Plea bargains. Bench trials. Pleading the Fifth. Law students—and anyone who has seen Law and Order—will recognize these as familiar features of the US criminal justice system. But, as Emma Kaufman ...

A warrantless wiretapping law known as Section 702 is set to expire on April 20 unless Congress votes to extend it. Past ...

Brazil now enforces a sweeping new law that aims to make the internet safer for children and teens. On Tuesday, the digital statute takes effect after Congress backs it and President Lula signs it in ...

About 50 children were in federal detention in Dilley, Texas this week, down from about 500 in January. It is unclear how ...

I live in the small city of Rolla, Missouri, where half the child care centers have closed in the past six years. In the past year, my state has lost 1,771 child care slots due to closures. This ...

Despite learning that the young boy was losing weight, eating food from the trash and being forced to hold weights above his head as punishment, and that other children in the home reported being ...