More than 20 states will increase their minimum wage this year, boosting paychecks for millions of workers as rising costs ...

While Harris County prosecutors already are using a new legislative tool to deny defendants' bail, some experts say it could ...

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Back in 2015, when Trump had begun his presidential campaign, Webster hadn’t taken him seriously, because he “said some crazy ...

A woman who ran a group home called "God's House of Compassion" is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from one of her ...

On Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he is issuing a letter of censure to Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz. The post ...

Newsom slaps his hand on a marked-up hardback of Bill Clinton’s memoir, brought down from the shelf a minute earlier. “Given ...

Criminal justice experts said TDCJ's need for immigrant labor, even in Texas, speaks to the agency's long-standing staffing ...

A researcher in their complaint alleged that the Federal Defenders of New York copied an expert report commissioned by other ...

A man who stabbed and then strangled the life from the mother of his children while out on bail paid by a Portland police ...

When you live with both economic vulnerability and everyday discrimination, it’s easy to feel that you’re permanently kept on ...

Lisa Farris worried that a nasty infection from recent liposuction and a tummy tuck was rapidly getting worse. So she phoned ...