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The Medical Aid in Dying Act allows New Yorkers who have no more than six months to live and meet a strict set of requirements to request life-ending medication from their health care providers.

The Houston-based Burke Law Group was awarded the federal contract despite only having two lawyers on staff who specialize in immigration law.

Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated his centrist, well-funded opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, in Michigan’s Senate primary race.

Sybil Wilkes delivers news on shifting politics, climate impacts, and inspiring youth stories.

Enforcement becomes political violence when state force is deployed at scale in ways that discipline whole communities beyond the person immediately seized.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has demanded that hospitals send them private medical data. Kinda weird for an agency focused on product recalls.

Sen. Rand Paul led the Senate hearing that was mostly spent attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci over his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

President Donald Trump’s executive order placing significant restrictions on mail-in ballots has already been blocked by several federal judges.

Mitch McConnell released a second "proof-of-life" photo that is as baffling as the first, and no one believes he is still alive.

President Donald Trump’s crusade against mail-in voting has consistently failed, with several courts blocking his attempts to restrict the practice. 

The exhibit, which opened in 2010, honors the lives of the nine enslaved people held there who were owned as property by President George Washington.

While some see July 4th as a symbol of national pride and possibility, others see it as a celebration of a freedom that has never fully included them.