Lawmakers in some states are pushing measures to crack down on abortion pills or penalize women who obtain abortions.

MADISON – The performance of Milwaukee public school students is at the heart of a discussion inside the state Capitol over whether the state's measuring stick for schools is effective enough to ...

The bill requires that a referendum be held in Puerto Rico by the end of the year to determine whether it will retain its commonwealth status, become the 51st state or become an independent nation.

Alabama lawmakers are proposing a state law to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The bill's sponsor says this ...

Virginia Commonwealth University has told its employees ... Among the universities with such structures are Penn State and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, but VCU is not using ...

Meanwhile, the Aspen School District has not yet implemented a written name change policy, but said it’s in the process of reviewing the new state law. “The district's non-discrimination ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state, erasing the 5,525-mile border the nations ...

Congressional bills carving D.C. out as an independent state have gained, and subsequently lost, momentum over the years. The District of Columbia's Voting Rights Amendment of 1978 failed to ...

the Oklahoma State Board of Education voted 4-0 Tuesday to suspend the teaching certificates of 11 educators, including three from Sperry Public Schools. Without discussion or debate in open ...

In 1917, the area officially became Mount McKinley National Park, and the peak, Mount McKinley — despite a debate between ... In 1975, the state moved to change the name of the mountain to ...