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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.
After long lines turned voters away in November, Connecticut is the most recent state to seek rules and requirements for election administrators.
Following Arizona's footsteps, states are starting to make students pass the U.S. citizenship test that immigrants take in an effort to create a better-informed citizenry.
Amount Texas owed in back rent for the building in London it used from 1842 to 1845 when it was an independent sovereign country to conduct diplomatic relations. Texas finally settled up in 1986.
Gov. Charlie Baker learned about former Gov. Deval Patrick’s hiring by the Boston 2024 Olympics boosters from news reports, and is renewing his demand for transparency from the nonprofit group, which has not revealed how much Patrick will be paid.
The University of Oklahoma became a trending topic Sunday night on Twitter as videos allegedly showing members of one of the school's fraternities shouting a racist chant made their way across the Internet on YouTube and Instagram.
A bill dissolving Cover Oregon, the state's dysfunctional health insurance exchange, has been signed by Gov. Kate Brown.
Starting March 27, legally married same-sex couples will be able to take unpaid time off to care for a spouse or sick family members even if they live in a state that doesn’t recognize their marriage.
Florida's government may have figured out a way to beat climate change: ignore it.
A Madison, Wis., police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 19-year-old African American man Friday had been exonerated in a previous fatal shooting, officials disclosed Saturday.
Toxic chemicals are sweeping across our nation's most important agricultural region and officials are using time-tested tactics not to find solutions, but to make the problem appear minor.
Two veteran police commanders have resigned and a city court clerk has been fired over racist emails cited this week in a Justice Department report critical of the city of Ferguson's law enforcement
In a powerful illustration of the state's increasingly polarized politics, the Wisconsin Assembly passed so-called right-to-work legislation Friday on a strictly party-line vote, with two Republicans who had previously sided with unions now lining up against them.
Journalist Betsy Woodruff, arguing that it's the unique nature of Wisconsin's legislative branch that's made the state's governor a GOP superstar.
Police departments seek out 'less lethal' weapons to use in law enforcement.
Under Gov. Bruce Rauner's proposed cuts to the Department of Children and Family Services, thousands of older state wards for whom Illinois failed to find permanent placement before they aged out of foster care will be forced to fend for themselves.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Democrats and Republicans unveiled six bills designed to help create pathways to jobs in construction, information technology and health care.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is now under investigation as part of a growing federal probe into the handling of sexual violence complaints.
A record-breaking snowstorm slammed Kentucky on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, stranding thousands of motorists on interstates and prompting a statewide emergency declaration for the second time in 21/2 weeks.
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