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Do you know your state's senators?

When ICE shows up, these businesses will be ready

A store worker showing a "No warrant, No entry" / "Private area" signs behind the counter.

‘They want to keep denying us our rights’: Workers in the dairy industry fight for basic labor protections

Hilario, a dairy worker, who is seen guiding cows onto the milking area in a dairy farm in Vermont, USA.

What the US can teach other countries about home-based child care

A young boy playing with block toys in the corner of a room.

Portugal cleared hundreds of thousands of immigration files. What the backlog means for expats now

Person holding a Portuguese passport.

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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

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27 senators are up for reelection—which, if any, are 'progressive' relative to the political lean of their states?

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) at a meet-and-greet in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2019.

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Are self-driving cars a national security risk?

White Tesla driving on the road.

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Landmark Supreme Court cases and Chief Justices of the time

A photo of the Supreme Court building with a blue sky in the background.