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Supreme Court tossed out heart of Voting Rights Act a decade ago, prompting wave of new voting rules

FILE - Betty Shinn talks to a neighbor and her neighbor's friend at a coffee shop in in Mobile, Ala., June 2, 2023. A U.S. Supreme Court decision a decade ago that tossed out the heart of the Voting Rights Act continues to reverberate across the country. Republican-led states continue to pass voting restrictions that, in several cases, would have been subject to federal review had the court left the provision intact. Alabama could add another to the list soon, one that would make it a crime to help a non-family member fill out or return an absentee ballot. "This is voter suppression at its best," said Shinn, who recently testified against the bill during a legislative hearing in Montgomery. "It's no different from asking me how many jellybeans are in that jar or asking me to recite the Constitution from memory." (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

How the American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal

FILE - People walk past an American flag inside the Oculus, part of the World Trade Center transportation hub, at the start of a work day in New York, Sept. 11, 2019. American lore is full of tales of a nation built on the foundations of individualism. In reality, loneliness in America can be deadly. In May 2023, the U.S. surgeon general declared it an epidemic, saying that it takes as deadly a toll as smoking. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Hodding Carter III, State Department spokesman during Iran hostage crisis, dies at 88

FILE - Hodding Carter III, president, CEO and Trustee of the John S. and James L Knight Foundation, answers a question during a news conference in Washington, Monday, Nov. 24, 2003. Carter III, a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who updated Americans on the Iran hostage crisis as U.S. State Department spokesman and won awards for his televised documentaries, has died. His daughter, Catherine Carter Sullivan, confirmed that he died Thursday, May 11, 2023 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

New Hampshire history marker for communist draws GOP anger

A historical marker dedicated to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn stands in Concord, New Hampshire, May 5, 2023. She was born in the city and became a labor activist who later joined the Communist Party and was sent to prison. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is calling for a review of the state's historical marker program after two government officials objected to Flynn's marker. (Kathy McCormack via AP)

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