In Culver City, California, students are trying to drum up support for a November ballot measure to let 16- and 17-year-olds ...

After driving five hours to visit her son in prison, Anita Wills, 80, found herself in an impossible situation: fish her bra ...

The Trump administration plans to upend the census. They’re proposing to exclude noncitizens from the count that determines the distribution of congressional seats, a move that would subtract ...

Below are the candidates who filed to run for prosecutor by the state’s filing deadline. The information was obtained from state election officials. Candidates for prosecutor in Arkansas do not run ...

The 30 Prosecutor and Sheriff Races that Will Shape Criminal Justice Next Week Michael Barajas, , Daniel Nichanian, April 19, 2022 ...

The midterms will usher in a new cast of characters to oversee the next presidential race. They’ll decide how to answer Trump ...

Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility ...

When the pandemic started in 2020, Celeste Trusty worked furiously to alert public authorities of the dangers the virus posed to people trapped in Pennsylvania’s crowded prisons. As state director of ...

Ramon Mejía was in the swamp for less than a day before he was arrested, but that brief experience made clear the enormity of what he had gone there to protect. Mejía, an Iraq War veteran and anti-war ...

A pair of liberal attorneys say they'll be more aggressive in defense of democracy as they try to oust Georgia justices on May 19, as the Callais ruling may make state courts more pivotal. Two liberal ...

When Danny Tarkenton learned that federal agents had shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last winter, she felt concerned that her local officials would not push back should ...

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 ...