At stake is the future of about 535,000 people who have long-established lives in the U.S. , even though they don't hold citizenship or legal residency status.

Judges hear arguments over the Biden administration's policy shielding them from deportation.

Texas is leading a group of Republican -dominated states challenging the policy.

Whatever the judges decide, the case will almost certainly wind up at the Supreme Court .

On Ohio ballot, a retired justice’s crusade to make politics competitive again.

Reforming how districts are drawn is an attempt to fix that. Should the proposal pass, Ohio could become a test case for how a red state weighs the political voice of majority and minority factions..

Ms. O’Connor cast the swing vote with Democratic justices to find the maps unconstitutional.

Her ruling infuriated Republicans ; some lawmakers called for her impeachment.

Analysts say she is a throwback to the moderate type of Midwest Republican who has been largely expunged from a Trump -infused party.

O'Connor chose a different path as an unpaid campaigner for constitutional reform.

The point of redistricting is not to favor one party or another, but to make elections more competitive.

Opponents argue that a citizens commission, whose members would be appointed by retired judges, wouldn’t be politically accountable.

“All power comes from the citizenry,” says Ms. O’Connor .

Mahrang Baloch , 31 , was prevented from traveling to New York for a TIME100 Next event this week .

She says she was detained at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport and her passport was confiscated.

Local reports suggested that her name was on Pakistan 's no-fly list, or Exit Control List .

Baloch says she has been the target of harassment, arrests, and assassination attempts.

An estimated 5,000 people have gone missing in Pakistan 's Balochistan province.

Baloch's advocacy has been credited with transforming the plight of her community from a peripheral security issue in Pakistan to a mainstream civil rights movement.

She says she has been arrested half a dozen times for her activism and regularly faces harassment.

A common assertion is that American politics has become highly polarized, with most people on the political extremes and few remaining in the center.

But the data show that Republicans have become more conservative and Democrats more liberal.

These changes balance, leaving the overall voter distribution unchanged but the moderate middle without a home in either party.

Vice President Kamala Harris ' presidential campaign and related political committees have raised $1 billion since she became the Democratic candidate in July .

Harris raised $25 million on the day she was named the candidate, and had amassed $500 million in about a month .

The money haul reflects donors' enthusiasm going into the Nov. 5 election, a source says.

An estimated 450,000 people in Georgia with past convictions are eligible to vote.

Advocates say they struggle to reach those who are formerly incarcerated.

Georgia has the eighth highest rate of people who cannot vote due to past convictions.

The Sentencing Project estimates 250,000 Georgians cannot vote because of a felony conviction.

The Sentencing Project estimates that over half of the people who can’t vote due to past convictions in Georgia are Black .

Such restrictions on voting rights date back to Jim Crow , after the 13th amendment outlawed slavery except as a punishment for crime.

Organizers feel the weight of this history today as Black people are incarcerated at disproportionately high rates.

Researchers from the UK 's Center for Global Development analysed 1,255 textbooks from 34 countries around the world.

They found that the textbooks mentioned women half as often as men and were far less likely to describe their careers and achievements.

Women were more likely to be described in terms of their appearance than men.

Men, on the other hand, were most often described as 'rich', 'wise', and 'certain' The country which mentioned women most frequently was Zimbabwe , followed by Kiribati and Kenya .

Political arm of Everytown for Gun Safety plans to spend $9 million to boost Democratic candidates in state legislative contests in five states.

The investment will be directed primarily toward digital and TV ads in state House and Senate races in Arizona , Michigan , Minnesota , New Hampshire and Pennsylvania .

Partisan control of at least one legislative chamber in each of those states is up for grabs in November .

Former Crawford County sheriff's Deputy Levi White sentenced to 63 months , with credit for time served.

He pleaded guilty to a felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law.

White and another former deputy, Zackary King , were charged by federal prosecutors last year for the arrest.

Video of the arrest of Randal Worcester outside a convenience store was shared widely online.

South Dakota removed 273 people from the state's voter rolls as general election voting was underway.

The state Department of Public Safety on Monday announced the removal of 273 “noncitizens’ citizenship status on a government form.

The move initially drew the ire of the American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota .