California lawmakers in the State Senate on Tuesday began the process of figuring out how to fund and fully implement ...

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro on Tuesday launched a new effort to pass legislation requiring that guns be locked up in homes with ...

Investigates analyzed murder cases filed in Suffolk County in 2016, 2017, and 2018 and found that, out of 122 murder cases, ...

Illinois lawmakers push to make youth sentencing reforms retroactive, giving those sentenced as teens a chance at parole.

Our political class is aflame, and our lawyer-ocracy is up in arms over President Trump’s executive order limiting the scope of “birthright” (or “soil-based”) citizenship to children of permanent ...

The rising West Coast rapper was stabbed to death backstage at hip-hop festival Once Upon a Time in L.A. Witnessing and ...

Amid high-profile proposals to make it easier for long-serving inmates to seek sentence reductions and make work safer for ...

On his last full working day in office, President Joe Biden announced that he was commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 ...

Meanwhile, the cost of wildfires and wildfire mitigation is another reason electricity rates are high in California. Ratepayers get the bill. And everybody’s rates are higher due to cost-shifting that ...

The committee chairman said he decided to hear the controversial bills amid discussions among Republicans about why certain ...

An Iowa mom brought the bill forward to Republican Rep. Jon Dunwell after her daughter died from unknowingly being given a ...