Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that ...

Audience engagement editor Noble Ingram is the audience engagement editor for Bolts. He focuses on facilitating conversations between readers and the newsroom and has worked for a variety of news ...

As always, this guide is not an exhaustive list of all elections in May, but just our selection of the races to monitor. Voters are also deciding city councilors and county commissioners all around ...

St. Louis city councilGeneral election This city council race to replace Cara Spencer, who became mayor in April, is unfolding against the backdrop of state Republicans’ heavy crackdown against St.

Candidates bring up a criminal case that occurred on their opponent’s watch, and use it to attack them for being too lenient.

In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to ...

In Oklahoma, organizers have to race against the clock to get measures on the ballot. The state has the nation’s shortest window of time for collecting the tens of thousands of signatures needed to ...

But a federal judge this month ordered Rikers into receivership, meaning that a “remediation manager” appointed by the judge will soon take control of the city’s lock-ups. This has abruptly shifted ...

League volunteers were instrumental in the success of the ballot measures that raised the minimum wage in 2020 and restored the right to vote for those convicted of a felony in 2018. Last year, they ...