Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

Communicating with your child about what they're reading can be a better approach than banning books at the library.

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Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

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Track the Trump administration’s federal funding disruptions state by state — what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.

We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime.

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Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

Alt: Judge Judy: Git Yer Butt Home! Pointing to her watch.

Alt: Victorian woman ill in bed looking like death with overlaid text "Me in bed right now"

We are left with a court that is not only unaccountable, but utterly unmoored from internal restraints on its own power.

Alt: Bird Box: Sandra Bullock Blindfolded trying to figure out if there's danger nearby

Many are running for pivotal state-level roles like governor or secretary of state that wield enormous power to undermine a fair election.

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The House was able to strip millions from the WIC program meant to help pregnant women and kids.

Amid its water crisis, the city declined to supply public records on the Bitcoin mine's usage, citing a state law that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account.