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Do you know your state's senators?

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America’s babies get a tiny slice of the federal budget

A baby holding an image of a pie chart with categories in different colors.

How immigration scams affect thousands of foreign nationals

A legal professional accepting cash from a client over a contract agreement.

What's behind the rising demand for crime scene cleanup services?

A forensic team removing a barrier tape from a crime scene.

The global rate pivot

Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda speaks during a press conference at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo on March 19, 2026.

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Increase in ballot errors coincides with turnover among county election officials in Pennsylvania

Luzerne County official checks ballots on election night in 2023

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Arizona's federal-only voters are concentrated on college campuses, data show

University of Arizona main campus aerial view including University Mall and Old Main Building in Tucson

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Documents show Republican-led states struggling to clean voter rolls after leaving ERIC

Secretaries of state such as Frank LaRose of Ohio (left), Wes Allen of Alabama (center right), and Paul Pate of Iowa (right) led their states to depart from the ERIC program for cross-state voter roll cleaning. Also pictured is U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana (center left) at a news conference in July in Washington, D.C.

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Michigan to automatically register people to vote when exiting prison

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Detroit. Americans made their ways to the polls on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, to vote in the heated midterm elections.

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A government shutdown halts pay for 2.8 million federal workers. Here's where it would hit them hardest

The Capital Building with police tape around it reading 'shutdown'

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Rural communities still at a disadvantage when competing for government grants

Photo Illustration showing the US Capitol building superimposed alongside gold-colored dollar signs over a rural landscape

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Harris County election shows progress. But challenges remain ahead of 2024.

Voters cast their ballots at the West Gray Multiservice Center during Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Houston.

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Working the polls cleared up one Pennsylvanian's 2020 election suspicions. Now he's taking charge as a judge of elections.

John "Jay" Schneider, 76, in Downingtown, Pa., on Oct. 30. Schneider is serving as a judge of elections for the first time, overseeing the Caln Township polling place. “You don’t know how much responsibility is there, and you don’t want to screw it up.”

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Violent crime is up … and also down, according to new federal data

Crime scene tape, yellow

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20 photos of reproductive rights protests from the age of Roe up until now

Triptych with reproductive rights demonstrations from 1970, 1989, 2023.