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Victory will have consequences for abortion and voting rights in the state as Democrats become serious about down-ballot races

Tennessee Republicans moving toward expulsion of three Democrats who supported students protesting for gun control after Nashville school shooting.

Authoritarianism vs public media, and other fights for the right to know

Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated 55 years ago today while in Memphis standing in solidarity with striking sanitation workers. His life and radical words stand as a beacon of hope, urging us to keep fighting for economic and racial justice.

That so many states have been passing such legislation that forbids considering environment, society, and governance implications of financial investments is anything but a fluke.

Mel King, the longtime political activist and former state representative from the South End who in 1983 became the first Black person to reach a Boston mayoral general election, died Tuesday morning in his South End home. He was 94.

Lexi Rizzo, Starbucks Buffalo shift supervisor for seven years at one of the first stores to unionize, says company claims she was fired for tardiness.

Said Zeedani, who was part of the 1976 strike by Palestinian citizens in which Israel killed six protesters, recalls the build-up to 'a political earthquake.'

After World War II, the Indonesian Communist Party threw itself into democratic politics and outreach to broad segments of society. Western intelligence agencies were worried because they knew that the PKI was not coercing people into giving them power — they were simply growing in popularity.

Even though storm prediction is improving, tornadoes are still hard to predict, with a warning typically of only about 10 to 15 minutes. This is why tornado prediction is hard, and what's being done to improve it.