A celebrated Seattle criminal justice diversion initiative once hailed as a national model is now under fire after a new analysis alleges that its touted success in reducing crime and transforming lives was grossly overstated, and that participants were far more likely to die than to find work.

Russia has freed an American Marine Corps veteran whose family and advocates say endured more than four years of wrongful imprisonment, brutal mistreatment, and a rapid medical decline that left him on the brink of death.

The Los Angeles City Council, long derided as a symbol of big-city dysfunction, is once again engulfed in scandal as veteran Ninth District Councilman Curren Price is ordered to stand trial on a sweeping array of corruption charges.

The Los Angeles City Council, long derided as a symbol of big-city dysfunction, is once again engulfed in scandal as veteran Ninth District Councilman Curren Price is ordered to stand trial on a sweeping array of corruption charges.

Mayor Zohran Mamdanis administration is facing fresh scrutiny after City Hall claimed the NYPD had strongly recommended a taxpayer-funded police security detail for his wife, Rama Duwaji, on an upcoming private trip to Syria and Lebanononly for the department to publicly contradict that assertion.

Two hundred Jewish leaders, rabbis, academics, and community activists are pressing the Michigan Democratic Party to guarantee the safety of Jewish delegates at its upcoming state convention after Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel declared she does not feel safe attending and accused her own party of failing to confront antisemitism.

National Democrats, eager to reclaim control of the U.

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) used a late-night comedy platform this week to brand Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) dead, accuse Congress of being packed with murderers and rapists, label President Donald Trump a scammer, and urge viewers to vote for a Democrat in the midterm elections if they want to see some arrests.

Los Angeles deepening homelessness crisis has now erupted into an open political war, as mayoral challenger and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman is being stripped of her role as chair of the citys Housing and Homelessness Committee and is publicly blaming incumbent Mayor Karen Bass for the move.

The Trump administration has opened a new legal front against blue-state policies that prioritize illegal immigrants over American citizens in access to higher education benefits.