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(CNN)Several mass shootings and a sustained rise in gun violence across the United States have spurred law enforcement officials and lawmakers to push for more gun control measures.

President Joe Biden in June signed into law the first major gun safety legislation passed in decades. The measure failed to ban any weapons, but it includes funding for school safety and state crisis

This year, state lawmakers, who spent 2021 passing laws that made it harder to vote, have focused more intently on elec­tion inter­fer­ence, passing nine laws that could lead to tamper­ing with how elec­tions are run and how results are determ­ined.

Elec­tion inter­fer­ence laws do two primary things. They open the door to partisan inter­fer­ence in elec­tions, or they threaten the

Georgia is emerging as the most critical battleground of the 2022 midterm elections.

With Stacey Abrams’s entrance into the governor’s race on Wednesday, Democrats landed one of their top recruits, one they hope will also lift up Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), whose seat is crucial to the party’s efforts to hold their Senate majority.

But Democrats are facing strong headwinds

The world on the brink of 2022 seems an especially unpredictable, and unsettling, place. For the first time, two FT forecasts this year ask if Russia and China will invade neighbours (we say no, but that may be wishful thinking). Less optimistically, our forecasters warn a more infectious coronavirus variant than Omicron could yet emerge, inflation will not return to US targets, tighter