She never had plans to become an activist.  A registered nurse, she led a relatively normal life, raising her two children in ...

Maryland lawmakers weighed hundreds of bills Monday, debating and passing controversial public safety and energy policies on ...

Several states are considering moves to change how they compensate people incarcerated after wrongful convictions.

The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a pair of bills Monday; one dealing with vacancies in partisan elected offices in ...

The North Carolina General Assembly has moved several notable bills closer to N.C. Gov. Josh Stein’s desk since he entered ...

A consumer protection restitution bill that would give Minnesota fraud victims financial relief passed in the Senate ...

The Constitution offers the president the unique and irrefutable power to issue pardons. In one of his final acts in office, ...

Bills seeking to invest millions of dollars in wildfire mitigation this legislative session are being stripped of funding as ...

The Alaska senator voted with the GOP on spending last week but in other ways showed she's still willing to defy her party ...

The Florida House is for the third time pushing to undo a law that bans people younger than 21 from buying a rifle.

Senate Bill 8 would require local law enforcement to join ICE’s 287(g) program, but the bill has been left pending in the ...

With the traditional "fire season" growing both earlier and later, Colorado lawmakers have introduced a string of bills to ...