The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated ...

Chicago’s public defenders are among the best-resourced in Illinois, but even there, massive case loads have attorneys and investigators stretched paper-thin. The Cook County Jail has swelled under ...

You can also jump straight to the sections of this guide that break down the key state legislatures, the battle for Congress, attorneys general, state courts, state and local election officials, ...

$171 billion: That’s the gigantic amount that the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the package designed to advance President Trump’s agenda that Congress adopted on Thursday, would pour into federal ...

A member of Spirit Lake Nation was elected to North Dakota’s legislature for the first time last fall thanks to a redistricting lawsuit filed by Jackson-Street’s tribe, alongside the Turtle Mountain ...

In Oklahoma, organizers have to race against the clock to get measures on the ballot. The state has the nation’s shortest window of time for collecting the tens of thousands of signatures needed to ...

As always, this guide is not an exhaustive list of all elections in May, but just our selection of the races to monitor. Voters are also deciding city councilors and county commissioners all around ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill speaks to reporters in January in New Orleans. A new law which dramatically restricts the ability of prisoners to seek post-conviction relief, has been a ...

St. Louis city councilGeneral election This city council race to replace Cara Spencer, who became mayor in April, is unfolding against the backdrop of state Republicans’ heavy crackdown against St.

This spring, she came across a website promoted by a local candidate for prosecutor, John Butler, that painted Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehi as too soft on crime, using a case she’d ...

Kentucky, Mississippi, and Virginia are selecting their state officials on Nov. 7. But hundreds of thousands of people with felony convictions are barred from voting in these states, which have some ...

Audience engagement editor Noble Ingram is the audience engagement editor for Bolts. He focuses on facilitating conversations between readers and the newsroom and has worked for a variety of news ...