With Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket and Senate seats open, Democrats could for the first time send two Black women to the chamber.

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Tension hangs over the city after a week of closings and lockdowns, and the strain of recent months has led some Haitian immigrants to consider moving to bigger cities.

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There is something particularly insidious about his claim that Haitian immigrants are eating household pets.

I’ve seen firsthand that this scenario does not play out the way alarmists think it does.

The state’s process for restoring voting rights is a master class in undermining democracy.

A fight over rules to certify elections is part of a long history of efforts to suppress voting rights in the state.

People who are pinning all their hopes on one attribute are going to be disappointed — again.