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In January, days after a Supreme Court decision authorized the U.S. Border Patrol to remove razor wire installed by the Texas National Guard along the U.S.-Mexico border, Sen. J.D. Vance, a Republican ...

Amid celebrity performances, rousing speeches, and thousands of people descending on Chicago for the annual Democratic National Convention this week, Democrats adopted little-noticed but significant ...

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Following a historic confirmation of the first woman to lead the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the Governor's Council is considering another nominee who has played a role in shaping the state's ...

The Republican Party wants you to be afraid. Very, very afraid. Under former President Donald Trump, the party is playing up fears of violent crime, even as crime rates have fallen from their pandemic ...

WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation Tuesday that would overhaul how youth who commit crimes are prosecuted in the District of Columbia as congressional Republicans mobilized behind President ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks David Sarni, a retired NYPD detective and professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about the implications of the Karen Read verdict and what it might say about ...