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Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, which the Supreme Court heard on Monday, is a devilishly difficult case. It involves the proper meaning of a vague phrase in the Clean Water Act, the principal law protecting America’s waters from a wide…

The labor market is starting to slow down. Job openings have fallen, and employers are adding fewer jobs to the economy compared to earlier in the year. Although that may seem dim, economists say there is reason to believe that…

Part of The 2022 midterm elections, explained Michigan is giving Democrats their best chance this year of flipping a state legislative chamber — or two. It’s also a state where a Democratic failure to keep at least some government control…

The number of murders rose nationally in 2021, according to new data released by the FBI on Wednesday. Or maybe it didn’t. If the FBI’s estimate is accurate, it would mean there were more murders in the US in 2021…

After a week punctuated with reprimands of the Department of Justice by Republican lawmakers and their subsequent demands for accountability following an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, the search warrant released Friday indicates the search was…

Part of The 2022 midterm elections, explained In a campaign statement before the lone debate in the Pennsylvania Senate race and in his opening remarks, Democratic nominee John Fetterman tried to temper expectations for his performance and confront the “elephant…

Andrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s launch in 2014, and before that, he worked as a research assistant at the…

Ben Jacobs is a political reporter at Vox, based in Washington, DC. Ben has covered three presidential campaigns, as well as Capitol Hill, the White House, and the Supreme Court. His writing has appeared in publications including New York magazine,…

The Texas National Guard has deployed a “contingency border force” of over 400 personnel to El Paso, Texas, as the city continues to deal with a surge of asylum-seekers arriving at the border. The Texas Military Department said the deployment…

Greg Abbott, Texas’s dependably conservative Republican governor, is running for reelection this year. He’s campaigning on the back of a record packed with recent far-right wins that can help him fend off his most serious challengers, all of whom are…