The Chinatown area of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was long a Democratic stronghold. The party’s candidates would often receive more than 70 percent of the vote there. Last year, however, the neighborhood underwent a political transformation. In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott, the Republican incumbent, beat Beto O’Rourke among Asian voters, 52 percent to 46 percent, and …

The Gist Monday marked a critical deadline for state lawmakers — the last opportunity for dozens of bills to pass at least one chamber in the Georgia General Assembly. “Crossover Day,” as it’s known, this year featured a cavalcade of bills receiving rapid-fire discussion, debate and votes, one after the other, from morning to almost …

Delta is a visualization program built by Nik Hanselmann, a creative technologist in The Times’s Research and Development Lab. But what exactly does a visualization program like Delta do? Michael Dewar, who also works in the lab, explains.

SAVANNAH — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a virtual town hall meeting open to all District of Columbia residents with representatives from the National Park Service Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement upon learning that President Biden told Senate Democrats that he will not veto the disapproval resolution that would …

INDIANAPOLIS — For the first time since they left the White House, Donald Trump and Mike Pence appeared at the same event — at Friday’s NRA Leadership Forum — where the former president found more support. Trump received a standing ovation, while Pence, despite being a former Indiana congressman and governor, was met by a …

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling any day now on the constitutionality of SEA 1, the abortion restrictions bill passed in a special session of the Indiana Legislature last August by towering Republican supermajorities. SEA1 replaced the state’s 22-week abortion ban with a near-total ban. There are exceptions if …

It must be said again and again that 48.2% of college graduates in the U.S. are working remotely, according to the February 2023 census survey. That number is up slightly from late 2021, suggesting that remote work is here to stay.

Our first responders are among the bravest and most selfless members of our community here in House District 32, and I consider it my duty as state representative to support them with the resources they need to get the job done. But unfortunately, being the first person to run into a fire, active shooter situation …

The Indiana Department of Correction, a state agency that runs the prison system, has been dropping off Hoosiers into homeless shelters in Marion County at the end of their prison sentences — even if the formerly incarcerated people are not from Marion County.

The Gist State Rep. Greg Steuerwald, R-Avon, has garnered bipartisan, widespread support for a bill that aims to ensure Hoosiers receive mental health treatment in medical settings instead of inside their local county jails. What’s Happening The majority of Indiana’s jails have been overcrowded for years because they have become the de facto mental health …