Catholic bishops are suing the Trump administration over its abrupt halt to funding of refugee resettlement, calling the ...

A man convicted of killing two FBI agents has been released from a federal prison in Florida. Leonard Peltier was convicted ...

Kansas is the 27th state to ban or restrict such care. GOP lawmakers reversed Gov. Laura Kelly's veto less than a month after ...

Gov. Tony Evers criticized “irresponsible decisions in Washington" and “needless chaos,” saying his new two-year spending proposal is designed to prepare for cuts from the federal government.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is threatening to deploy National Guard troops to restore order as a strike among prison guards across the state entered its second day. New York State Correctional Officers ...

CAIRO (AP) — A top Hamas official says the group will free six living Israeli hostages on Saturday and return the bodies of ...

COLEMAN, Fla. >> Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents and incarcerated for nearly five decades while maintaining his innocence, was released from a Florida ...

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon announced the departure of U.S. Attorney Natalie K. Wight following her termination by the White House.

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a death warrant for inmate Edward James, who was sentenced to death in the 1993 murders of a woman and her 8-year-old granddaughter in Seminole County ...

South Dakota’s $825 million prison project in rural Lincoln County faces legislative and legal hurdles as the proposed site and price tag come under fire.

A bill upping the amount the state can borrow to build a second 4,000-bed prison was approved by the Alabama Senate.

More than four years have passed since the murder, but a judge today sentenced Shawnee Krall to life in prison without the ...