As tech products play an increasingly integral role in all of our lives, they’re generating a trove of personal data that ...

Abigail Spanberger blocked a bill to bar prosecutors from pressuring Virginians to waive protections against unreasonable ...

Chris Taylor’s win on Tuesday expands liberals’ majority on Wisconsin’s high court and locks it in through the next ...

Almost as soon as Kansas lawmakers passed a new law targeting transgender people in late February, state officials started ...

Each of Oregon's 15 DA elections is uncontested this year, shutting the door for public debate around prosecutors’ policies ...

Pascal is a staff writer for Bolts. He previously worked for Block Club Chicago covering policing and courts, and the city’s west side neighborhoods.

The court’s ruling could create a pathway out of prison for more than 1,000 people who were automatically sentenced to life ...

The water system that provides for the entire Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota has been contaminated with dangerous levels of manganese that have made the water undrinkable since May. For Lonna ...

Supporters of Eileen Higgins, a candidate for Miami mayor, outside Miami City Hall in November 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have ...

Morris mostly lived in solitary confinement from the time he went to prison in 1978, the year “Grease” was released, until he got out in 2017—alone 23 hours a day inside a cell the size of a parking ...

For more than 25 years, Mike Rose felt alone. After his son Jeremy was arrested at age 17 in 1994, sentenced to life in prison, Mike and his wife had no community with which to share the pain of ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...