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The city of Chicago takes steps to bolster voter confidence in election security.

Professor James A. Robinson of the Harris School of Public Policy is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.

As parents get ready to take their kids to college, here's something no one told you on the college tour: If you have a daughter, the chance she will be sexually assaulted by graduation is about 1 in 3. This is a heartbreakingly terrible problem.

A new study in the journal Science found the decline of bats in the United States had come at a deadly cost to humans.

Violence intervention programs like Safe Streets in Baltimore use credible messengers to show up at the scenes of violent crimes in order to, among other things, “conduct direct street-level outreach and conflict mediation." Andre Chung for The Washington

Seven months ago, we publicly raised concerns about Mayor Brandon Johnson's decision to end the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system and strongly urged him to keep the system in place unless the city can find an equally effective or better alternative.