The order could have broad implications for transgender individuals, from how they identify on government documents to their ...

Trump's executive order eliminating transgender rights in prison will hurt or kill trans prisoners, experts warn.

A Touro Law Center professor who also serves as the school's associate dean of diversity and inclusion said the order likely ...

Joe Biden preemptively pardoned his family and others concerned about retribution from Donald Trump. The Constitution says ...

Trump's threats to punish his political opponents are, by and large, legally groundless. He has argued, for example, that the ...

Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...

Enshrining the virtue of mercy in the Constitution had a reasonable rationale. Recent presidents have obliterated it.

A Connecticut man who was convicted in one of the state’s most notorious murder cases was one of the nearly 2,500 people whose federal drug-related prison sentences were commuted by former President ...

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The actress, 52, moved to Malibu in 2014 along with husband Richard and her children, but is currently in London for work and has voiced her devastation at watching her the fires ravage California.

Also referred to as sexual assault or sexual violence, it includes unwanted sexual touching, forced oral sex, and rape, among other sexual acts. No matter which act occurs, it’s not the survivor ...