When it comes to talking about taxes, federal income tax gets the lion's share of the attention. However, it is far from the only money paid by U.S. residents to the government. Most states have ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether a federal law requiring hospitals that participate in Medicare to provide “necessary stabilizing treatment” in an emergency overrides an Idaho ...

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No doubt, the massive changes are difficult to just keep track of, much less react to. Many federal government employees are facing a reduction in force or may accept a deferred resignation deal, if ...

Congressional Republicans are trying again to preempt state AI laws. Here’s what Congress’ last failed moratorium on state AI laws reveals about future efforts at preemption or moratoriums. In this ...

The Supreme Court hears yet another abortion case on Wednesday. This one testswhether a state can prevent a pregnant woman from receiving what her doctors say is essential medical treatment, including ...

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Just prior to the full fury of January’s great winter storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared it would “cease offboarding” frontline disaster responders whose terminations were pending ...

When a Grand Rapids, Michigan, police detective and an FBI agent started beating James King, an innocent passerby, he thought he was being mugged, not being questioned as a subject in a criminal ...

Kevin Gould has received funding for doctoral research from Central Queensland University. The federal budget reignited debate over federal-state relations with a decision to cut $80 billion funding ...