If you're using the U.S. Postal Service to return a ballot close to Election Day, officials recommend getting it postmarked at a post office to avoid getting caught up in mail processing changes.

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

Use the Georgia My Voter Page (MVP) to check your voter registration status, find your polling location, view your county's early voting locations, review your sample ballot for upcoming elections, an...

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Crowns of Courage sessions is a yearly event for special needs children to show kids that fairytales are real!

“I think probably what happened is that people were exposed to a lot wider range of things than we thought might have happened.”

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...

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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.

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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.

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Removing race from the eGFR had a big impact, resulting in 5.3 more kidney transplants per 1000 Black candidates.

Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute, together with European partners, have found that tire pressure sensors in modern cars can unintentionally expose drivers to tracking. Over a ten-week study, th...

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Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.

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How The Fault in Our Stars author and his brother built a powerful forum for change

Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.

The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today on what could be a major change to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates.

Sasha Swinson Sasha Swinson has not stopped visiting Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library, nor has she changed her choice of restroom there since a terse exchange with an officer led to multiple local stories about her and an internal investigation. In October, the Brookhaven trans woman says she was misgendered and verbally accosted by a DeKalb County police officer who was on duty at the library for early voting. The officer, whom the DeKalb County Police Department has not publicly identified, is now under an internal investigation as a result of the incident.

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The FAA, under the Trump administration, is limiting the number of flights that can be made to and from the nation's largest airports, in order to pressure Democratic congresspeople to capitulate to the Republican demands to end the government shutdown. The goal is not safety, it is suffering.

Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT gr...

 The Georgia State Election Board voted to recommend that the state Legislature end no-excuse absentee voting at a Wednesday meeting. Maya Homan/Georgia Recorder When Georgia’s State Election Board considered a proposal to recommend that state lawmakers ban no-excuse absentee voting early last year, the Republican-dominated body shot it down, with then-newly appointed Chair John Fervier casting the deciding vote. But in a Wednesday meeting in Atlanta, a trio of Trump-aligned board members successfully approved a similar proposal in a narrow 3-2 vote. The board will now officially recommend that the state Legislature end a practice that was adopted in Georgia back…

Several news organizations, including The New York Times, NPR and Newsmax, are refusing to sign a new set of restrictions on news gathering inside the Pentagon.