Evacuation orders and warnings were issued to more than 31,000 people in the vicinity of two new wildfires north of Los ...

The comments by U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-7th District, Katherine Clark, D-5th District, and Lori Trahan, D-3rd District, came after the House voted Thursday to approve its version of a “born ...

The law, which applies to all public K-12 school and state-funded university classrooms, took effect Jan. 1. Days after the mandate went into effect, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill — the state ...

The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the ...

The ACLU held a forum at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury on possible changes in immigration, reproductive justice, LGBTQIA+ rights and more.

SEATTLE — Relatives of people who have died inside local jails asked Washington lawmakers this week to bring the lockups under state oversight, making the argument that independent scrutiny could help ...

Lawyers for Civil Rights also sued, alleging Trump's order is unconstitutional based on the language of the 14th Amendment.

A federal judge on Jan. 23 temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to change the interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which grants birthright citizenship.

Six prisoners claim in a lawsuit that they were subjected to unwarranted violence and sexual assault by correctional officers during a series of September raids at Delaware’s largest prison.

The Supreme Court of Nassau County, New York, has upheld a local law prohibiting trans-identified males from competing in women s sports as opponents of the measure promise to continue their ...

Though the court declined to rule on the constitutionality of the law itself, it found that the plaintiffs’ challenge failed to show a substantial application in violation of the First Amendment.