June 19 2022, 08:00
With political power on the line, state redistricting commissions have been held up by voter advocates as a way to get congressional districts that are more reflective of the communities that live in them. But as states redrew the political maps that will shape elections for the next decade, those that set up commissions didn't necessarily produce fairer redistricting plans.
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June 19 2022, 08:00
Today, Colombians will return to the polls to vote in the second round of the country's presidential elections. Six years after the peace deal between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) brought five decades of conflict to an end, voters will choose between two different futures for Colombia.
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June 19 2022, 08:00
Dom Phillips and Bruno Araujo Pereira, veterans of the Amazon, would have known the risks they faced when they set off for Atalaia do Norte in the Brazilian rainforest's remote Javari Valley -- a trip that ended in tragedy, after Brazilian authorities said Friday they had identified the remains of Phillips.
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June 19 2022, 08:00
Lake Powell, the second-largest human-made reservoir in the US, has lost nearly 7% of its potential storage capacity since 1963, when Glen Canyon Dam was built, a new report shows.
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June 19 2022, 08:00
The floodwaters that overran Red Lodge, Montana, left streets full of debris and many homes damaged.
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June 18 2022, 08:00
Japan's government is not liable for damages demanded by people whose lives were devastated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the country's top court said on Friday, the first such ruling in a series of similar cases.
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June 18 2022, 08:00
At least one person has died after a fire broke out at a petrochemical complex in Shanghai on Saturday, Chinese state media reported.
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June 18 2022, 08:00
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government have spent much of this week fighting with the EU and rowing with a European human rights court, all while playing down accusations that they are breaking international law and pandering to his party's base.
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June 18 2022, 08:00
China on Friday launched its third and most advanced aircraft carrier from Shanghai's Jiangnan Shipyard, with a new launching technology that experts say is fast catching up with the United States.
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