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Gov. Sam Brownback will sign a welfare reform bill that has gained national attention Thursday morning at the Department for Children and Families service center in Topeka.
Christy Denault leaves Gov. Mike Pence's office after PR disasters with the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act and botched plans to start a state-run news service called JustIN.
Scott Walker backs trade deal, signs research pact on a trip Walker designed to bolster his foreign affairs credentials.
Most cities are failing to tell their fiscal stories well or at all. New York and Chicago, though, offer models of true transparency.
A San Francisco appeals court said it again: Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his deputies can't detain car occupants simply because they're Latino.
A bill to prevent parents from opting their children out of school-required vaccinations could be headed for a major rewrite after lawmakers heard impassioned testimony from hundreds of parents who threatened to take their kids out of school.
Federal health officials turned up the pressure on Florida Tuesday, saying the future of $1.3 billion in federal funding for hospitals that treat low-income patients is tied to whether the Legislature expands Medicaid.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, dismayed by a Democratic Party that he believes has moved too slowly to embrace a populist platform, arrived in the Midwest on Wednesday with an audacious mission: leading the nation leftward.
The last time Kenneth Seay lost his job, at an industrial bakery that offered health insurance and Christmas bonuses, it was because he had been thrown in jail for legal issues stemming from a revoked driver’s license. Same with the three jobs before that.
A congressional drafting error and clunky phrase is putting a second of President Barack Obama's signature endeavors in jeopardy. This time it's climate change.
Matthew Dowd, a lawyer representing a Maryland couple who plans to sue Montgomery County after their children were seized from a park by police and taken into Child Protective Services for six hours. The couple practices "free-range parenting" and allows their children, ages 10 and 6, to walk around and play outside by themselves.
Democratic senators wanted a four-year extension but ultimately joined most Republicans in voting for a wider package that also reforms Medicare.
Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday vetoed legislation which would have made the sale and use of the new product illegal in the state.
Bush vowed Tuesday that he would not criticize his "friend," the Florida Senator.
A new report examines the ways in which struggling cities mismanage federal grants and offers ideas for fixing it.
Amount Chicago proposes paying dozens of torture victims connected to former Police Commander Jon Burge and his so-called midnight crew of rogue detectives, who solved murder, rape and arson cases by torturing suspects into confessing.
Residents of Pickett County, Tenn., who are worried about climate change, which is the lowest percent of any U.S. county. Washington, D.C., residents are the most worried (74 percent), compared to 52 percent nationwide.
Many departments have been using them for decades, and the technology for some recently improved.
A Missouri inmate was executed Tuesday night for killing a man in a fit of rage over child support payments 16 years ago.
A new audit recommends that Missouri refund more than $34 million to the federal government because the state did not comply with Medicaid regulations.
Nicole Galloway, a certified public accountant and the Democratic county treasurer in Boone County, was tapped by Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday to replace the late Tom Schweich as state auditor.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spent his first day in New Hampshire pitching overhauls to Social Security and federal health care, visiting a pizzeria and courting Republicans during what appeared to be a campaign trip in all but name.
The longest criminal trial in Georgia history ended Tuesday with two former educators admitting guilt in the nation's largest test-cheating conspiracy and eight others proclaiming innocence as a judge ordered them to prison.
New Orleans is using data analytics to get smoke alarms into the buildings that need them the most.
The D.C. Council on Tuesday rejected a controversial health-care contract proposed for the city’s jail after weeks of fierce arguments and heavy lobbying by supporters and opponents.
Voters in a wealthy suburb of St. Louis rejected tax increases to fund schools last week.
House Bill 1283 lost the support of its original advocates after the Senate amended it to prohibit students from skipping the ACT, work assessments or any test required to graduate or pass a certain grade level.
Charlie Baker's sweeping directive alarms advocates for labor and the environment.
By moving to wealthier areas, hospitals can reduce the percent of uninsured and lower-paying Medicaid patients, while increasing the proportion of privately insured patients.
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