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Do you know your state's senators?

Time is running out for government websites to fix accessibility issues

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What if diapers were free for the parents who need them most?

A daycare center's shelf with stacks of various children's diapers with their names written on them.

Ghosts of your digital past: The creepy details anyone can find about you

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The end of the climate hawk era

Steam rises out of the nuclear plant on Three Mile Island, with the operational plant run by Exelon Generation, in Middletown, Pennsylvania on March 26, 2019, forty years after the three mile island meltdown.

Why the political blame game starts moments after a shooting

The US flag atop the White House lowered to half-staff after political activist Charlie Kirk had died on September 10, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Republican governors sent National Guard to DC despite violence at home

Members of the National Guard and members of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies stand outside the main hall of Union Station in Washington, D.C.

Trump administration declares timber emergency after decades of employment decline in the industry

A pile of cut logs sits on the ground with thick sawdust floating everywhere while a logging company is harvesting timber in Lincoln County, Montana.

Trump’s fixation on urban crime ignores worsening rural violence, experts say

Pictures of loved ones lost to gun violence are displayed during a vigil in honor of victims of gun related deaths at Public Square Park in Nashville, Tennessee.

Can labor organizers transform a moment into a movement?

Boeing defense plant workers holding up "Strike Against Boeing" signs outside of a Boeing facility in Berkeley, Missouri.

What Trump's national housing emergency would mean for new homebuyers

An affordable housing building under construction in Hell's Kitchen, New York.

How Texas’ mid-decade redistricting could affect voters in one Houston community

Representative-elect Sylvester Turner (D-TX) poses for a photograph on the steps of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC.

As Republicans spar over IVF, some turn to obscure MAHA-backed alternative

Elizabeth Goldman, an in-vitro fertilization patient at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, holds up a photo of her daughter who was born via the procedure.

Trump flaunts pardon rules — and costs victims and taxpayers more than $1 billion

Members of the far-right group the Proud Boys, including their former leader Enrique Tarrio, Stewart Rhodes, Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean and Zach Rehl speak to journalists on the east side of the U.S. Capitol, Feb. 2025.

Pharma industry and Ballard Partners dominate the lobbying space in second quarter of 2025

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