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In 2018, Mark Harris seemed to win a North Carolina congressional seat. But an absentee ballot scandal precipitated a do-over election.

Checking in with the remaining reporters in Val Verde County, Texas, three years after its last daily newspaper folded.

Experts are saying social media algorithms are radicalizing users and increasing extremism in Arizona and around the country ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Michael Chertoff, a member of the National Council on Election Integrity, said better protecting data privacy could make the algorithms less destructive, without infringing on free speech. "I do think we could regulate access to data, uses of data and the application of algorithms to that data without offending the First Amendment," Chertoff contended. " ...

A contentious congressional hearing on Wednesday saw a unanimous push for regulations on social media specifically related to children. U.S. Sen. ...

By Anya Petrone Slepyan for The Daily Yonder.Broadcast version by Roz Brown for New Mexico News Connection for the Public News Service/Daily Yonder Collaboration When Vivian Montano was in jail, her favorite day of the week was Tuesday. That was the day she, along with a small group of other women, would be transported nearly 90 miles to the Olive Tree Creative Arts and Community Center for a day of behavioral health programming. The Olive Tree “kept me going,” Montano said. ...