Experts said Trump is wrong to say that machine-conducted voting inevitably takes two weeks, and it’s inaccurate that using an entirely paper system would assure results on election night. More than ...

A report from a Swedish organization that advocates for democracy globally found that 34 countries or territories allow mail-in voting. Voting by mail does not look the same in each country. For ...

About 45% of violent crime is not reported to the police, according to 2023 NCVS data. Reasons for not reporting include fear of retribution, belief that police won’t be able to help and not wanting ...

While running for office in 2016, Trump praised Putin and said Putin praised him. When they met in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018, Trump appeared to take Putin at his word when he falsely said he didn’t ...

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

President Donald Trump said he is deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department.

During a July 2024 Florida campaign rally, Trump promised to "take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city so that ...

Property taxes went up last year, partly because of the $325 per pupil increases in funding for schools. That trend is likely to continue in 2025, especially as school districts face the pressures of ...

Washington, D.C.’s homicide rate is influenced in part by the city’s limits, said James Alan Fox, Northeastern University criminology professor. The city limits are "almost completely urban" compared ...

Negative net migration is possible in 2025, but Trump "has no basis to make that claim until the US Census Bureau analyzes the 2025 data next year," Michael Clemens, George Mason University economics ...

The official U.S. government website erased sections of the U.S. Constitution without amending it. On Aug. 6, the Library of Congress’ annotated website of the U.S. Constitution was missing sections ...

The center estimated that the U.S. is home to 21.6 million noncitizens, about half of whom are here illegally. It said that noncitizens — regardless of immigration status — created a net gain of 14 ...