Attorneys for Erik and Lyle Menendez will make their case to a judge that Los Angeles prosecutors should be removed from the resentencing case for the brothers

Justice Sonia Sotomayor says lawyers should stand up and fight in battles faced by the nation’s legal system

An attorney for an Iranian mechanical engineering student at the University of Alabama says he has decided to self-deport despite the government dropping a charge behind his initial arrest

Alabama plans to carry out its latest execution using nitrogen gas next month

Two advocacy groups have filed a federal lawsuit asking the courts to halt new Trump Administration vetting procedures for reuniting children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents

Gun access, parental rights and responses to illegal immigration proved recurring topics in legislation approved by at least one North Carolina General Assembly chamber before a key deadline during the two-year session

Georgia’s governor has signed a law to exempt federal crop insurance and disaster payments following Hurricane Helene damage from Georgia state income taxes

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it will no longer track the cost of weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more

The nation’s infant mortality rate is falling

A federal judge has awarded a total of more than $680,000 to 17 families who say they were sickened by 2021 jet fuel leak into a Navy drinking water system in Hawaii

New York is set to lower the minimum hiring age for prison guards from 21 to 18, a move to boost the ranks of corrections officers during a shortage that was exacerbated after the state fired more than 2,000 guards after a weekslong strike that cripple…

The founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network has been sentenced to 12 years in prison

The father of a Wisconsin teenage girl who killed a teacher and fellow student in a school shooting was charged with felonies Thursday in connection with the case, police said

Senate Democrats have blocked legislation to regulate a form of cryptocurrency after arguing that the bill needed stronger protections

President Donald Trump’s administration has replaced the acting administrator of the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Agency even as its continuing existence remains up in the air

A flurry of rumors and unconfirmed media reports has fueled fears that agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be descending on schools in Washington, D

Democratic voters in Wisconsin have asked the state’s liberal-controlled Supreme Court to throw out the battleground state’s current congressional district boundaries after a similar request was rejected last year

Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature have voted to kill most of the top spending priorities of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers

Florida’s former lieutenant governor has been named the sole finalist to become the next president of Florida International University

The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic understaffing has led to long overtime shifts and the use of prison nurses, teachers, cooks and other workers to guard inmates

Yellowstone National Park has recorded the year’s first violent encounter between a visitor and bison, just weeks into the busy summer season

A former model has testified that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old, calling it the most “horrifying thing I ever experienced” to that point

A Texas man associated with a neo-Nazi group has been convicted of posting threats to lynch and kill Nashville District Attorney General Glenn Funk

One of the pilots of a small plane that crashed last month in South Florida reported only being able to make left turns with the rudder before the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff

Two high school students have turned themselves in to police in connection with a fatal stabbing in front of a Southern California high school