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Show business in California is stalwart in supporting political causes, but rarely does the industry turn on the wattage for, say, a school-finance ballot initiative.Enter Proposition 28, which would channel about $1...

A federal judge in Arizona has sharply curtailed the activities of an election-monitoring group in the vicinity of ballot boxes, including taking photos or videos of voters, openly carrying firearms, posting information...

Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana said this week that he was calling for an investigation into one of the state’s largest juvenile detention centers, after The New York Times documented a...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block a Georgia grand jury subpoena seeking testimony from Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, about his activities in the aftermath of...

Laws need support from the public or the courts to survive. Affirmative action seems to have neither.The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in two cases challenging race-conscious admissions policies at the University...

As many as 14 people, including a 3-year-old child, were wounded in a drive-by shooting in Chicago on Monday night, the police said. There were no immediate reports of fatalities.The injuries ranged...

Children won’t be the only ones looking to score a sweet jackpot on Monday night. While they are trick-or-treating, their parents may be trying to win a prize that could pay for...

The measure he signed this summer included $370 billion in incentives for electric utilities to increase their reliance on low-emission energy sources like solar and nuclear, for consumers to buy electric vehicles...

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — The United States has released the U.S. military’s oldest prisoner of the war on terror, a 75-year-old businessman who was held for nearly two decades as a suspected...

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have watched warily in recent years as threats and harassment against them have crescendoed, privately worrying that the brutal language and deranged misinformation creeping into political discourse...