New Orleans City Councilmember Helena Moreno greets supporters as she arrives to submit her qualifying paperwork to run for mayor at the Orleans Parish Clerk of CourtÍs Office on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (Brett Duke/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)
Election

Democrat Helena Moreno wins New Orleans mayoral race, becoming the city’s first Hispanic and second female mayor

An early morning pedestrian is silhouetted against sunrise as he walks through the American flags on the National Mall with the U..S Capitol Building in the background in Washington Nov. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
Politics

Americans are widely pessimistic about democracy in the United States, an AP-NORC poll finds

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer campaigns with Dan O'Neil, a Democratic candidate for the Michigan House in Traverse City, Mich., Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Whitmer visited the area the day after police announced a foiled plot to kidnap the governor. (AP Photo/John Flesher)
Politics

Anti-government groups shift focus from Washington to states

Voters fill out their ballots for the midterm election at a polling place in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
Election

As election looms, Russian trolls are targeting Americans again, Facebook says

Scientists think Covid-19 – which first emerged in Wuhan and has killed some 340,000 people worldwide – originated in bats and could have been transmitted to people via another mammal. (Image from Pixabay: For illustration purposes only)
World

Wuhan Institute of Virology has three live strains of bat coronavirus

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