Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...

The move marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to exert more control over faculty at service academies.

Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.

Using removal orders as a tool to fast-track children out of the country is dangerous and unfair, lawyers for unaccompanied minors say.

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

A new March of Dimes report finds that one-third of counties in the U.S. don't have access to ob-gyn providers or labor and delivery units.

The local sheriff ended his county’s Flock partnership, just hours after Governor Ron DeSantis ditched the technology. They’re part of a growing group of GOP leaders turning against Flock.

The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...

A local official says a federal immigration agent has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas. City Councilmember Mike Siegel says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car ...

Aminata Seck, 26, was detained while traveling as part of Kentucky State University's women's basketball team.

The Supreme Court was never meant to have the last word on self-government.

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When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.

Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...

Our September 2026 report Youth Behind the Fence brings to light a pattern of traumatization, criminalization, and widening racial inequality in the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice…

Across the United States, states have shown little progress with respect to racial, ethnic, gender, and professional diversity among state supreme court justices.

The DNA expert at Jeff Prible’s trial accused then-prosecutor Kelly Siegler of using his testimony in an “inflammatory” way.

Allowing the same three companies to control both credit scoring and credit reporting removes one significant check on manipulation or distortion of consumer data, writes the Director of Consumer Repo...

Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.

Despite policy victories over Flock, Americans are finding themselves under similar monitoring by a new company – or unable to remove the original cameras

Austin officers killed an unarmed 17-year-old at a park last month in what the chief swiftly deemed "suicide by police." Some call the concept a type of "junk science."

Brazilian beef was recently rejected from the EU for failing to meet quality standards and 30,000 pounds of Argentinian meat was recalled in Texas and Florida this summer.

The US prison population is aging rapidly, and incarcerated seniors are not getting the care they need.

Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.

Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

People who lost parental rights helped pass a bill to reform California