Proposition 47 was meant to prevent minor drug offenders from being incarcerated and instead funneled into treatment. Thus far the plan has seen mixed results.

Tax increment financing, originally meant to spur development of "blighted" neighborhoods, is now being redistributed upwards.

An art therapy project in an Alaska Native village helps teens talk about suicide in their community.

Looking back at the Equifax breach in 2017 shows how little the Federal Trade Commission or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have done to prevent similar incidents in the future.

After the Easter Sunday attacks that left at least 200 people dead, a religious studies professor looks back at how Christianity came to the island nation.

It is both the technology and the symbolism of a gun that can encourage someone to shoot.

Ninety-seven percent of prisoners with the disease are unable to access proper medical care in correctional facilities across the country.

A quest through California to find which addiction and recovery centers aren't using medication-assisted treatment—our country's best bet for beating the opioid crisis.

The Department of Justice wants to allow appeals judges to uphold deportations without explaining their reasoning. But the last time that was the practice, the case docket doubled.

But for a few flare-ups of protest—all quickly and violently quashed—the movement to rid the country of its powerful ruler is all but over.

Yemeni bodega owners in New York are refusing to sell copies of the Post. Will they encourage the paper to change its editorial policy?

The Department of Homeland Security fumbled a domestic terrorism report in 2009 that warned about right-wing militias targeting the U.S. Army for recruits.

The former gubernatorial candidate has launched a non-profit aimed at fixing the state's ongoing issues with counting its citizens.

Researchers created an algorithm to identify the people most at risk for long-term homelessness in Los Angeles. Some worry the tool itself poses risks.

Many sober homes have made the news recently for egregious violations—but the latest federal effort to clean them up may not do much to help.

Dramatically reducing HIV infections in the next decade will prove very difficult—and may be impossible with cuts to Medicaid or the repeal of the ACA.

The bans mark an unprecedented year for abortion legislation—and a potential political turning point.

State lawmakers are increasingly using tactics that suppress progressive legislation being passed in metropolitan areas.

It all began with an ethics complaint.

The secretary of Homeland Security, who resigned over the weekend, oversaw most of the Trump administration's family separation efforts.

Xavier Becerra joined Julián Castro and Beto O'Rourke in calling to end criminal charges for those who enter the country illegally.

Fourteen states have signed a law pledging their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner, regardless of whether that candidate wins the state.

A California bill replaces cash bail with risk-assessment algorithms, which critics argue will perpetuate the pre-trial detention of minority and low-income defendants.

New research finds that minority youth who are confronted by officers are more likely to subsequently engage in delinquent behavior than those who don't face such encounters.