Isaac and Joyce were prowling the open Atlantic, and another Gulf threat may emerge, as a long-feared hurricane season kicked ...

The United States experienced dramatic surges in crime by the early 1990s. The violent crime rate was up 470% from 1961, and ...

The 1994 Crime Bill was misguided, rooted in fear and inflicted irreparable harm on communities nationwide. By prioritizing punitive measures over prevention, this legislation fueled mass ...

Floodwaters pushed by the remnants of Hurricane Helene left North Carolina’s largest mountain city largely cut off Saturday by damaged roads and a lack of power ...

Now a post-tropical cyclone, the storm was expected to hover over the Tennessee Valley on Saturday and Sunday, the National ...

Among those killed were three firefighters, a woman and her 1-month-old twins, and an 89-year-old woman whose house was ...