Calif. raisin farmers win new day in court
The Supreme Court is giving California raisin producers a new day in court to object to a government program that aims to stabilize prices by ...

APNewsBreak: Pallone says he's in NJ Senate race
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone said Sunday that he's officially in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat occupied by Frank Lautenberg and can win the ...
States fight green-building leader over local wood
A building supplier phoned Pollard Lumber Co. about providing wood for a large government construction project in Georgia, but the deal broke down ...

State laws varied on gun, abortion laws
The U.S. Supreme Court says women in America can terminate a pregnancy and that every citizen has an individual right to own a firearm, but those ...

Iowa gov. may need to OK Medicaid abortion funding
Catholic, anti-abortion Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad could soon find himself in an uncomfortable position: He may have to sign off on payments for every ...

Dems tap star power, money for Mass. Senate race
Democrats are dispatching a lineup of political heavyweights to Massachusetts, backed by a river of outside money, to head off the possibility that ...
Oregon Senate passes bill on vaccination education
A bill that is intended to persuade more Oregon parents to take their kids to doctors for shots and get over their mistrust of conventional medicine ...

234 years later, NH slaves are granted freedom
Fourteen slaves who petitioned the New Hampshire Legislature for their freedom during the Revolutionary War were granted posthumous emancipation ...
Cheney to compete in annual Wyoming antelope hunt
Dick Cheney will be shooting for Wyoming in an antelope hunt that's co-hosted by the governors of Colorado and Wyoming each year. Wyoming Gov.

Texas site begins taking federal nuclear waste
Republican mega-donor Harold Simmons' remote hazardous waste dump in West Texas began accepting low-level radioactive material Thursday from a federal ...

Dems pouring money, Obama into Mass. Senate race
Fearful of another surprise Republican victory, Democrats are pouring money into the Massachusetts Senate race to succeed John Kerry and dispatching ...
Republicans: Give governors more school say
Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors would be relegated to cheerleaders for the nation's schools, and governors would be put in charge ...

NJ attorney general named to fill US Senate seat
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie named a longtime loyal colleague, state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa, to temporarily fill the U.S. Senate seat ...

FBI looking at Calif. lawmaker's water legislation
The FBI investigation of state Sen. Ron Calderon involves legislation he introduced for a Los Angeles-area water district that uses his brother as a ...

New NRA-backed Kansas law seeks to limit lobbying
Fresh off a series of legislative victories across the country, the National Rifle Association has launched a new effort starting in gun-friendly ...

NJ's Gov. Chris Christie bashed for election move
Seven months after he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with President Barack Obama in what was celebrated by many in storm-battered New Jersey as a selfless ...
Allegations of sex, drugs roil Baltimore jail
Inmates often complain of idleness, but Tavon White apparently had no trouble keeping busy behind bars. Investigators say the man nicknamed "Bulldog" ...

FBI raids office of Calif. state lawmaker
The FBI searched the offices of a California state senator and the Legislature's Latino caucus on Tuesday but would not disclose the reason for the ...

NJ Gov. Christie: Oct. vote for Lautenberg's seat
Republican Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday set an October special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by Democrat Frank Lautenberg's ...

GOP aiming to recruit more Chicago candidates
The odds are historically against them, but Illinois' beleaguered Republicans are looking to reverse their fortunes by recruiting help in the heart ...

Nevada lawmakers pass 5 bills in special session
Sleep-deprived Nevada lawmakers quickly passed all five bills they had to deal with in a special session called overnight by Gov. Brian Sandoval.

New Jersey Sen. Lautenberg dead at 89
The next time a flight attendant reminds you there's no smoking or you witness a teenager getting carded at a liquor store, think of Frank Lautenberg.

New IRS head says taxpayers no longer trust agency
His agency under relentless fire, the new head of the Internal Revenue Service acknowledged to Congress on Monday that American taxpayers no longer ...
Former RNC chair Steele eyeing Md. governor's race
Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele says he is considering running for Maryland governor in 2014. Steele told MSNBC host ...

GOP replacement for NJ's Lautenberg not assured
Gov. Chris Christie is perhaps the nation's highest-profile Republican — but that's no guarantee the seat held by the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg will ...