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History of the US justice system

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How Trump is trying to expand the already colossal U.S. prison system

An officer patrols at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City.

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Protecting rural immigrant populations from expanding reach of ICE

The Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates office in Washington.

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Job satisfaction among election administrators continues to sink, survey shows

Denver Elections personnel administrator Elizabeth Littlepage, left, and election worker William Goad, sort through ballots that need to go to specific counties at the Denver Elections Division.

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Society

When betrayal works in our favor: New UCLA study reveals the complexity of trust

A couple sitting on a couch whose backs are turned on each other.

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How the US ranks globally in data transparency and openness

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These are the 13 states with comprehensive consumer privacy protection laws

A woman using a laptop in a cafe.

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Governments are scrambling to control AI

Photo illustration with AI conceptual imagery and US Capitol dome.

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What the Biden administration's new executive order on AI will mean for cybersecurity

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the White House with blue processor graphic in background.

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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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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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