Both Texas Republicans and Democrats are ratcheting up their rhetoric over proposed US House maps that could give the GOP ...

One by one, delegates at the United Nations expressed support for a new panel of scientists who would advise countries on how to address chemicals and toxic waste. But the U.S. delegate took the ...

The Supreme Court has been whittling away the VRA’s legal protections for years. Now it's poised to reconsider one of the act ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.

The Voting Rights Act was signed 60 years ago today. It was the culmination of a hard-fought campaign by civil rights activists in the South. Now, a Georgia Democrat in Congress is leading the push to ...

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 6, the 218th day of 2025. There are 147 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on ...

It might sound radical, because only two states — Maine and Vermont — allow people with felony convictions to vote from ...

Seventeen years ago, my family and I voted for Barack Obama, America’s first Black president. Back then, I had a say and a ...

In 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later an atomic bomb hit ...

Our state has erected what may be the most restrictive ballot access regime in America, creating a protective fortress around ...

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches calling for Black voting rights is being reconstructed in its entirety at a museum near Detroit.