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Do you know your state's senators?

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Platner’s exit from Maine’s Senate race leaves Democrats in a deep financial hole

U.S. Senate candidate and Democratic Party's Graham Platner speaking at his Primary Election event in Blue Hill, Maine.

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The 5 most stolen cars in America—and the 5 least stolen cars—according to data

US-NEW YORK-AUTO SHOW The Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is pictured during the New York International Auto Show

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Among the millions of Americans affected after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, 100,000 Tennesseans lost SNAP food aid

Cassandra Doyle, one of about 100,000 Tennesseans who lost SNAP food benefits since the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill, posing for a photo from Nashville women's shelter in Tennessee, USA.

High uninsured rates and anti-immigrant rhetoric are contributing to health care disparities in Hispanic and Latino communities

A pediatrician distracts a 9-month-old boy to check his heartbeat.

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The presidential candidate raising the most from individual donations in each state

Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis during the NBC News Republican Presidential Primary Debate.

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Biden touts rural achievements as part of "barnstorming" tour

President Joe Biden talks to attendees at Dutch Creek Farms in Dakota County, Minnesota on the first stop of his rural investment tour.

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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

Government & Politics

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.

Government & Politics

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.

Government & Politics

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.”