Daniel DiDonato, 18, drafted new state senate districts at home on free software – and a judge picked his map ahead of professionals’ efforts to remedy voting rights violations

Local communities are hosting events where people can bring in their broken goods for repairs—free of charge.

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

The removal of dams, and the river's restoration, is "a great David-and-Goliath story."

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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In the 1980s, beach cleanups were envisaged as citizen science, aimed squarely at industrial pollution.

Just how bad is The Situation at the Justice Department?

The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

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We’re raising $1,500,000 for 10 AI-controlled air defense turrets that will protect Ukrainians from russian attacks.

US Border Patrol travelled 300 Miles for a 'targeted' operation. Rights groups say it was anything but targeted.

Villagers in Cameroon have denounced the use of tear gas by authorities to break up their protest on March 25 against the replanting of oil palm trees by the plantation company Socapalm on disputed…

Ordinary people have more power than they know.

“It feels like whatever the SCOTUS ruling is, this is just going to be a sort of an ongoing, non-stop battle.”

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March 20 is International Happiness Day — a day that the United Nations had dedicated to the celebration of joy. We asked photographers around the world to share a picture that can bring bliss.

Case filed in Turkish court against outsourcing giant Telus Digital by moderators who claim they were fired after trying to unionise

Bill Gates is quietly ending his green energy policy and advocacy organization, laying off employees throughout the US and Europe.

VOA's signal for 83 years crossed borders and ideologies—now its silence will speak volumes.

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