America’s police departments are trying not only to rebuild trust, but also to show how equitable policing prevents crime and protects officers, too.
If Mercedes employees in Alabama vote to join the United Auto Workers, it may signal a power shift in America’s most union-resistant region.
A Charlotte shootout left four officers dead as a man used a gun to resist arrest. There is growing strain between police and politicians over gun laws.
A quarter century after the Columbine massacre, Americans continue to square off over the interplay of guns, safety, health, and freedom.
Miami isn’t the only coastal city cautious about hosting raucous spring break college students. Racial tensions and year-round residents seeking quiet are two of the undercurrents at work.
American shrimp boats are being made obsolete by foreign shrimp farms with dubious practices. To survive, boat captains will need to change.
The 1st Congressional District in South Carolina was trending blue. Now it’s deep red. In the change is the story of modern American politics.
In Hilton Head, grandmother Josephine Wright has refused to sell her home. Her cause has struck a chord with those fighting Black land loss.
For LGBTQ+ politicians winning elections in the South, leading is more complicated than the culture wars suggest.
In the wake of the mass shootings in Maine, Second Amendment gun rights are, for some, balanced by another legal principle – the right to live in peace.
Three of Donald Trump’s lawyers pleaded guilty in Georgia. The significance depends on the power of their testimony and whether other defendants cooperate.
Labor unions have been winning big pay gains this year. In the auto industry, nonunion factories in the South and the rise of electric vehicles have complicated the situation.
Several of the Trump court cases may hinge on the fine line between protected advocacy of illegal activity and unprotected criminal conspiracy.
At a time of heightened threats against the judiciary, some question the release of the names of the Georgia grand jurors who indicted Donald Trump.
A brawl in Montgomery, Alabama, this month had clear racial elements. Yet it also said something important about rising incivility in the U.S.
The sweeping racketeering case against Donald Trump and 18 associates underscores the central role of states in running elections – and places Georgia at the center of an alleged national conspiracy.
Overdue accountability or politicized attacks? The Trump indictments divide the electorate, but some see ways to sift the difficult questions at play.
Some old narratives about labor unions and blue-collar decline no longer seem to apply, as workers win pay hikes and make their voices heard.
In the most serious indictment yet against former President Trump, jurors will have to decide whether he believed the election was stolen, or whether he intentionally lied about it.
Trust in the FBI has been plummeting among Republicans during the Trump era, as voters see institutions as being weaponized for political purposes.