In 2018, Florida residents voted overwhelmingly to end that policy in the state before Gov. Ron DeSantis and a Republican-controlled legislature put up additional barriers to voting rights restoration ...

In South Carolina, none of the five supreme court justices are women. It’s the only such court in the nation without a female justice. “It’s an embarrassment,” said Kaye Hearn, a former justice on the ...

The 37-year-old stays close to home. If he gets COVID-19, his family fears for his life. That’s because Foster has Down syndrome, and he lives in Alabama, where people with “severe mental retardation ...

Undercounting and underfunding homeless students. The bill would also require a school district’s homeless liaison to inform parents and guardians about student rights and eligibility for support ...

Iowa eliminated nine days of early voting. New Hampshire took away ballot drop boxes. And Georgia made providing water to voters waiting in line a crime. In many states, nearly all controlled by ...

The Center for Public Integrity is releasing a dataset of polling place locations used in the 2020 general election to help journalists and researchers analyze access to the ballot box and the ...

Religious employers and their advocates praised the decision. In requiring religious employers to cover birth control, the Obama administration “was giving them a really tough choice,” Maria ...

His next book, “Monumental Myths of the Modern Medical Mafia and the Mainstream Media and Multitude of Lying Liars that Manufactured Them,” recounted how he “woke up” while researching cancer, ...

HIV is surging in the South, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has designated “the epicenter” of an emerging crisis particularly affecting seven states spanning from Texas to ...

The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, a private Massachusetts residential and day school, has for decades used shock therapy on students with developmental and emotional disabilities to curb ...

Between January 2018 and April 2023, ORR’s National Call Center — a 24-hour phone helpline created to advise and connect unaccompanied minors and their families with local resources during a crisis — ...

The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...