Even conservatives “agree that the decision about healthcare ought to be between a person and their provider,” El-Sayed said.

Candace Tiana Nelson is eyeing a run in Ward 4, but new allegations could complicate a bid.

Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

This is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.

A new law will restore voting rights for tens of thousands of people on probation and parole. It’s a departure from other GOP bills this session to restrict democracy.

South Carolina's procedure for filling ballot vacancies will disenfranchise overseas and military voters in violation of federal law

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Advocates say it's too easy to abuse automated license plate reader technology.

Relatives of David Brouillette told reporters he was the agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. They also alleged he has physically and verbally abused women in his life.

Anna Liedtke files criminal complaint in Israel over alleged attack by female guards and says abuse was intended to silence campaigners The third time Anna Liedtke was subjected to an illegal strip-search in Israeli detention, female prison guards forced her on to her knees, covered her mouth to stop her screaming and raped her, according to interviews and a criminal complaint filed in Israel. She described hearing male guards laughing during the attack, which she believes they watched and may have filmed. It took place in an area separated from the prison hallway by a partially drawn curtain that her attackers had left open. Continue reading...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is pulling his National Guard early from Washington, D.C. as the chorus against Democratic governors sending troops to the city amid President Trump's ongoing deployment grows louder.

Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.

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Mesa’s longtime partnership with ICE has emerged as a major fault line in the July elections, as organizers work to limit local collaboration with federal immigration authorities.

A teacher and a parent in Fairfax County sued a conservative social media account for defamation and won. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

"Tell them to arrest me," the agent can be heard saying. "Tell them. I dare you. Who’s going to arrest me?”

The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.

Kenyan McDuffie says D.C. needs teen curfews. Janeese Lewis George argues that's playing into the Trump administration's hand.

In a recount request, Trump-backed state senate candidate Paula Copenhaver argues 11 people voted illegally under a seldom-enforced 1986 state law.

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The cutbacks will require citizens of countries without a hub to travel to an approved site to apply.

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