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Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General to investigate possible criminal ethics violations committed by seven members of the 2026 FD...

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After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that “we want honesty in our elections,” he led them in a pledge to “cheat like hell” and “go out and vo...

WASHINGTON — Today, the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, calling for an investigation into whether four employees in the Executive Office ...

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum is a reminder that voting by mail with absentee ballots in the U.S. goes back more than 160 years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Trump said Sunday that NBC News’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker will be reported to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after she reportedly said that Tru…

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”

Georgia Congressman Mike Collins is using public funds to pay a political ad firm — the same firm that makes his Senate campaign ads.

Since the beginning of his second term, President Trump and his administration have renewed their efforts to undermine Americans’ freedom to vote.

Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational, that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical cancer deaths. This is sh...

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

The president secures a get-out-of-jail-free card for tax improprieties, just as he’s hauling in record amounts of cash.

Franklin, Tennessee, resident Peggy Kingsbury never expected that her civic involvement would lead to threats from neo-Nazis. Here is what she learned.

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to be preparing to drop a nearly two-year criminal investigation of Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, agreeing to return or destroy evidence seized from him.

By weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.