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“Alexa, plot me a course to Planet Jeff.”
Voting is a right of all US citizens, so why are felons excluded after they’ve paid their debts to society? Some Minnesota lawmakers are fighting to get those rights back.
As the Senate struggles over voting rights laws, a West Virginia legislator takes center stage. The Democrats’ agenda lives and dies by Joe Manchin (D).
In 1985 Bryan Stanley killed three men. In an attempt at redemption, he has spent decades fighting against the odds to create the first national park in Wisconsin.
Clean water is a human right. It is also an investment for the capital class, which is buying water rights in the West.
In western Arizona, the push for electric vehicles threatens the Hualapai Tribe’s sacred sites and religious practices.
A look at how the unraveling of Bill Gates’s private life may reveal public malfeasance — some of which may even affect public health.
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One of the original JFK assassination investigators breaks down the 58-year-old case into its basic parts.