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BOSTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Deaton and Democrat candidate Seth Moulton agreed Monday to an inter-party debate ahead of September’s primary — as incumbent candidate Sen. Ed Markey remained quiet on ...Read more

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alaska Legislature narrowly voted to sustain Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a sweeping elections reform bill Monday.

In a 38-22 vote, lawmakers fell two votes shy of the 40 votes needed to override ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took a first step Monday to consider anti-abortion challenges to medication that has been commonly used to end early pregnancies for 25 years.

The justices moved quickly to put on hold an ...Read more

As the nation observes its 250th birthday, historians can help settle one present-day dispute: Is the United States a democracy or a republic?

For years, advocates have argued the point.

Yet the question...Read more

Thursday marked 60 days since the start of Trump’s failed war in Iran. The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) gives Congress the power “To declare War,” and the War Powers Resolution of 1973 — enacted over ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on an appeals court ruling from Friday that was blocking remote access to an abortion drug, restoring access until at least May 11.

The administrative stay, issued by Justice...Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party was set to secure its first-ever election victory in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, expanding its support base across the country and bolstering his standing as the nation�...Read more

Colombians face a hard, familiar choice in this month’s presidential election: negotiate with violent criminals, or go back to war against them.

Voters must decide whether to continue President Gustavo Petro’s “...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Democratic campaign arm is adding eight more candidates in competitive districts – including several locked in messy primaries – to its list of contenders eligible for additional resources.

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Embarking on a second term about six months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority struck down the federal right to abortion, Gov. JB Pritzker declared in his January 2023 inaugural address that the new ...Read more

Suddenly, artificial intelligence is everywhere we look. Three years ago, I had no exposure to it personally, but now it tries to auto-populate my emails, shows up at the top of my online searches and answers my consumer ...Read more

As a people, we feel lost. Our political life is full of division and animosity. Our society struggles to find its sense of meaning. Violence erupts far too often. And beyond our borders, we find ourselves embroiled in ...Read more

There is much debate around the world regarding both physician-assisted dying legislation—often called "Death with Dignity"—and expanding the circumstances in which it is applicable. Eight countries and 19 states ...Read more

We Americans have always felt anxious about our democracy. As Benjamin Franklin famously said, ours is only “a republic, if you can keep it,” and we’ve been plagued by a nagging feeling ever since that we can’t. ...Read more

School’s almost out for summer, great news for class-weary kids looking forward to a break. For Chicago Public Schools, though, the year is winding up in the red.

CPS is projected to end the current school year with a $...Read more

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cautiously praised the hard-won Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a “great step forward” toward removing obstacles that kept Black Americans from voting.

It was. But this week, in striking ...Read more

India begins counting votes in several key states on Monday, providing a barometer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity in the face of heightened economic challenges.

The stakes are particularly high in the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will begin guiding some neutral ships trapped in the Persian Gulf out through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday.

“The Ship movement is merely meant to free up people, companies, ...Read more

Calling for an end to economic inequality and the creeping political power of billionaires, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders joined prominent Minnesota progressives in Rochester on Saturday, May 2, urging people to organize.

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