People who lost parental rights helped pass a bill to reform California's law blocking people with past convictions for ...

Vote-by-mail was not always such a hot topic. It’s a longstanding practice in the U.S., dating back to the Civil War and even ...

In a break with the Trump era, the winner of the secretary of state primary strongly defends election systems, and the ...

A dog at a polling location in New Hampshire, one of the states with September primaries. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Sipa USA) The 2026 primaries are reaching the end: The four remaining states that have ...

Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North ...

Five years after a federal court ruling introduced unlimited spending in Alaska elections, voters there hit back on Tuesday, ...

News broke this month that the Trump administration is working on a plan to order the Census Bureau to exclude undocumented people in 2030, a move President Trump already pushed for ahead of 2020 as a ...

Conservatives around the country cheered in 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court ended federal protections for abortion. But in Kansas, the anti-abortion movement’s drive to outlaw the procedure has ...

Sarah Fair George, one of the most durable avatars of the progressive prosecution movement, all but secured another term on Tuesday as the top prosecutor of Burlington, Vermont. She narrowly prevailed ...

Below are the candidates who are running for county attorney and sheriff in Minnesota in 2026. Minnesota held primary elections on Aug. 11 that narrowed the field to no more than two candidates in ...

Djvan Carter often thinks of what he’ll say at a parole hearing if he ever gets the chance. Serving a life sentence for attempted murder, Carter says he’d want a parole board to know he’s sorry for ...