The open districts are the 34th, 42nd, 65th, 66th, and 67th, now held on the Assembly roster by Tom Lackey, Jacqui Irwin, Mike Gipson, Al Muratsuchi, and Sharon Quirk‑Silva. As first reported by the ...

For the 20th consecutive year, global freedom declined in 2025. That bleak conclusion comes from the nonpartisan, nonprofit Freedom House’s newly released 2026 Freedom in the World report. “Even as ...

Barbara McQuade The Department of Justice in President Donald Trump’s second term has sometimes been referred to as the president’s personal law firm. But that characterization is unfair to law firms.

Boston councilors moved to revive a home‑rule petition letting legal residents vote in municipal elections; the item’s now in ...

Some lawmakers say the Legislature didn't ask voters to settle whether abortion is health care because they fear the pro-abortion lobby will flood ...

Will the pursuit of a closer relationship with the EU risk courting electoral disaster by alienating Brexit-backing voters?

(RNS) — ‘It’s unusual for a president to continue a signature White House office of his predecessor of a different political party,’ said Melissa Rogers, twice director of the White House faith-based ...

Federal and state law bars federal agents from polling places so that voters may cast their ballot freely and without intimidation ...

Our leaders genuflect to so-called Jewish sensibilities, as if Jewish people speak with one emotional voice. We don’t.