Firefighters used to spend a lot more time fighting fires. In 1980, nearly 30 percent of calls to fire departments pertained to fires. By 2004, only 7 percent did and the absolute number of fires ...

Concerns over the counting of ballots in key swing states as well as fraud claims have begun to snowball in the final hours before polls close on election night. As attention pivots from pushing ...

Detroit's problems counting its Aug. 4 primary ballots are not an isolated incident, but reflect a pattern of troubles over at least 15 years that have included judicial intervention, recounts of ...