Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, ...

Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that ...

We’re only days removed from the political earthquake in New York City’s mayoral race, but the election calendar matches on: ...

The case, the justices ruled, offered an “extraordinary proposition that the court disenfranchise all 6.9 million Pennsylvanians who voted in the General Election.” The state supreme court has since ...

As always, this guide is not an exhaustive list of all elections in May, but just our selection of the races to monitor. Voters are also deciding city councilors and county commissioners all around ...

Audience engagement editor Noble Ingram is the audience engagement editor for Bolts. He focuses on facilitating conversations between readers and the newsroom and has worked for a variety of news ...

Miller, 59, had been forced to consider the possibility that things could go wrong. Research on killing humans with nitrogen gas — by pumping it through a hose into an industrial respirator mask — was ...

The Texas supreme court closed out 2023 by blocking an abortion during a medical emergency, forcing a woman to flee the state. Just days before Christmas, Wisconsin justices struck down the state’s ...

Most obviously, these courts have become an urgent route for liberal litigants in light of conservatives’ durable majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. State courts get to interpret state constitutions, ...