“I voted” stickers rest on a counter at the Pennington County Administration Building during early voting on Jan. 19, 2026, for a municipal...

Civil rights activist Leslie McLemore reflects on the recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act, and what the ruling means for...

The problem has always been about threats to multiracial democracy and the rule of law.

These technologies are a crime-fighting boon, but in the wrong hands they could cost all of us our freedoms.

By Tierney Sneed, Fredreka Schouten, John Fritze, CNN(CNN) — A day after the Supreme Court further gutted the Voting Rights Act, Republic...

The court ruled 6–3 on ideological lines to all but end the protections of the modern Voting Rights Act.

The justices' Voting Rights Act decision will set off a scramble to rig elections for years to come.

The Voting Rights Act was born out of the Civil Rights Movement to open the ballot box to Black Americans who were systematically denied acc...

Written by GARY FIELDS and KIM CHANDLERWASHINGTON (AP) — President Lyndon B. Johnson knew the legislation he was about to sign was momento...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry plans to push back his state's May 16 primary to give state lawmakers time to redraw congressional maps there, af...

Brazil's Senate on Wednesday rejected the nomination of Solicitor General Jorge Messias for an open seat on the Supreme Court, making Presid...

Rev. Bernard LaFayette (center, in wheelchair and cloth cap) holds his wife Kate’s hand as they are wheeled over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in...

The famed Dr. Martin Luther King once declared that he looked “to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by th...