A high court ruling upholding a life sentence for a 14-year-old has renewed the national debate over adolescent sentencing, juvenile mental health, and brain development, drawing...
Democratic lawmakers proposed nearly 250 bills in state capitols this year seeking to limit federal immigration efforts as they sought to push back against what they...
After authorities rescued 16 children last month who had been confined to a single room in a home in rural Ohio, attention turned to their mother,...
More than 9,000 children in foster care had to temporarily stay in hotels, office buildings and other potentially unsafe settings when states couldn’t find suitable places...
Twenty-six states accuse the Trump administration in a new lawsuit of illegally threatening to withhold billions in counterterrorism and emergency preparedness funds from states that don’t...
The nation’s death rate may have fallen to a historic low last year as many of the killers of young people such as drug overdoses, gun...
Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple with federal Medicaid...
Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple with federal Medicaid...