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The question ultimately landed in front of the Supreme Court, which ruled in 1996 that the decision not to adjust the numbers had been within the secretary’s discretion. But the undercount issue...

Atmospheric rivers are hugely influential for California’s weather and water supplies. They cause the state’s heaviest rains and feed the biggest floods. They drive its cycles of dry and wet, famine and...

WASHINGTON — For just about all of the nation’s history, politicians would fight over redistricting for a short period after each once-a-decade census, then forget about congressional maps until the next reapportionment.Now,...

With some California mountain towns still buried in snow from weeks of cold-weather storms, a warm and potentially dangerous storm began to move into the state on Thursday, bringing heavy rain, wind...

WASHINGTON — A mysterious incident has loomed over a fight in Congress over reauthorizing an expiring warrantless surveillance law: About three years ago, an Federal Bureau of Investigation analyst violated the rules...

As a theory of poverty, “exploitation” elicits a muddled response, causing us to think of course and but, no in the same instant. The word carries a moral charge, but social scientists...

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, was hospitalized on Wednesday night after tripping at a hotel in Washington, D.C., his spokesman said.“This evening, Leader McConnell tripped at a local hotel...

WASHINGTON — President Biden plans to travel next week to Monterey Park, Calif., where a gunman killed 11 people at a dance studio in January, to call for tougher gun control measures...

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday will propose policies aimed at trimming federal budget deficits by $3 trillion over the next 10 years as his administration embraces the politics of debt reduction...

WASHINGTON — The House panel investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic opened its first public hearing on Wednesday with Republicans and their witnesses making an aggressive case that the virus may...