Roxbury is pushing back on plans for a new detention facility, claiming DHS is violating environmental regulations. Other ...

When the supreme court in Wyoming struck down an abortion ban in January, it cited a state constitutional amendment adopted in 2012 that affirmed a right for people to make their own health care ...

As tech products play an increasingly integral role in all of our lives, they’re generating a trove of personal data that ...

Abigail Spanberger blocked a bill to bar prosecutors from pressuring Virginians to waive protections against unreasonable ...

We’re tracking elections across 12 states. Virginia and Wisconsin have statewide contests, school board races test conservative messaging, and parties battle to control cities, counties, and even ...

In 2019, while incarcerated at the Centennial Correctional Facility in Colorado and assigned to shifts in the kitchen, Nadia Reed refused to work for two days in one month. All incarcerated people in ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...

Supporters of Eileen Higgins, a candidate for Miami mayor, outside Miami City Hall in November 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have ...

Before Arkansas officials announced their plan to build a 3,000-bed prison in the rural northwest corner of the state, Colt Shelby hadn’t voted in at least 15 years. Shelby, who works in the oil and ...

German Gonzalez grew up about an hour south of Stanford University, in a dusty California farming town where the apples for Martinelli’s sparkling cider are juiced and packaged. In high school, he ...

Voters in Lewiston, Maine, here pictured in 2022, will decide a competitive state House seat critical to control of the state government this year. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Democrats hold the ...

Voting rights advocates have sought for decades to reverse Virginia’s lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions, a 124-year-old Jim Crow relic designed to uphold white supremacy. In a ...