New York state Senator Zellnor Myrie cast his ballot in person during the early vote period in his state's June primary. He’d applied for an absentee ballot —which didn’t arrive in his mailbox until a...

Republicans and Democrats in Congress are still in active talks to reform policing on the federal level

Eduarda Alvarez was planning to take a vacation with her husband this year to celebrate finally becoming a U.S. citizen. The retired nursing home staffer immigrated to the U.S. in 1986 from Nicaragua. She tried...

Val Demings' past as Orlando's top cop could be an asset in the Democratic veep stakes--or a liability

Demonstrations over racial justice have continued in dozens of cities across the nation for the past several weeks, but few protest sites have illustrated the dissonance between the Trump Administration and the Black Lives Matter...

Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman is worried. In her state, counting ballots typically entails election officials working shoulder to shoulder, sometimes hundreds to a room. It’s a scene that’s nearly unimaginable in the era...