The redistricting process has always controversial and vulnerable to distortion. Politicians with the power to draw the lines have done so to gain advantage. Is there a fair way to draw these district lines? Read how California does it — and see how your state handles redistricting.
The rulings in the Wisconsin and Maryland cases again postpone a decision on the larger issue of when courts can find that efforts to keep parties in power are unconstitutional.
President Trump doubled down on his insistence that Democrats are to blame for the administration’s forced separation of migrant children from their families at the border.
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Analysis Homeland Security secretary seems to have lost President Trump's confidence — and will say whatever it takes to win it back.
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The president has floated this idea before but offered few details about how an independent sixth branch of the armed forces would operate.
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The president’s argument has long been that there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russian government. That claim increasingly depends on how one defines “collusion.”
Korea Aerospace Industries paid Michael Cohen $150,000 for advice on contracting rules.
Party politics are a no-go zone for senior members of the royal family, and they are expected to steer clear of political issues such as Brexit, which remains deeply divisive in Britain.
Companies in the Cosmos
What does it mean to be an astronaut in the celebrity space age of tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Richard Branson? The Washington Post interviews the astronauts who have been chosen by NASA to restore human spaceflight from U.S. soil to answer that question.
World Cup 2018
Helicopters were deployed days ago to spray pesticide over the area surrounding the arena, including marshlands on the outskirts of the Volga river, which runs through the city.
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