Economic output in the first quarter, which increased 2.1% nationally, was highest in Western and Southeastern states and dropped in the agricultural Midwest, according to new...
Jennifer Brooks, a history professor at Auburn University, had barely unpacked from a trip out of town earlier this month when the messages started blowing up...
It costs significantly more to incarcerate women than men, adding to the financial burden on state and local correctional systems, according to a new report from...
Undocumented students will be barred from enrolling in Florida’s state universities if a new admissions change continues to gain traction and is approved ahead of the...
Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Grants Pass v. Johnson decision — which allowed governments to enforce public camping bans without violating the Eighth Amendment...
A new lawsuit challenging a logging project in Oregon threatens to unravel the management plans governing hundreds of millions of acres of federal public land. At...
More than 5,000 industrial facilities, water treatment plants, former defense sites, oil refineries and nuclear power plants across the coastal United States – often in or...
Workers in more than 20 cities and states will see the minimum wage increase next month as local governments continue to raise the wage floor amid...
Mylissa McNeill never expected to be a mother. But when she learned she was pregnant in the spring of 2022, at age 41, she and her...
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to weigh in on the issue of whether some immigrants with criminal records can be detained indefinitely. The court accepted a...