profit from a natural resource as drought spreads across the state.
Freddie Gray's neighborhood needs financial help, but who will pay?
A staff member at Chopticon High School in St. Mary’s County, Md., describing the cleanup of the students' senior prank that released 72,000 ladybugs inside the school. Police charged the students with burglary.
Danielle Meitiv, who was recently cleared of neglect in one of two investigations by Maryland Child Protective Services after she let her children (ages 10 and 6) walk home alone from a park. The Meitiv's decision sparked a national debate about "free range" parenting.
On a day that brought a new round of fierce thunderstorms and torrential rains, authorities continued a grim search Monday for 12 people still missing after being swept from riverfront homes, and property owners returned to dramatic scenes of destruction.
Democratic Speaker Michael Madigan's effort to ask voters to approve a measure to impose higher income taxes on millionaires failed in the House on Thursday, but provides the powerful Southwest Side politician ammunition to attack Republicans in next year's legislative campaigns.
When Gov. Peter Shumlin signed physician-assisted suicide into law in 2013, he had no idea a member of a family he has known most of his life would be one of the first Vermonters to use the option.
Gov. Larry Hogan took out his veto pen Friday, rejecting a bill that would allow felons to vote as soon as they leave prison rather than waiting to finish parole or probation.
With the number of new diagnoses of HIV in Scott County tapering off, Gov. Mike Pence will not renew an executive public health emergency order to help address the situation when the order expires Sunday, state health officials said Thursday.
The Justice Department and Cleveland officials have agreed to settle a case alleging widespread misconduct by the city's police, the first such agreement reached under the new attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who took office last month.
When California officials struck an unprecedented conservation deal Friday with a group of farmers who have the strongest claims on the state's dwindling water supply, it showed no one was immune from the fallout of the drought.
Atlanta faces the dynamics of development head on as one of the cities chosen in City Accelerator’s Cohort 2.
The number of people, which has doubled since 2003, who have health insurance but are paying so much for deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses that they're considered underinsured.
How much Tennessee recently paid an advertising company to design its new logo that some say "a fifth-grader could easily produce on his or her computer at home."
Republican Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, a likely contender for the 2016 presidential race, who has been criticized by conservatives for supporting tax increases, Medicaid expansion and Common Core.
All too often, policies are simply replicated from state to state with little attention to research showing that they work.
Los Angeles is leading the way with a dashboard that shows the public how the city is doing.
As government pensions become less generous for new hires, automatic enrollment in supplemental savings plans can make a big difference.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
By replacing some career firefighters, local governments could save a lot of money without compromising safety.
Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed the state's education budget Thursday, setting up a special session of the Legislature in the coming weeks.
The House, Senate and Gov. Rick Snyder have agreed to inject $400 million into the states's crumbling roads in the 2015-16 budget year.
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