BART will raise fares by 6.2 percent on New Year's Day, citing inflation and long-term financial pressures, even as ridership ...

Historically, the tax system has operated as a bulwark against concentrations of wealth. And in this way, it has served to legitimate our capitalist system by showing how it can work to extract large ...

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva says he will veto a bill that could reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro's 27-year prison ...

Modern data centers use a similar amount of electricity but can be built in nine to 12 months. To meet that projected demand, construction of a new gas-fired power plant, or a solar farm with battery ...

Joe Gonzales, who is not running for reelection, told county commissioners that the issue of unprocessed cases won't go away ...

"We're losing aspiring educators because folks can only do it if they can afford to do it," Rep. Jennifer Leeper said.

Nearly half of California counties pay private lawyers and firms to represent poor people in criminal cases, and most of them use a “flat-fee” contract. That means they pay a fixed ...

Many rural school districts around the United States are having a hard time making up for federal grant money that's been cut ...

A Fulton County marijuana processor has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of New York's mandatory ...

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration says he won’t forget the 67 people who died when an airliner collided with an ...

The Senate has moved quickly to close a loophole that could allow military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors approved the changes to fares, tolls and, ticketing policies on ...