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Do you know your state's senators?

Voting by mail faces uncertain moment ahead of midterm elections

Election workers sorting mail-in ballots at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters office on October 21, 2024 in San Jose, California.

How local governments are partnering with crime scene cleanup companies

A pressure wash cleaner working on a dirty brick wall.

Inside the movement to professionalize election administration

A photograph of Lydia McComas, 28, the new city clerk in Madison, Wisconsin, decided in college that she wanted to be in the election administration field.

The invisible labor of women who love incarcerated people

An inmate gives his daughter a hug and kiss during Father's Day at Joe Kegans State Jail's visiting hall.

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'A direct attack on science': Trump's return is rattling gun violence researchers

White House illuminated to mark Gun Violence Awareness in June 2024

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These states already restrict abortion. Their legislatures could push it even further.

Abortion rights demonstrators gather near the State Capitol in Austin, Texas.

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'Perverse' incentives: How local governments might cash in on Trump's migrant detention

Caroline Detention Facility in Bowling Green, Virginia, a former regional jail, has been contracted by the US Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house undocumented adult immigrant detainees for violations of immigration laws.

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How one city scrambled to resolve a tied election vote

Close up of three wooden dice on a desktop, one in sharp focus, with a gray background.

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Yes, politics is worsening people's mental health—Here's what the data shows

A custom illustration showing concepts of anxiety and panic stemming from reading news online.

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How Meagan Wolfe navigates intense scrutiny to make elections and her peers stronger

Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe, left, during a Elections Commissions meeting.

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Summary of Trump's first-term executive orders on the administrative state that Biden repealed in 2021

Donald Trump signing an executive order withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC back in January 23, 2017.

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Texas lawmakers are mostly silent on addressing threats to ballot secrecy

Poll workers return voting equipment to central county station workers.

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Lending program for natural disaster relief is on a Project 2025 chopping block

Workers at the Small Business Administration’s Business Recovery Center in Maryland talking to Governor Wes Moore.

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The true, massive cost of Trump's mass deportation plans

Trump at a campaign rally at McCamish Pavilion on October 28, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.