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Acting secretary of state Leigh Chapman urged voters to get their ballots in soon, and addressed concerns about access to drop boxes.

Councilmember Katherine Gilmore Richardson proposes a sweeping ordinance to increase the city’s tree cover and cool down neighborhoods.

In the Democratic primary, Fetterman leans on small donors, Lamb on PACs. And Barnette threatens to outstrip big-spending Republicans in polls.

With millions arriving to the city under the infrastructure program approved by Congress, the focus should be on green projects.

In response to a leaked opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Murphy is proposing expanding access to abortions, while protecting providers and patients from investigations.

The groups are calling for additional money to help them in a time of need after seeing their funding cut during the pandemic.

During the first week of May, the average out-of-stock rate for baby formula at retailers across the country was 43%, according to data from the firm Datasembly.

Zelenskyy paid tribute to him by calling him not just a historical figure but “a man who knew how to find wise words and to say them so that all Ukrainians would hear them.”

Casey, one of the last lawmakers on Capitol Hill calling himself a “pro-life Democrat,” says he would support a bill to write the rights into federal law.

In an address from the White House Tuesday, President Biden contrasted his administration's plans to tackle rising costs with what he called Republicans' "ultra-MAGA" plan.

The Affordable Connectivity Program will provide plans of at least 100 Megabits per second of speed for no more than $30. An estimated 48 million Americans will qualify.

FEMA has funds set aside to reimburse burial costs — even retroactively — to families of COVID victims. But clerical challenges and slow outreach have stymied the process.

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Dangerous gusts are picking up again, hampering efforts to battle a wildfire in northeast New Mexico that has burned an area twice as large as the city of Philadelphia.

Leaders from the G7 developed democracies have pledged to phasing out or banning the import of Russian oil, as they met with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.