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The president has said U.S. homebuilders are "sitting on 2 million empty lots," and Newsweek has mapped the cities with the ...

A three-judge federal panel in El Paso is hearing arguments on whether to block or let stand Texas' new congressional ...

EL PASO – The architect of Texas’ mid-decade redistricting plan said on Tuesday he did not use racial data to design the map ...

If Prop. 50 is adopted, Clovis will be split among three districts: District 5 represented by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Elk ...

Las Vegas, Miami, and Orlando are among the cities with the most restaurants per capita," according to a new study.

A mid-decade battle over congressional redistricting is playing out in state capitals, in courtrooms, and on the ballot. The ...

Officials in the city of Bastrop have asked Musk's tunneling firm, The Boring Company, to build several tunnels to connect ...

According to Democracy Docket, the UCLA Voting Rights Project reviewed Texas' new congressional lines, finding the map dismantles majority-minority districts that were working to elect candidates ...

A panel of three federal judges are considering whether Texas can use a redrawn congressional map that boosts Republicans and ...

The Missouri legislature approved a redistricting plan targeting Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's district as part of a ...

Federal judges in Texas this week will weigh whether the state’s newly drawn congressional map unlawfully dilutes the voting ...