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Retirement savings of Chicago teachers are being invested in firms whose executives made big contributions to the mayor.

Will deleted emails be an issue for 2016? Clinton is intent on protecting her privacy. She's willing to take a political hit to do so.

Getting Illinois’ medical marijuana industry off the ground has proved difficult.

Among other things, the bill would downgrade marijuana to Schedule 2 on the Drug Enforcement Agency’s classification system.

Some local governments want to levy their own taxes on recreational pot sales and are pressuring the Oregon Legislature.

Legal weed in 2014 became a $2.7 billion industry, a 74 percent jump from 2013, making it the fastest growing U.S. industry.

Jared Polis of Colorado, who was elected to the House in 2008, was one of the first federal lawmakers to endorse full legalization.

Hours after settling an Exxon case for just $225 million, the N.J. governor speaks to a group backed by the oil giant.

The Chicago mayoral challenger slammed Rahm Emanuel for his ties to the controversial program.

New Jersey's governor wants to use settlement money for a budget that cuts environmental efforts and funds corporate tax cuts.

County attorneys and sheriffs in three states have filed a lawsuit in an attempt to again criminalize marijuana sales in Colorado.

The law would allow pot shops and growing facilities to apply for licenses with the Department of Business Regulation.

Republicans said Hillary Clinton's secret emails may not be damaging by themselves but could be used to reinforce a negative view of her.

Hillary Clinton is being investigated by a House committee after it was revealed she used a private email address and server for official work.

Financial fund execs benefit from New York tax policies and have given millions to state politicians since 2000, a report says.

House GOP conservatives John Boehner into pushing their agenda. The unintended upshot: More bipartisanship by moderates.

The House passed a bill funding DHS through September. Republicans cast all of the 167 votes against the measure, which now goes to Obama.

The backlash comes after a leading marijuana advocacy group called on supporters of legal weed to boycott the hotel chain in February.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi stopped applauding in the middle of Netanyahu's speech.

The Chicago mayor's former aide was hired by a red-light camera firm's lobbyists just days before the firm got a city contract.

The speaker will allow a vote on Homeland Security funding that isn't attached to Obama's executive actions on immigration.

Inviting Netanyahu to speak was supposed to bolster Boehner, but the shadow of other problems may lessen the speaker's PR victory.

Accounting change masks new data showing NJ pension fees jumped 50 percent to $600 million in 2014.

The Senate isn’t going along with House Republicans’ plan to use Department of Homeland Security funding to fight President Obama’s orders on immigration.

At least 40 percent of Washington cities have outlawed marijuana sales within their borders.

The dilemma for frontrunner Hillary Clinton: When the primary season starts, she has to win big or risk being seen as weak.

New "pay-to-play" legislation could keep Christie from raising campaign funds from a wide swath of Wall Street.

The marijuana bust is the largest in the history of the Otay Mesa port of entry and the second-largest ever at any U.S. border crossing.

Language inserted by Chris Christie into a N.J. law allows him to steer cash from environmental lawsuits away from cleanups, into a discretionary fund.