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A new report by the Brennan Center found that automatic voter registration in states has given a big boost to voter rolls in states where it's been adopted.

Police investigating three recent attacks on historically black churches in Louisiana have arrested Holden Matthews, 21, a white male who is the son of a St. Landry Parish sheriff's deputy.

Three fires broke out recently at petrochemical plants. Residents say it may be the cost of having this kind of industrial economy, but the air quality and danger has some re-thinking the trade off.

The music is back on after T-Mobile's CEO reversed his earlier decision. He had urged store officials to tone down the music after residents of a nearby luxury apartment building complained.

Close to 2.2 million people were incarcerated in the U.S. in 2016. Author Emily Bazelon says prosecutors, rather than judges, are responsible for many of the prison sentences defendants receive.

Bizarre as they may have been, many messianic leaders were stunningly successful, heading movements that flourished for years due, in part, to their keen ability to offer responses to social distress.

We visit Houston to talk to people still recovering from Hurricane Harvey.

Emergency dispatchers play a key role when people go into cardiac arrest, but there are no national requirements that they be trained in telephone CPR.

The Navajo tribe voted late last month not to purchase the Navajo Generating Station, the largest coal-fired power plant in the West. Now renewable energy has become a top priority for the tribe.

Technology has often been proposed as the solution to controversial policing practices. But reporter Matt Stroud says new innovations embraced by law enforcement can present their own problems.