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Government & Politics

Do you know your state's senators?

When ICE shows up, these businesses will be ready

A store worker showing a "No warrant, No entry" / "Private area" signs behind the counter.

‘They want to keep denying us our rights’: Workers in the dairy industry fight for basic labor protections

Hilario, a dairy worker, who is seen guiding cows onto the milking area in a dairy farm in Vermont, USA.

What the US can teach other countries about home-based child care

A young boy playing with block toys in the corner of a room.

Portugal cleared hundreds of thousands of immigration files. What the backlog means for expats now

Person holding a Portuguese passport.

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Biden touts rural achievements as part of "barnstorming" tour

President Joe Biden talks to attendees at Dutch Creek Farms in Dakota County, Minnesota on the first stop of his rural investment tour.

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Increase in ballot errors coincides with turnover among county election officials in Pennsylvania

Luzerne County official checks ballots on election night in 2023

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Arizona's federal-only voters are concentrated on college campuses, data show

University of Arizona main campus aerial view including University Mall and Old Main Building in Tucson

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Documents show Republican-led states struggling to clean voter rolls after leaving ERIC

Secretaries of state such as Frank LaRose of Ohio (left), Wes Allen of Alabama (center right), and Paul Pate of Iowa (right) led their states to depart from the ERIC program for cross-state voter roll cleaning. Also pictured is U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana (center left) at a news conference in July in Washington, D.C.

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Michigan to automatically register people to vote when exiting prison

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station in Detroit. Americans made their ways to the polls on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, to vote in the heated midterm elections.

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A government shutdown halts pay for 2.8 million federal workers. Here's where it would hit them hardest

The Capital Building with police tape around it reading 'shutdown'

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Rural communities still at a disadvantage when competing for government grants

Photo Illustration showing the US Capitol building superimposed alongside gold-colored dollar signs over a rural landscape

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Harris County election shows progress. But challenges remain ahead of 2024.

Voters cast their ballots at the West Gray Multiservice Center during Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Houston.

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Working the polls cleared up one Pennsylvanian's 2020 election suspicions. Now he's taking charge as a judge of elections.

John "Jay" Schneider, 76, in Downingtown, Pa., on Oct. 30. Schneider is serving as a judge of elections for the first time, overseeing the Caln Township polling place. “You don’t know how much responsibility is there, and you don’t want to screw it up.”

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Violent crime is up … and also down, according to new federal data

Crime scene tape, yellow