Because partisanship and voting preference are highly correlated – and most adults stick with their preferred party over time – voter turnout is often a key factor in understanding why there are ...

The FBI released its annual Uniform Crime Report for 2020 on Monday, showing that the number of homicides increased nearly 30% from 2019, the largest single-year increase the agency has recorded since ...

NEW YORK, March 12, 2020 -- A monitor shows the trading infomation at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, March 12, 2020. Intensifying coronavirus fears battered Wall Street on ...

In a year of subtraction, it’s hard to begrudge anyone a bit of verbal addition, even if doubling the consonant when the stress falls outside the suffixed syllable hasn’t been standard in American ...

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled the U.S. Department of Justice does not have to return troves of 2020 election records it ...

In the ongoing experiment that is democracy, every election creates ripple effects for the ones to follow. But occasionally there is an election cycle so disruptive, it changes practically everything.

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Shooting incident in Corona, Queens on November 1, 2020. This year the country has experienced significantly higher levels of gun violence. Across the U.S., this year has taken a heavy toll. The ...

Lives lost, families torn apart, economies ruined – these tragedies are just some of the devastation caused by the deadly novel coronavirus as it swept the globe in 2020. The pandemic brought the ...

FiveThirtyEight’s polling averages are calculated retroactively for years prior to 2018. Sources: The Cook Political Report, Polls, U.S. House of Representatives ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Dec 28, 2020, 07:30am EST Dec 28, 2020, 03:16pm EST This article ...

Steph Smith drops off her ballot for the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 3 in Rollinsville, Colorado. (Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images) Note (July 2023): A new report about the 2022 validated ...