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Susan Collins Heads Into Maine Primary Carrying a Voting Record That Often Put Her at Odds With Her Own Party

Susan Collins entered Maine's primary election Tuesday seeking a sixth term in the U.S. Senate, carrying a voting record that has often put her at odds with leaders of her own party in Washington. After nearly 30 years in office, she remains one of...

Michigan House Review Hones In On $300 Million Rx Kids Program as Stipends Reach 60 Michigan Locations

Michigan's Rx Kids program is drawing fresh attention inside the state Capitol as lawmakers review a cash assistance effort that has received over $300 million in state and federal funding. Flint served as the launch point for the program in 2024....

Two Men Never Made It Home After Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes and Now the Government Wants Their Lawsuit Thrown Out

Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo were traveling back to Trinidad from Venezuela when a U.S. military strike ended their journey on October 14, 2025. Joseph, 26, and Samaroo, 41, were among six people killed after a missile struck their vessel during O...

Two Weeks in a Coma Couldn't Stop This Young Man From Earning His College Degree

Graduation caps filled the air at Virginia State University this spring. For Aszwan Hite, the walk across the stage carried weight far beyond a college diploma. Years earlier, a devastating car crash left him unconscious for two weeks. Surgeons per...

"Flipping the Purpose of Civil Rights Law on Its Head" Education Department Retreats From Longstanding Efforts for Black American Students

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education is scaling back a civil rights approach that for decades targeted racial disparities affecting Black American students. Programs created to raise academic achievement, expand access to advanced coursewor...

"Unfulfilled Justice" Juneteenth Still Forces America to Reckon With Its Greatest Sin

GALVESTON, Texas — More than two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union troops arrived on the Texas coast with news that should have already changed countless lives. On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger delive...

Wanted Fugitive and Two Honduran Rollin 30s Crips Members Found at Eagle Pass Hotel Stash House

Rollin 30s Crips gang members hiding beneath blankets inside an Eagle Pass hotel room became the focus of a Texas Department of Public Safety operation that exposed what authorities described as a human smuggling location in Maverick County. Troope...

"Katie Abraham Lost Her Life" Lawsuit Seeks Release of Urbana Crash Files After Deadly DUI Wreck Involving Guatemalan Citizen

Katie Abraham was 20 years old when a January 2025 collision took her life and the life of 21-year-old Chloe Polzin. More than a year later, attention has shifted from the prison sentence handed down in the criminal case to a legal effort seeking ac...

"Rule of Law" Four Hours of Testimony Fail to Move Battle Ground Mayor Eric Overholser on ICE and Antifa Measures

Mayor Eric Overholser found himself at the center of a packed and emotional city council meeting after signing proclamations backing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization, actions that drew hours...

"Black Women Make Strong Statement" Summer Lee and Keisha Lance Bottoms Punch Their Tickets to November

Summer Lee strengthened her hold on Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District while Keisha Lance Bottoms cleared a major hurdle in Georgia, giving two prominent Black women victories on the same primary night and setting up high profile contests th...

"World Cup Jail" New Detention Center Rises as Kansas City Readies for FIFA

Kansas City is preparing for one of the biggest moments in its history, yet a steel framed holding complex rising near Front Street has become nearly as talked about as the World Cup itself. Construction crews have been racing to finish the 100 be...

"We Don't Set Our Own Wages" 100,000 Illinois Drivers Move Closer to Bargaining With Uber and Lyft

Uber and Lyft drivers who spent months making trips to Springfield say the battle was never just about union recognition. It was about watching fuel receipts grow, repair bills stack up and accounts disappear from an app with little warning while th...

"Others Doubted Me" Karen Bass Asks Los Angeles for Four More Years But Is She Standing on Shaky Ground?

Karen Bass is asking Los Angeles residents for another four years, but this campaign is unfolding in a place that looks far different than the one that elected her in 2022. Homeless encampments, housing costs, wildfire recovery and confidence in Ci...

"Wake Up and Pay Attention" The Biggest Threat to Some Pregnant Women Isn't Childbirth

Drug overdoses and violent deaths have overtaken several long-recognized medical complications as major causes of death among pregnant and postpartum women in the United States, a shift that is forcing doctors to look beyond delivery rooms and hospi...

"He Pulled His Own Tooth" ICE Detainees Describe Missed Medications, Untreated Illnesses and Medical Delays

An Albanian man held at a New Mexico immigration detention center said the pain in his mouth became so severe that he pulled out his own tooth after waiting months for treatment. A Honduran mother detained in Florida said she ended up in a hospital...