Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

The North Carolina Board of Elections asked the state Supreme Court to use its power to bypass the state Court of Appeals and ...

President Donald Trump’s freeze on federal funding shows little sign of thawing for climate, energy and environmental justice ...

A Feb. 7 ruling in Wake County Superior Court is the latest setback for Jefferson Griffin, a Republican seeking a seat on the ...

The proliferation of "y'all" points to a global cultural shift toward more inclusive language and merging traditions.

EPA’s chief is also trying to claw back $20 billion, implying wrongdoing. Attorneys call it an evidence-free tactic to get ...

Democrats will likely 'waste millions' trying to litigate Trump's executive orders and lose, University of California, ...

A North Carolina judge rules that race played an impermissible role in jury selection for a Black man, challenging his death sentence.

North Carolina’s attorney general warned in a new court document that a federal funding freeze enacted by the Trump ...

Three Republican judges heard oral arguments Wednesday after a lower court blocked Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to ...

Cape Fear leaders spanning local government to federal have entered the ring on opposite sides over the U.S. Department of Education as the Trump Administration’s threats ...

With a heartbeat abortion ban solidly in place in South Carolina, lawyers for the state and Planned Parenthood return to the state’s highest court Wednesday to argue how restrictive the ban should be.