The abuse suffered by officials is fueling an exodus from the field. More than one-third of local election officials know at ...

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A lawsuit forced the Metropolitan Police Department to reveal how it uses social media surveillance tools to track First ...

As national security agencies race to adopt AI, it is critical that Congress and the Biden administration shore up oversight ...

Preliminary FBI data, however imperfect, confirms a sharp downward trend in crime, undercutting attempts to blame criminal ...

Since Dobbs, however, opponents of reproductive rights have maneuvered to tie voters’ hands on the subject. Arizona has ...

In a 4–3 decision this week, the New York Court of Appeals overturned disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein’s sex-crimes ...

By amplifying the value of small donations, public financing turns a challenge for women candidates — reliance on a broad ...

Many of the justices seemed uninterested in addressing the facts of Trump’s case. Over the course of the nearly three-hour ...

Former President Trump’s criminal charges may be a historic first for the United States, but prosecuting national leaders for ...

This past week, quickly and with little public awareness, Congress markedly expanded government’s power to snoop on its ...

The strong, sensible rules for how the federal government can use AI give agencies far too much discretion to opt out of ...