After the state’s previous governor created a board to consider clemency for people sentenced to lengthy prison terms as ...

Two redistricting experts answer your questions on the latest Supreme Court ruling that guts the VRA—did it kill Section 2, ...

The California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring, spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that ...

The U.S. Postal Service began piloting a cost-cutting plan in 2023 to remove the machines that sort and postmark mail from local offices and instead consolidate mail processing in regional centers. As ...

A pair of unusually heated Georgia Supreme Court elections grew even more consequential on Wednesday, when the U.S. Supreme ...

Under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, Cook County prosecutors have tried to block nearly every exonerated person who ...

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will ...

When the supreme court in Wyoming struck down an abortion ban in January, it cited a state constitutional amendment adopted in 2012 that affirmed a right for people to make their own health care ...

George Hawkins had a long to-do list when he left the Greensville Correctional Center on May 3, a free man for the first time in his adult life: stay out of trouble, find work, enroll in school, and ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...

Howard Gwynn served more than three decades as prosecutor of Newport News, Virginia, but never faced any opponent over his eight reelection races. This summer, on his ninth reelection bid, he drew his ...