San Diego resident Lee Lor sent hundreds of emails threatening a mass shooting at Shoal Creek Elementary School as replies to random spam emails.

States must balance complying with a civil rights law that protects the voting power of a racial minority while not ...

Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including more federal layoffs and ...

The state’s College Corps awards students $10,000 for tuition and living stipends in exchange for 450 volunteer hours with ...

Jeanne Shaheen’s decision to not seek reelection marks the latest bit of tough luck for Senate Democrats, who face an ...

Some 600,000 federal workers live in competitive Congressional districts across the country. Here's where the GOP could be ...

Bills have been introduced in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey this session.

With the federal law eroded by court decisions, about a half-dozen states want to enshrine protections for non-white voters. But it’s a tough sell even in Democratic states.

Democrats are understandably tempted to solve their current predicament in traditional fashion—confront Trump with a new ...

Seeing federal courts slash away at the Voting Rights Act, some states are seeking to resurrect fallen protections for non-white voters with their own versions of the landmark law passed during the ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic ...

The National Weather Service forecast for the greater San Francisco Bay Area for Thursday calls for mostly sunny skies during the day, with some cloud cover and patchy fog at night.