A U.S. panel that crafts federal sentencing policy is proposing major operational reforms, including requiring a supermajority vote to approve certain actions and giving the public defender community a seat at the table in policymaking decisions.

As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California...

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Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality.

NEW YORK—Though today he holds a powerful position as head of a leading information technology firm, MergeMedia CEO Gary Lightman told reporters Thursday he, amazingly, worked his way to the very top ...

Sen. Barack Obama lays out his case against war in Iraq, in Chicago on Oct. 2, 2002. Obama touted his original position against the war as one of the key differences between himself and Sen. Hillary C...