Browsing: State

Affordability is weighing California down in U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best States Rankings, which revealed who is outperforming in areas like health care access and math test scores — and who is coming in dead last

U.S. News & World Report released their “Best States” rankings for 2026 this week, and Washington ranked ninth overall. The state moved up slightly after being ranked 10th in 2025 and eighth in 2024

At the Great American State Fair, Americans expressed cautious optimism about jobs and growth, but many told Fox News Digital values and leadership matter more than economic conditions at the ballot box

Louisiana is again ranked last in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2026 Best States report, which cites poverty, poisonous industrial pollution and obesity among the among the state’s hardships

Gabriela von zur Muehlen, chief policy officer at the Texas Association of Business, says Texas’ low costs and strong supply chains help attract billionaires, CEOs and manufacturers

Tehran, Iran – A public rift has emerged between Iran’s government and state television over how to portray the state of war and negotiations with the United States, as mediators try to nudge both countries towards diplomacy

U.S. News & World Report has released its 2026 Best Colleges rankings, and it’s a good-news, mixed-news kind of year for Alabama’s universities. Seven Alabama schools made the National Universities list, which ranks more than 430 institutions nationwide — and most of them are trending up

Article Summary About half of the staff of 524 employees will be laid off at the Choate Mental Health and Development Center in southern Illinois amid operational changes. The Illinois Department of Human Services stated the changes are part of a three-year plan aimed at repurposing the facility. There is now a greater need for…

July 23 — The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday that a Kenmore Air seaplane in Washington state with ​11 people on board made an emergency landing ‌near Sucia Island before catching fire, but everyone on the plane was accounted for after a rescue operation

I’ve been writing in recent months about how digital identity systems are potentially disastrous for privacy and how the state of Utah is being uniquely thoughtful in its approach to the technology. But Utah seems to be taking an interesting approach to privacy in ways that go beyond the digital ID issue. An example is…