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The unelected body that shapes voting rules has a new conservative majority who question the state’s 2020 results. They now have new power to influence the results in 2024.

Stalking the aisles, microphone in hand, he turned “The Phil Donahue Show” into a participation event, soliciting questions and comments on topics from human rights to orgies.

Psychologists call it reward sensitivity. And simple steps can help you boost your drive to seek out positive emotions and enjoy life.

There were no immediate reports of injuries from the flooding. The New York City area was also getting heavy rain.

Officials are exhuming bodies to learn more about the victims of one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history.

The 12-foot-tall bronze statue of the civil rights leader was commissioned after Mr. Lewis died in 2020. It stands where a Confederate memorial was erected in 1908.

The César-winning actor was an international favorite in the 1960s and ’70s, often sought after by the era’s great auteurs.

Nearly 14 years ago, Kamala Harris’s opponent in the California attorney general’s race gave an answer at a little-watched debate that was frank — and fateful for the future Democratic presidential nominee.

A far-right plank on immigration that is rooted in a baseless theory has found purchase among Republicans and right-leaning independents in parts of Ohio.

In huge numbers, older people are taking gabapentin for a variety of conditions, including itching, alcohol dependence and sciatica. “It’s crazy,” one expert said.

Artists saw six-figure sales and heard promises of stardom. But with the calamitous downturn in the art market, many collectors bolted — and prices plummeted.

The football player Michael Oher believes his early life was misrepresented by the Oscar-winning movie and the book it was based on.

Residents of the village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say one Palestinian man was killed by rampaging settlers. Israel’s military confirmed the village was attacked.

The former president has falsely claimed that he nearly died in a helicopter ride with Mr. Brown, and that Mr. Brown said “terrible things” about Kamala Harris.

The former president’s vision of using the military to enforce the law domestically would carry profound implications for civil liberties.

A biomedical researcher, he found that normal cells can divide only a certain number of times before they age — which, he said, explained aging on a cellular level.

The campaign is adding Marc Elias, one of the party’s top election lawyers, to help Democrats counter what they expect to be a contentious postelection period.

A chart topper in 1960 for his doo-wop group the Zodiacs, it inspired popular cover versions and was heard in the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing.”