New Jersey is wiping out $100 million in medical debt for about 50,000 of its residents, using federal pandemic relief funds and partnering with a nonprofit that buys the debt from hospitals or the secondary…

Kansas’s share of federal dollars has been dropping precipitously in recent years. According to research conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Charitable Trusts, federal grants in Kansas as a portion of state revenues fell from 33…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to withhold money to help California cope with wildfires, a day after new Gov. Gavin Newsom asked him to double the federal investment in forest management.…