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Scott Walker now has at least two dozen staffers or consultants associated with his gubernatorial election committee and Our American Revival, his PAC.
Obamacare’s tenuous toehold in Montana appears to be growing no firmer. Despite a hearing crowded with supporters of the Democratic governor’s Medicaid expansion bill, Republican legislators have dealt the measure a likely death blow.
Turn on the faucet. Fill a glass with water. Drink it. Acts so commonplace you perform them without thinking twice.
Marijuana legalization got a boost on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as a trio of rising stars in the Senate launched an effort to rewrite federal drug laws.
Legislators have approved removing from a bill a mandatory repeal of the state's Common Core standards -- following great opposition from state education officials, who said the legislation could disrupt West Virginia's entire K-12 system, cost more than $100 million and threaten federal funding.
Ferguson city manager John Shaw, the city's most powerful official, resigned Tuesday night.
Utah will be able to use a firing squad to execute death row inmates when lethal-injection drugs are unavailable, as long as the governor signs a bill that cleared the state Senate on Tuesday.
As another Marketplace Fairness Act hits the U.S. Senate, supporters are urging the House speaker -- one of the idea's biggest roadblocks -- to do whatever necessary to pass it through Congress.
Human error and outdated technology have miscalculated thousands of prison sentences and cost some states millions of dollars.
Of all the steps taken since Washington legalized marijuana, North Bonneville's might be boldest.
The governor promised more than $11 million to complete 41 environmental projects, and then he changed his mind.
The politician's campaign logo includes map of Maryland — with a sliver of Virginia in it.
State officials says the problems with tests last week were due to a cyber attack.
A law passed in 2011 put endangered species in the comptroller's purview. The idea was that any time a Texas animal ends up on a federal endangered species list, industrial activity is in danger.
Number of collisions between Washington, D.C., streetcars (which aren't in operation for passengers yet) and motor vehicles since October.
Rural youths are nearly twice as likely to commit suicide as their urban counterparts, according to a study by Ohio State University researchers.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday denied that administrators in his Department of Environmental Protection were banned from using the terms "global warming" or "climate change."
The Missouri Supreme Court announced Monday that it will take the "extraordinary action" of reassigning all Ferguson municipal court cases to the circuit court, starting next week.
Starting next year, the federal government will require health insurers to give millions of Americans enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans or in policies sold in the federally run health exchange up-to-date details about which doctors are in their plans and taking new patients.
The judge who blocked President Obama's executive action on immigration has ordered the Justice Department to answer allegations that the government misled him about part of the plan.
President Obama took a direct swipe at Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a Republican and likely presidential candidate in 2016, for signing a so-called right-to-work bill that will limit the power of private-sector unions.
Journalist Timothy B. Lee, on how passenger railroad transportation works across the country.
Nearly 100 percent of eligible Oregonians take advantage of food stamps, far more than any other state. That might be a good thing.
He's the first U.S. president in 20 years to address the National League of Cities conference.
Number of public transit trips Americans took in 2014, which is the most since 1957.
Gov. Scott Walker on Monday signed the contentious right-to-work bill at a factory in Brown Deer, making Wisconsin the 25th state with such a law.
On the ground in Iowa, which will kick off the 2016 primary season, the Texas governor is taken seriously.
Will California and New York be the next to enact such laws?
Building on the success of the University of Chicago's crime and education labs, the schools is adding three new initiatives: a health lab, an energy and environment lab, and a poverty lab.
The justices will consider a case crucial to Kathleen Kane's political future. After a seven-month investigation a grand jury concluded the attorney general had illegally leaked confidential information to embarrass a political foe and then lied about it to the jury.
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