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For the first time in more than 31 years, Richard DeLisi will be able to spend Christmas with family members. DeLisi, described as the longest-serving inmate for nonviolent marijuana crimes in the nation, walked out of South […]

On Friday the U.S. House passed a historic bill that would end the federal prohibition of marijuana and expunge many cannabis-related convictions. It’s the first time the full House has considered —let alone passed — such a […]

Student loan borrowers won’t have to make payments until the end of January, the U.S. Education Department said Friday, extending a pandemic-era reprieve through the first days of the Joe Biden presidency. The extension also continued […]

A U.S. judge sentenced a former high-ranking Honolulu prosecutor to 13 years in prison Monday and her retired police chief husband to seven years, saying she stole money from her own grandmother and then used […]

President-elect Joe Biden downplayed the prospect of pursuing investigations of President Donald Trump after he leaves office. “I will not do what this president does and use the Justice Department as my vehicle to insist that something […]

U.S. President Donald Trump could issue a flurry of pardons during his final days in power. Trump has granted clemency to supporters before, most notably earlier this year when he commuted the criminal sentence of […]

President-elect Joe Biden delivered a celebratory message but also a message of healing for the nation in his first remarks Saturday following a bitter and divisive battle for the presidency. “America has always been shaped […]

Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco,” which had its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday. The papal thumbs up […]

The death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could have a major impact on the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, which arrives at the Supreme Court one week after Election Day. The latest effort by Texas […]

President Donald Trump said Thursday he would not take part in the next presidential debate with former Vice President Joe Biden after it was moved to a virtual format due to COVID-19 safety concerns. “I’m not going to […]

Less than a week after the far-right group the Proud Boys were mentioned at the presidential debate, the group’s name is being taken over on Twitter by gay men. During the debate last Tuesday, President Donald Trump did not […]

President Donald Trump announced early Friday that he and first Lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19, a startling piece of news felt across the country. Reaction to that news was swift and included an outpouring of support. But […]

The first 2020 presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden brought a lot of shouting, tense exchanges and insults. Amid that, their answers to moderator Chris Wallace’s questions included some […]

Members of Breonna Taylor’s family and their attorneys on Friday called on Kentucky’s attorney general to release the transcripts of the grand jury proceedings that led to the decision not to indict any officer in her fatal shooting. […]

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court for the final time Wednesday under circumstances both she and her legions of liberal allies and admirers hoped would never happen. Even as President Donald Trump readied a potential replacement for […]

President Donald Trump said Monday he will announce his Supreme Court pick at the end of this week because he wants to wait until after memorial services for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I think it […]

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a legal pioneer for gender equality who became the second woman ever to serve on the nation’s highest court and ultimately a pop culture icon, died Friday, September 18, 2020. […]

Bail was set Tuesday at $1 million for several protesters arrested during demonstrations against a fatal police shooting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a move decried by many including the state’s lieutenant governor, who called it “blatantly unconstitutional.” Lancaster police […]

The Senate failed to advance a slimmed-down coronavirus relief bill Thursday that senators on both sides had acknowledged was unlikely to muster the votes to pass the chamber. The bill was defeated in a 52-47 vote, and one […]

In unclouded, impassioned words, Breonna Taylor’s mother has made it clear what she expects Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to do about the three Louisville officers involved her in daughter’s death. Charge them all. Tamika Palmer said […]

United Airlines is being accused in a new lawsuit of staffing athletic teams’ charter flights with flight attendants who are “young, white, female, and predominately blond/blue-eyed.” According to the suit obtained by ETI, which was filed Friday […]

WASHINGTON – Suckers and losers, warmongers and pu—–. President Donald Trump has reportedly used those labels to describe American war heroes and Pentagon brass. It’s enough to rankle even key Trump allies, including the top […]

Partying students would be dismissed without tuition refunds. Northeastern University had made that clear Friday, kicking out 11 first-year students who broke COVID-19 rules to gather in a Boston hotel room. Yet by that night, a few dozen […]

At a school board meeting in Phoenix this month, parent after parent got up to speak, letting the tensions of a year of uncertainty spill out inside a musty auditorium at the Queen Creek Unified […]

Two-thirds of U.S. voters say they won’t try to get a coronavirus vaccine as soon as it becomes available and one in four say they don’t want to get it ever, according to a new […]

According to a study conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, only 5% of practicing physicians are Black. With growing racial disparities in the medical field, it is important to provide space to create more […]

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden met for 90 minutes Thursday with relatives of Jacob Blake, whose shooting by police sparked violent protests before meeting with community members in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Biden and his wife Jill had […]