Do you know what extraordinary event occurred exactly 200 years ago on America’s 50th Independence Day, July 4, 1826?

Major Gordon Cooper was not a random UFO witness. He was one of America’s original Mercury astronauts, and during his final ...

So-called Magpie Syndrome. An attraction to glittery, shiny objects, and an overwhelming compulsion to steal and hoard them. Just look at a random list of things Murrell illicitly collected. Silver ...

Triggering alarms. The people demanded a Louvre heist movie. They’re getting one. A Paris production company is producing a ...

According to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, which is in charge of running the county's elections, about 12,700 mail-in ballots across the county (not just in the city of Los ...

BOISE, Idaho — Inside the Idaho State Capitol, the old-fashioned sound of a lottery spinner decided the fate of eight counties and precincts. On Friday, the Idaho Secretary of State's Office announced ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized the high court in a talk Monday, saying its decision to expedite a ruling in a major voting rights case this month made it appear political.

Hearing about the recent Supreme Court decision altering the 1965 Voting Rights Act started me thinking about a local connection to how the law of long ago had been passed. As black and white ...

In a 6-3 decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district, ruling it an unconstitutional gerrymander. The ruling has significant implications ...

Footage from key moments in the history of the Voting Rights Act.Credit... Supported by By Audra D. S. Burch Emily Cochrane and Jamie Leventhal The Voting Rights Act, among the most consequential ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the civil rights movement. By Sonia A. Rao The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday kicked yet another leg out from under the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 civil rights law that Chief Justice John Roberts’ court has repeatedly undermined over the ...