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A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that found Mississippi relies too much on institutionalizing people with mental health conditions rather than providing care in their communities

General CQ Brown has been confirmed as chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, despite a months-long Senate blockade.

Sens. Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer sharply criticized both Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, who has been preventing a vote on April Perry and three other U.S. attorney nominees, and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., who has been holding up military promotions.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration says it has taken a series of recent steps to improve the accuracy of the state’s voter rolls, including entering into new data-sharing agreements with five states and Washington, D

In many nations in the immediate post-war period, women were more often supporters of rightwing parties than men. This “traditional” gender gap was supposedly underpinned by women’s greater religiosity and lower exposure to the social institutions of the left, such as trade unions.

Surveillance video of a woman in Connecticut stuffing papers into an absentee ballot drop box has prompted an investigation into possible election fraud

Georgia attorneys said that merely performing a role in the presidential election did not make them federal officials

The Ohio Redistricting Commission has adopted new Republican-drawn Statehouse maps for public discussion

Both of the candidates running in the Nov. 7, 2023, general election for Falcon School District 49 school board District 2 — Candace Lehmann (nonpartisan) and Debra Schmidt (nonpartisan) — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for office.

NAACP and ACLU called on Supreme Court to deny state lawmakers’ request to defy major ruling

Ballotpedia tracked two new state-level candidates in Colorado between Sept. 11 and Sept. 17. This was one more candidate than the prior week.