Abortion legislation moving through the Texas Legislature gives the attorney general power to enforce a pre-Roe law that ...

The new Republican law threatens volunteers with more investigations and criminal punishment, even as Ron DeSantis faces ...

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to ...

California often places minors in lengthy probation terms that many describe as humiliating. Governor Newsom vetoed an ...

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is running for a third term on May 20. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Plenty of what’s on the ballot this May ties into national politics: JD Vance’s half-brother; ...

In the early-morning twilight on a cool Friday in April, a half dozen people gathered in a small parking lot in the San Diego neighborhood of City Heights. It was quiet, before the working-class ...

Nearly 600 Michiganders who expected to die in prison will now get a shot at a different outcome. Michigan’s supreme court ruled last week that it is unconstitutional to impose an automatic sentence ...

Some of Joseph Jones’ earliest memories are of visiting his father in prison. Then abandonment, when his parents left him in North Carolina and moved to New Jersey after Jones’ father was released.