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The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their influence spending amid legal battles with state ...

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“I think this is federal overreach," the board's lone Democrat warned.

“I don’t know if they feel confident. Some counties are more confident than others,” Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Elections Officials, said. “Right now what we’r...

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Researchers warn these “heat islands” could have a “remarkable influence on communities and regional welfare,” and affect more than 340 million people.

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.

The administration keeps closing off public spaces the president claimed to be saving.

"It’s time to stop making taxpayers subsidize luxury private jet travel and use our resources to green other industries," said one of the report's authors.

From Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, American Doctor follows three American physicians—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—united by a single oath to save lives. After volunteering in besi...

Fossil fuel giants have caused $28 trillion in climate damages, more than all goods and services produced in the US last year. Who will hold them accountable for the destruction they've caused? It's t...

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

Amy Westervelt’s new book exposes the deep history of today’s “information pollution.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio defends deadly boat bombings in the Caribbean, claiming to target "narco-terrorists."

Rebuilding the sea wall could add hundreds of millions of dollars to the project’s cost and push a completion date years down the road.

Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the ...

FBI agents quickly identified a Saudi suspect who helped two of the 9/11 hijackers. But families of the victims are demanding to know what happened in the bureau’s investigation of Omar al-Bayoumi.

With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice...

An artisanal mining boom driven by war and poverty is causing a public health emergency, as chemicals poison soil, water and society

Editor’s note: I’ve been floored by the onrushing climate disasters taking place across our rapidly heating planet this summer. It’s been the longest time