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From candidate swaps to assassination attempts, the final months of the campaign has been a whirlwind. Here's why the outcome is so conseque...

They don’t get as much attention as the presidential election, but state government races play a crucial role in the laws that govern our li...

Puerto Rico is holding elections that will be historic regardless of which of the top two gubernatorial candidates wins.

Striking machinists voted to approve an agreement that will hike wages by 38%. The deal was endorsed by union leaders, who warned that Boein...

Washington state's governor activated the National Guard to stand by to help local law enforcement as needed. Meanwhile, extra security is i...

In Florida, the most populous of the 10 states to vote on abortion rights this year, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has made multiple attempts...

This Russian dissident believes the country must be changed from within. He and others were traded in the largest prisoner swap in the post-...

Various state rules regarding when election officials can process and count mail-in ballots means it will likely take some time after Electi...

Despite its substantial-sounding name, the Electoral College isn’t a permanent body: It’s more of a process. For decades, a majority of Amer...

If reelected, Trump would only be the second president to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s. Here's a loo...

Moldova’s pro-Western President Maia Sandu has won a second term in a pivotal presidential runoff against a Russia-friendly opponent, in a r...

Polls show a historic gender gap in the 2024 election. Democrats are reminding conservative women: votes are a secret and they can vote for...

More than two dozen local officials in swing states have refused to certify elections in recent years. A case in Nevada shows attorneys gene...

In Ukraine’s industrial east, near the front line in the almost 3-year-old war with Russia, Ukrainians are bracing for a U.S. election they...

Much of the world is following the U.S. presidential election, but probably nowhere more closely than in Ukraine. Ukrainians worry what a ch...

Health workers say they won't be able to vaccinate all the children they had planned to reach because of ongoing fighting.

California lawmakers introduced over a dozen first-in-the-nation reparations bills this year, as reparations proponents across the country w...

The Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy is raising up the next generation of Christian leaders focused on social justice. It's...

For some Christians in the U.S., the 2020 Covid lockdowns fueled the belief that they were being politically persecuted, prompting them to n...

How is the election playing out across the country’s workplaces? So far it has included lots of tense conversations around the water cooler...

The imprisonment of Reza Valizadeh, acknowledged to the AP by the U.S. State Department, came as Iran marked the 45th anniversary of the Ame...

Women in the federal wildland firefighting corps are organizing so they don't have to give up their often arduous, itinerant jobs when they...

Russian dissidents, who were exchanged in a prisoner swap, are trying to stay relevant abroad, planning a protest in Berlin and advocating f...

Even before Election Day, unsubstantiated rumors about voter fraud are beginning to focus on specific public servants and voters, leading to...

Independent polling organizations say that the results of parliamentary elections in the Eurasian country of Georgia indicate "manipulation"...