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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said the high court’s recent decisions on voting and campaign finance have damaged the nation’s democracy. She also faulted a 2019 decision removing the court from oversight of partisan gerrymandering. ht…

The #Undertale wrangling team is making changes to how we handle additional tags for works inspired by other Undertale fanworks, including Alternate Universe tags to make it easier for readers to filter fanwork-inspired. Read more at: ao3-…

Sunny, the Obamas’ rambunctious Portuguese water dog, died Tuesday at the age of 13, the former president said. She was “always loyal, always sweet, always ready for adventure, still fiery and gorgeous till the very end of her days,” Obam…

Democrats have filed a lawsuit against President Trump and the Justice Department, alleging that the Trump administration is unlawfully interfering with the midterms by pressuring states to remove voters from their rolls.

Sunny, a rambunctious Portuguese water dog that President Obama got at the start of his second term in the White House, died Tuesday at the age of 13, the former president announced.

Two prominent Texas Republicans said this week that they voted for a Democrat, James Talarico, over Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton in the race for an open Senate seat.

The family of Chandika Kumari Shrestha had started the ritual of mourning her death, believing she had died in Nepal’s floods. Ten days later, rescuers found her alive inside her collapsed home. https://wapo.st/3UABt9S

Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are fighting extradition to Britain over allegations of rape, assault and sex trafficking, will remain in jail, a judge ruled. The pair failed to prove they are not flight risks or a danger to the community, t…

Knees will alter as we age. Some of the changes seem inevitable. Others could be malleable, meaning we have some control over our knees’ futures. Here's how to take care of those hinge joints — yes, even as early as your 20s:

Georgia's Tybee Island saw a record 59 loggerhead sea turtle nests this year, part of a broader rebound for the species in the Southeast. The state recorded 4,174 nests, the most since 1989. According to biologists, conservation efforts a…

Ads intended for voters in Portland, Maine, were accidentally played some 2,500 miles away, in Portland, Oregon. Voters in Oregon were confused why they were seeing attacks aimed at Troy Jackson, who is running as a Democrat for U.S. Sena…

The last time a Democrat won a Senate race in Mississippi, the party’s candidate this year, Scott Colom, hadn’t been born. Now Colom has top Democratic officials and donors increasingly hopeful that he could pull off the inconceivable.