This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Anchorage Daily News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Reporting Highlights Serious Charges: Although the dismissed cases are misdemeanors, they include allegations of serious crimes such as domestic violence. Insufficient Staffing: The […]
A person stops to watch a screen in Washington, D.C., displaying the presidential debate between Vice President Harris and former President Donald Trump in September. Allison Bailey/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Allison Bailey/AFP via Getty Images The future of voting rights in the U.S. is on this fall’s ballot with the two […]
Cherita Evans aka Storm the Barber, with Christian Pounds in her chair at Head Changerz Barber Lounge in Rocky Mount, N.C. on May 23, 2024. Andrea Ellen Reed for NPR hide caption toggle caption Andrea Ellen Reed for NPR ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — From behind her barber chair and in her community, Cherita Evans — […]
Ad Policy US Vice President Kamala Harris helps prepare hygiene related care packages at a health clinic where the N.C. Counts Coalition non-profit is preparing then delivering them to victims of Hurrricane Helene in Charlotte, North Carolina, on October 5, 2024. (Logan Cyrus / AFP) Few questions have bedeviled Democrats as much as the question […]
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves as she boards Air Force Two from Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday. REBECCA NOBLE/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption REBECCA NOBLE/AFP via Getty Images Vice President Harris on Saturday released a medical report, a document that her campaign will […]
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Reporting Highlights Not a Choice for Everyone: In Arizona, which now offers school vouchers to all students, lower-income families are using the program less […]
Voters fill out their ballots on the second day of early voting in the 2024 presidential election at the Board of Elections Loop Super Site in Chicago, Illinois, on Oct. 4, 2024. Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images This presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump and other […]
RICHMOND, Va. — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Virginia election officials Friday that accuses the state of striking names from voter rolls in violation of federal election law. The lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria says that an executive order issued in August by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin […]
Vice President Kamala Harris blitzed the media this past week with appearances on CBS’s 60 Minutes, ABC’s The View, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show, the podcast Call Her Daddy, and a town hall with Univision. Go back a week or so and we saw her sit down for a […]
