Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Gov.-elect Josh Stein have filed another lawsuit against a GOP-inspired law that strips away ...

FILE - House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger, R-Texas, arrives as House Republicans meet behind closed doors to ...

A triptych of criminal charges paints a searing, sometimes disparate portrait of the man accused of ambushing and killing ...

The Astros welcomed first baseman Christian Walker to the team in one of two moves that almost certainly marks the end of ...

A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors ...

Olivia Ensign is the senior advocate and researcher at the U.S. program of Human Rights Watch, a global nonprofit organization that investigates and reports on abuses worldwide.

Terrance Sullivan is director of racial justice at Amnesty International USA, part of the world’s oldest, largest grassroots human rights organization.

The same systemic injustices that taint federal death sentences – racial bias, prosecutorial misconduct, wrongful convictions ...

The NCAA on Monday appealed the preliminary injunction granted by a U.S. federal judge giving Diego Pavia another year of ...

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington after developing a ...

Attorneys for Adnan Syed, whose legal case was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial,” are seeking to have his prison ...

Two people were rescued when a California pier partially collapsed and fell into the ocean as the state’s central coast was pounded by heavy surf from a major storm expected to bring hurricane-force w ...