Government And Institutions

A necessary burden for most Americans, Tax Day is an accounting nightmare for thousands of gay and lesbian couples as they wrestle with the uneven legal status of same-sex marriage in the United States.

An appeals court ruled Friday that Missouri can't limit health insurance navigators' ability to help people obtain insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law — a ruling that advocates say could have implications for other states that have instituted similar restrictions.

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On the heels of a record $1.6 billion penalty against Pacific Gas & Electric Co., California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Picker said he will study whether the state's biggest power utility should be broken up to improve safety.

Efforts to transform Maine's tax code have failed time and again.

Five U.S. Congress members are heading to the mothballed site of a proposed national radioactive waste dump in the Nevada desert, amid new talk about a decades-old problem — where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel stored at commercial reactors around the U.S.

U.S. stocks were little changed in early trading Thursday as investors assessed company earnings.

California's top utility regulator is asking if the state's largest utility is too big for safety.

New York financial regulators say they've found gaps in cybersecurity in bank dealings with third-party vendors, noting that nearly one-third of 40 banking organizations surveyed don't require service vendors to inform them of information security breaches.

Some new and expanding data storage centers in Missouri soon will be exempt from certain state and local sales taxes under a bill signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon aimed at bringing jobs and high-tech companies to the state.

Thousands of state residents got bigger tax credits than they were owed, and the state could see millions of dollars returning to the treasury after the funds are recovered, the state comptroller's office said.

Missouri residents with delinquent taxes could pay them back without facing penalties or interest under a proposal that the House sent to Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday.

Several members of Congress are heading to the mothballed site of a proposed radioactive waste dump in the Nevada desert amid new talk about a decades-old problem — where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel stored at commercial reactors around the U.S.

A judge has rejected a proposed settlement between cooperative Dairy Farmers of America and Northeast dairy farmers over an alleged effort to drive down prices paid to farmers.

The board that oversees Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities voted Thursday to endorse a tuition freeze sought by Gov. Tom Wolf but reserved the right to back out of the deal if he doesn't increase the university's budget by more than $45 million.

Repeated natural-gas accidents — including a pipeline explosion that killed eight people — suggest that Pacific Gas & Electric Co., California's largest power utility, may be too big to operate safely, the state's top utility regulator says.

Gov. Scott Walker heads to Europe this week on a trade mission featuring private meetings with business and government representatives in Germany, France and Spain, as he ramps up for a likely bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.

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A federal banking official took the unprecedented step Thursday of meeting with marijuana business owners, as the pot business awaits word on setting up its own bank.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer rode the "R'' train from Brooklyn to City Hall on Thursday morning, chatting with straphangers, handing out leaflets and, at times, adopting Boston accents as they called for the public to pressure Congress to increase federal transportation funding.