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In early August, election workers north of Spokane, Washington, went across the street to the post office to check for late mail-in ballots.

Cindy Napolitan and her daughter Melissa have multiple sclerosis, a degenerative condition in which the immune system attacks the brain, spinal cord and nerves.

US funding for overseas nongovernment organizations (NGOs) is now at risk.

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Student-led anti-corruption and cost-of-living protests in Albania are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama, among other demands.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr on Wednesday threatened broadcasters that cover what he described as “fake polls,” which he said hurt “voter turnout and enthusiasm.”

Paris, France — The march on the iconic Place de la République in the French capital had barely begun when riot police — known as the Compagnies républicaines de sécurité, or CRS — fired tear gas in the square.

Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Amy Acton has responded to a political ad produced by her Republican opponent Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign, which features her mother — whom she’s been estranged from for decades — describing Acton as a liar.

A little girl walks into a bathroom and screams.

A new poll demonstrates that voters are deeply skeptical over whether President Donald Trump will accept the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections, which Democrats are currently favored to win.

As a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit, Jean Stone knows what it really means to live in a country with no paid parental leave.

Regulators in Texas did not stop processing permits for data center projects when Gov.

On September 22, The Free Press attacked the California Faculty Association (CFA), which represents about 29,000 faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches across the California State University (CSU) system.

The Trump administration has stripped protections from unaccompanied migrant children and undocumented minors to fast-track deportations, a new lawsuit challenging the administration argues.

In the first few weeks of October, three national pollsters asked three different questions about transgender issues, and all three landed in the same place from different angles: the anti-transgender ads this year may be backfiring on Republican strategi…

The leader of the movement that opposed separatists’ efforts to achieve independence for the Canadian province of Alberta said Monday night that voters’ resounding rejection of the secession push would “send a very strong message to the rest of the world,”

Former Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil has filed a request to the Supreme Court, asking it to overturn an appellate court’s ruling that could lead to his being detained and deported by the Trump administration

Mississippi’s attorney general announced Monday that the police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in June “was justified.”

For decades, Barbara and David Green, the billionaire couple behind the craft store chain Hobby Lobby, have tried to shape the country according to their white evangelical worldview.

We speak with the acclaimed South African human rights lawyer and international jurist Navi Pillay, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee are demanding that the Trump administration release official figures about the true economic costs of the war in Iran.

Texas’ rapidly growing data center industry could reverse much of the state’s progress on air quality by the end of the decade, according to a new report released Tuesday.

Anthropic, one of the major industry leaders in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), has proposed legislation for Congress that would provide a framework for regulating the technology, with strict limits on which government agencies can halt AI

Local governments in Virginia are under mounting pressure to cancel contracts for surveillance cameras known as automated license plate readers (ALPRs).

As the Trump administration makes plans to task private debt collectors with going after millions of student borrowers in default on their federal loans, officials are reportedly pushing for the effort to begin after the midterm elections — as they grapple

Courts can create violence simply by putting words on paper.

On Saturday, France saw its largest nationwide protests in years, as popular outrage over the rising cost of living converged with a month-long student movement against the country’s neglected public education system.

Israeli settlers backed by IDF soldiers brutally assaulted Palestinian olive farmers in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, on Friday.

A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning, his daughter and U.S.

Appearing on Fox News over the weekend, border czar Tom Homan gave the starkest indication yet that the administration is moving forward with plans to “denaturalize” Rep.

Michigan Democratic candidate for U.S.

Millions of dollars have been spent on AI during this year’s midterm election campaign, oftentimes through candidates using the technology to depict their opponents in fictional situations, portraying them in negative ways to unsuspecting voters.

Organizers launched more than 2,500 No Kings events across all 50 states and the District of Columbia Saturday, this time focusing their efforts on the midterm elections.

Craig Unit 1, a coal-fired power plant distinguished by tall exhaust smokestacks that rise above a rolling landscape in northwestern Colorado, was scheduled to close for good at the end of 2025 amid pressure from environmental advocates, public interest g…

Kamora Greggs returned to her college campus with voting on her mind.

As a 27-year-old English literature graduate and English teacher from Gaza, I have always been passionate about teaching.

Thousands of volunteer canvassers are hitting the streets across California, fighting for a first-of-its-kind wealth tax on the state’s ballot on November 3.

Last month, I joined more than 45 bus drivers, teachers, and government workers to testify before the Washington State Investment Board, demanding responsible investment of our pension funds.

More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese immigrants are bracing for the possibility they’ll lose their humanitarian protections by Monday.

Oil and gas companies will now be permitted to kill polar bears and Pacific walruses off the northern coast of Alaska so long as such killings are “unintentional,” according to a new Trump administration rule.

A Texas woman is using a state law banning the transport of abortion pills to sue members of the anti-abortion organization Students for Life of America.

The U.S. government has long sought to incapacitate the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world’s first global court that was created to prosecute the most atrocious crimes.

Earlier this month, after a series of stops and starts, the U.S.

Democrats for Mike Rogers, a group that has spent millions of dollars to defeat Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, has received funds from Republican-aligned organizations, campaign finance records show.

Longtime tech worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan’s new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry, draws on the authors’ experiences at major tech companies to chronicle the rise and fall of the tech w…

Israeli settlers conducting an assault on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amid their autumn olive harvest also attacked a U.S. journalist on Friday, sending her to the hospital as she and other journalists were documenting the coordinated violent r…

Days after the Trump administration’s unprecedented raid of Rep.

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Oscar Belgal, the 28-year-old Dominican man shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New York City last Thursday, has not received surgery to remove a bullet lodged in his neck for over a week.