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Do you know your state's senators?

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What, exactly, is happening with coal mining in Alberta?

Local activists rally during the 'Protect Our Water' protest against coal mining in the Eastern Slopes, held outside the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on January 25, 2025.

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The PACs for public lands

A view of the Idaho state capitol building downtown with overlooking mountains at the back.

America’s safest midsize cities in 2026

Flatirons and mountain ranges seen behind the Stearns Lake in an autumn landscape in Broomfield, Colorado, USA.

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Border wall plans threaten rural infrastructure and cross-border life in Big Bend

The banks of the Rio Grande near Presidio, Texas.

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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.

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Elegance vs. extravagance: What do Biden and Trump's car collections say about these very different leaders?

This combination of pictures created on October 22, 2020 shows US President Donald Trump (L) and Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22, 2020.

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Election deniers focus recruitment in 'out of the way places'

The interior of the Shasta County, California, elections office on August 16, 2023