Just a few years after pushing through the last one, Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking for a new redistricting map as GOP control ...

A federal appeals court on Friday declared California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in its most populous counties unconstitutional, ruling that the state’s restrictions violate the Second ...

“Suffs,” Shaina Taub’s musical about how women finally secured the right to vote in America, won Tony Awards for its book and score. It lost the best musical race to “The Outsiders,” but the respect ...

Local developer Tim Hill, Hatcher-Hill Properties co-founder and president, gave $500,000 to help the planned Women's Suffrage Museum acquire another Gay Street building. That building is under ...

A ballot summary describing a proposed amendment to Missouri’s Constitution as “limiting parental choice in education” is sufficient, a Cole County judge ruled ...

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As the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rolled out a revised civics test this week for aspiring Americans, The Washington Post tested readers with some of the tougher new questions. More than ...

In 1797 the “petticoat band” showed up to vote for the New Jersey state legislature, but only on a technicality. Their impact sent lawmakers into a scramble to shut them out. POLLS APARTHoward Pyle’s ...

The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Women’s Suffrage Amendment, prohibited the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to the citizens of our country on the ...

A proposed "Keep Nine" constitutional amendment would permanently set the number of Supreme Court justices at nine. Supporters argue the amendment is necessary to prevent "court-packing" for political ...