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WORCESTER — As a title, “The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War: Fashion, Citizenship, and Nationalism (1954–1975)“ is so long and dry it sounds more like a doctoral dissertation than an art ...

In a blow to Republicans, a Utah district judge rejected a congressional district map drawn up by the state's GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that will create a ...

Where are IHSA cross country state finals? The 2025 IHSA cross country state finals are at Detweiller Park, located at 8327 N Galena Road on Illinois Route 29, north of Peoria. While there is no ...

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GRAND ISLE, Vt. (WCAX) - A statewide panel tasked with drawing new school district maps got a first look at a proposal to consolidate the state’s 119 districts into just 13 ahead of a public hearing ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - The Voting Rights Act, a landmark law barring discrimination in voting, was a product of the U.S. civil rights era, sought by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Martin Luther ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The future of California’s congressional maps — and who gets to draw them — will be in voters’ hands this November. Proposition 50 would temporarily change the state’s ...

Matthew Klein, an analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, breaks down the proposed Texas and California redistricting maps for the 2026 midterm elections and what it means for the balance of ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel's far-right finance minister said on Wednesday that maps were being drawn up for annexing territory in the occupied West Bank, land the Palestinians seek for a state, ...

A new move by a Utah judge ordering the Legislature to redraw its congressional maps is the latest turn in an ongoing saga over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. And this latest ...

A judge threw out Utah’s congressional maps and ordered the Legislature to draw new districts that comply with the 2018 voter-backed Better Boundaries initiative, which sought to ban partisan ...