SUZANNE POTTER California News Service

About 53% of high school students think voting is important, according to a survey out today from the nonprofit Youth Truth. Researchers polled 115,000 American high school students, including ...

A common narrative suggests that deeply polarized American voters always support their party’s candidates, but a new study suggests otherwise in certain circumstances. Researchers from ...

A proposal to allow betting on which political party will control Congress is drawing opposition from pro-democracy groups and from a coalition of progressive senators. The New York trading company ...

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say a GOP probe into whether teachers’ unions had too much influence on pandemic school closures has come up empty. A spokesperson for the Democrats ...

Some 74% of young people in the U.S. believe gun violence is a problem, and 60% want to see stricter gun laws, according to a new report from American University, the Everytown for Gun Safety ...

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is expected to reintroduce two bills as soon as today to protect workers from excessive heat. The first is the Asuncion Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention ...

The House of Representatives is set to vote today on a bill that would repeal President Joe Biden’s plan to wipe out $10,000 to $20,000 in student loan debt for more than 30 million borrowers. ...

Children made up just 22% of the U.S. population in 2020 – and that’s an all-time low, according to a new analysis of census data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The report finds, by ...