Crystal Bermudez is your community news reporter covering northern Santa Barbara County, including the Santa Maria, Lompoc and Santa Ynez valleys. Santa Barbara County leaders are considering a plan ...

Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — A federal judge on Monday ruled the Trump ...

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from using a revamped version of an immigration database for checking the accuracy of state voter rolls, dealing a blow to President Donald ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge barred the US administration from using a central database to verify voter rolls, ruling that the government ...

US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan sets aside Trump's revamp of DHS's SAVE system Voting-rights groups argued states' use of the system disenfranchised US citizens Ruling comes as Trump seeks to ...

Judge Blocks Use of Federal Database to Check Citizenship, Saying It Could Wrongly Purge Voters WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool ...

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s providing federal data to states to check and purge their voter rolls violated several laws prohibiting the disclosure. By Zach Montague Reporting ...

Shiva Naipaul’s newly reissued book of reportage, “Journey to Nowhere,” from 1980, is far less interested in the trope of the charismatic cult leader than in the mechanisms of belief.

Modern businesses run on data. Companies regularly capture, store and analyze large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data on consumer behavior, to which they can apply predictive analytics to ...