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Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy.

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All 50 state attorneys general have come together through a newly formed task force to go after companies that allow robocalls originating overseas to reach their customers.

Maryland’s Yellow Alert system, which went into effect in late 2015, can be used when there is enough descriptive information about the vehicle to help law enforcement.

To help inflation-plagued and struggling families ease the burden of buying necessities, several states are scrapping the sales tax on infant and adult diapers.

With online and retail sports betting now legal in more than 30 states, the portrait of a new problem gambler is emerging: the high school student.

With record numbers of state jobs going unfilled since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Maryland was in a bind.

Restaurants line Main Street

Under federal policy, benefits can’t be used for hot or prepared foods. But that policy is shifting in Maryland and other states.

By Matt Vasilogambros  After a year of election-related lies and disinformation, voters in 32 states went to the polls this month with few major…

Scammers are exploiting state pushes for drivers to make sure their licenses are renewed, cybersecurity experts say.

By Matt Vasilogambros The months after November’s presidential election have been filled with conspiracy theories, lies and myths about the security and integrity of…

By Tim Henderson Redistricting debates will heat up in many states as Democrats try to stop Republicans, who control most statehouses, from drawing district lines that would solidify their political power…