After school cellphone bans passed many statehouses with bipartisan support in recent legislative sessions, state lawmakers are turning to legislation governing how long students should spend...
The tiniest menace of summer doesn’t care if you’re hiking through the woods, walking the dog or pulling weeds in your backyard. It just wants a...
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a July 2 panel decision requiring bond hearings for immigrants held under the Trump administration’s mandatory detention...
A teenager charged with the same crime can face dramatically different consequences depending on where they live. In one state, a young person accused of a...
For some teenagers across the country, the summer is the first opportunity to gain work experience for their nascent resume. In a handful of states, however,...
Mylissa McNeill, a resident of Joplin, Missouri, faced an unexpected health crisis following her miscarriage in August 2022. Just a month after the U.S. Supreme Court's...
Seventeen Republican attorneys general have sued California over a state law that requires plastic packaging producers to move away from single-use plastics, alleging that the law...
Kate Dineen assumed she would always have access to reproductive healthcare because of where she lived. It came as a shock when she was denied an...
More states this year have looked beyond traditional counseling and medication to help first responders cope with post-traumatic stress. Firefighters, police officers and emergency medical workers...
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...