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New York officials announced on Thursday that they would offer employee protection and financial guarantees for health care workers joining the fight against the Ebola outbreak in three West African nations.
The San Antonio City Council on Thursday unanimously voted in front of a packed chamber to approve a controversial pipeline that would bring in groundwater from 142 miles away. The $3.4 billion project would pipe in 16 billion gallons of water each year from Central Texas' Burleson County.
Reversing what it called “incorrect and harmful” earlier rulings, the Washington Supreme Court said Thursday the state cannot put the burden on rape defendants to prove that an alleged victim consented — a decision critics said will make it harder to punish dangerous sex offenders.
President Barack Obama came to Maine on Thursday to tell a loud crowd of 3,000 in Portland that Democratic gubernatorial nominee Mike Michaud is the kind of politician that runs for office for the right reasons.
Under a settlement agreement announced Friday by the Justice Department, federal officials will appoint an independent monitor to oversee the Albuquerque Police Department as it implements sweeping reforms to change how its officers use force.
Legislatures will consider an interstate compact next year that could make it easier for doctors to get licenses in other states, which could be a boon to rural areas that don't have enough medical care.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Countering the public's cynicism and mistrust starts with honest, open communication.
There's a better way to forecast investment returns for public retirement systems, but adopting it would put some pensions even further into the hole.
It's the biggest effort yet to make government tax subsidies more transparent.
The longtime mayor of Boston was an unconventional politician, and that's why he was one of the most successful urban leaders of his generation.
Voters will decide whether to add language in the state constitution intended to give higher legal protections to gun rights.
National Guard troops are deployed as lava approaches the small town of Pahoa.
Physicians learn to work on their delivery when faced with parents who refuse to inoculate their children.
A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus went for a bike ride, defying Maine's order that she be quarantined in her home and setting up a legal collision with Governor Paul LePage.
Some residents have been performing rhymes, singing songs or telling jokes on Halloween since the 1930s. It may even be closer to the roots of Halloween than the rest of the country’s habit of handing out candy free.
He has broken the mold by allowing his quirky personality to shine through.
New Hampshire's Republican Senate candidate flubs a response in a debate that caused opponents to wonder about the former Massachusetts senator's grasp of his new state's geography.
Despite a massive manhunt, survivalist Eric Frein evaded being captured for more than six weeks.
Driven by Lone Star ambition, the attorney general's path to power may take him beyond his home state.
The trend toward one-party control of statehouses has made the states a testing ground for party policies in an era of gridlock in Washington.
In the country’s unhealthiest state, the disaster of the Affordable Care Act is a group effort.
Amount paid to Hillary Clinton to deliver a speech at the University of Las Vegas Foundation's annual dinner in which she bemoaned the high cost of college.
It's the only state that effectively bans chain stores from owning pharmacies. Voters could change that this week.
More than two years after it entered, the California city emerged from bankruptcy Thursday with its retirees and employees allowed to keep their pension benefits.
Even though most Americans support raising the minimum wage, most Republican-run states so far haven't done so.
He left office earlier this year after an unprecedented two decades leading the city.
Trends in management and change might come and go, but innovation remains a common thread.
Our final pre-election handicapping of the gubernatorial, attorney general and legislative contests.
Opponents say the plan amounts to irresponsible spending while supporters call it a solution to overcrowded schools.
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