Supporting victims of violent crime, especially the youngest and most vulnerable of those victims, is among my most solemn responsibilities in the House of Representatives. For young survivors and their families, the criminal justice system can be an intimidating maze of questions, legal challenges, and hardships that, when added to the trauma of the underlying […]

The Grammys on the Hill took aim at AI in the arts during its annual ceremony on Tuesday, in which is also honored Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) for their work protecting musical artists. The event, part of the "biggest week for music in Washington," saw lawmakers sing hymns, applaud, crack jokes...

Delegates within the United Methodist Church voted to repeal their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy Wednesday, showing overwhelming support that contrasts with decades of controversy over the issue. The church voted 692-51 at their General Conference to remove a rule that bans “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as a minister, The...

Sam's Club is now using artificial intelligence and a new camera system to scan customers' receipts at the door, instead of having employees check them.

Nearly 4 in 10 local election officials experienced threats, harassment or abuse while on the job, according to a new poll. In the survey, published Wednesday by the Brennan Center for Justice, 38 percent of local election workers reported "threats, harassment or abuse," while 54 percent said they are concerned about the safety of their...

Many of these programs have the full support of police, who are relieved to not have to act as social workers or counselors, which they aren’t trained to be.

In some states, teachers are barely making enough to be considered middle class.

NEW YORK — In 2011, Stormy Daniels’s manager phoned a lawyer to complain that “some jerk” had called her up threatening to sue over a blog post claiming the porn actress slept with Donald Trump. “I hate to ask it this way,” Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, said Tuesday while...

Several of the justices focused on a parade of hypotheticals that allowed them to avoid the actual case before them.

Violence erupted between police and student protesters Tuesday night and Wednesday morning at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with hundreds arrested in New York. The New York City Police Department went through a second-story window at a Columbia building that had been seized by demonstrators and cleared out the protesters,...