Tucked into President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, the new rural health fund has state leaders rushing to ...

Facing a push by Texas Republicans to redraw congressional maps, California’s governor is weighing a special-election effort ...

With scorching temperatures blanketing nearly half the country, power providers brace for peak demand as cities issue health warnings and transit systems slow under the strain.

The power of legislatures has waxed and waned over the centuries. It's been on an upswing during the 50 years since the ...

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Subsidies distort fair competition. If these technologies are the future of America’s energy sector, they should compete ...

The fallout from a strike by prison guards continues to paralyze prisons, forcing officials to suspend programs and rely on ...

Higher federal income tax offsets for state and local tax payments have morphed into a mostly upper-middle-class political ...

Despite warnings that the law criminalizes low-risk behaviors, the state remains one of just five that impose lengthy sex ...

From politics to economics, closing old or bad prisons is not always straightforward. Even some incarcerated people have ...

Local officials report crowds disrupting flood recovery efforts, raising new questions about managing public access, privacy ...

A new report shows homicides fell 17 percent in early 2025, but experts caution the trend is concentrated in a few major ...