Record voter turnout and conspiracies Absentee voting surged in the 2020 election, conducted in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. States scrambled to craft policies that allowed more voters to cast ...

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, ...

“Does this explain everything about gun ownership?” Buttrick said. “No, of course not. What we think it helps us to think about is where does protective gun ownership come from, what is the history.

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Reading Time: 5 minutes As discussions about reparations for Black Americans gain some ground, the first state with a task force on the issue is hearing that it needs to think bigger. African ...

Reading Time: 6 minutes A leading advocate for homeless rights in Congress says the federal government must do a better job helping schools identify and assist students who are experiencing housing ...

As community groups press the city to force closure of old wells, they often are countered by labor groups and the industry, which repeatedly have challenged Los Angeles’ authority to go further than ...

Reading Time: 6 minutes In March, President Donald Trump phoned into the show “Fox & Friends” on Fox News to talk about his negotiations over a coronavirus aid bill. Democrats in Congress had been ...

Reading Time: 4 minutes During the pandemic’s first year, schools across the country lost track of more than 400,000 homeless students. As schools reopened their doors for in-person learning this year ...

Reading Time: 5 minutes This article was published in partnership with Stateline. The first installment of a new national data release that will help journalists and researchers analyze polling place ...

Taking them out of class could worsen their chances of success. But an analysis of data in California shows the state’s homeless students are suspended at higher rates than their peers. California ...

Reading Time: 5 minutes For decades in Houston, where resident Bryan “Lucas” Parras grew up near the city’s shipping channel, neighborhoods have faced the cumulative impacts of toxic emissions. The ...