Pam Fessler

Lawmakers told HUD Secretary Ben Carson Wednesday they're very unlikely to support the administration's budget plan to cut billions of dollars from housing and development programs.

The Trump administration has proposed changing food stamp rules to require able-bodied adults without children to work 20 hours or more a week or lose benefits.

Misleading claims, particularly about voter fraud, have intensified ongoing debates about voting rights and election security. Some election experts say the rhetoric erodes voter confidence.

Some politicians claim that voter fraud is widespread. That phrase is often used more to advance political goals than anything else. Election officials say it undermines confidence in elections.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine lays out how to cut child poverty in half in 10 years.

Claims of massive illegal voting by noncitizens have routinely been disproved, but some noncitizens end up on the voter rolls, often by accident. Now, states are trying to fix that.

A week and a half after the end of the government shutdown, low-income contractors are still trying to recover, while worrying that they might face another shutdown next week.

For all the talk of "rigged" elections, cyberthreats, voter suppression and fraud, it's often poll workers who have the most impact on whether your voting experience goes well.

President Trump will address abortion rights opponents gathering for their annual rally, called the March for Life, on the National Mall. Trump will be the first president to address the rally via satellite from the White House.

The U.S. faces a severe shortage of affordable housing, and housing advocates fear the recent tax bill and potential budget cuts will make matters worse.

President Trump has dissolved the commission he had set up to investigate claims of voter fraud. Steve Inskeep speaks with Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of the former commissioners.

President Trump dissolved the presidential commission he established last year to investigate claims of voter fraud in the 2016 election.

The 2018 midterm elections will be the first test of efforts to protect the U.S. voting process from outside interference since Russian hackers probed state voting systems in last year's presidential race. Some progress has been made, but state and local election officials say they need more money and information from the federal government to secure the elections.

Some countries, such as France, Austria and Poland, prohibit removing people from their homes during cold weather but that's not the case in the United States.

Voter confidence was shaken by revelations that Russia targeted election systems in at least 21 states last year. A year later, efforts to tighten voting cybersecurity is making some progress.

The Republican tax bill keeps deductions for charitable donations, but nonprofits say other changes could reduce giving as much as $13 billion a year and they plan to fight the proposal.

Virginia is one of two states to hold major elections this November, a year after Russians tried to hack into U.S. voting systems. It will be the first test of how much progress has been made by election officials and federal agencies on securing U.S. elections from attack.

One witness suggested voters undergo the same kind of background check now applied to gun buyers, a function that system was never designed for.

President Trump's controversial commission looking into voter fraud holds its first meeting outside Washington, D.C., on Tuesday in New Hampshire. The federal panel has been unusually secretive and is being sued by voter advocacy groups, who want it to be more transparent about its agenda. Questions have also been raised by a Breitbart News article written by co-chair Kris Kobach alleging widespread voter fraud in New Hampshire last November.

FEMA says it hopes to get people out of shelters and into transitional housing, such as hotels, as quickly as possible. Then they'll try to find rentals or other housing for victims, including manufactured homes, as a last resort.