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When Congress passed the First Step Act in 2018, Clover Perez was an inmate at the women’s federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Reactions were strong among the inmates when they ...

WILMINGTON, Del.—KaLief Ringgold, 34, was released from prison on March 26 after spending years behind bars on drug ...

Assembly Bill 979 (AB 979), which would require publicly listed corporations in California to appoint individuals from underrepresented ...

MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Two years after Ronald Edwards became a police officer in Milwaukee, his brother was shot and killed ...

IRVINE, Calif.—Orange County’s food pantries and homeless shelters have seen an increase in daily visitors amid COVID-19’s economic ...

On Aug. 31, Mandy Kelly’s 6th grade class in Trabuco Canyon, Calif., sent out their first kindness challenge ...

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Saddleback Church operates what has become Orange County’s largest food resource for people in need, rising from ...

OAK GLEN, Calif.—If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of Hell’s Kitchen, says Frank Opp, owner of ...

MILIPITAS, Calif.—Greg Oropeza climbed out of his white pickup in front of an evacuation resource center in Milipitas, ...

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded its three-year Russia investigation on Aug. 18 with the release of ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.—Jessica Equils is a fifth-grade teacher in Rancho Cucamonga, California, guiding her students through classes from ...

MILWAUKEE—Democrats and Republicans are both courting Wisconsin's black voters, whose failure to turn out for Hillary Clinton in ...

As a raging wildfire approached Cherry Valley, California, neighbors united to help each other evacuate, along with their ...

Rumors of arson have spread as fast as the Apple Fire that has consumed more than 33,000 acres ...

CHICAGO—Paris Brown was 18 when he was paralyzed by a bullet in the back. He was driving around ...

California-based mariachi star Jose Hernandez is establishing mariachi programs in schools across the country. He says it’s helping ...

YUCAIPA, Calif.—As firefighters struggled to contain a raging wildfire in the hills above Yucaipa, California, on Aug. 1, ...

In the Capistrano Beach neighborhood of Dana Point, California, a building decorated on the outside with a funky ...

The crushing effect of the COVID-19 pandemic—including recent rollbacks on reopening in California—is enough to make even the ...

When Brad and Yvette of Dana Point, California, became engaged in November of 2018, they envisioned an elaborate ...

FLUSHING, N.Y.—Zhang Jian’s face lit up as he walked out of Kissena Park. He waved toward the stream ...

New restrictions the New York City government placed on its police, the NYPD, are so ill-conceived that they'll ...

PORTLAND, Ore.—Each night, as the last scatters of sunlight fade away, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of protesters and rioters ...

Michael Pack is a man on a mission. Now head of the 4,000-employee strong U.S. Agency for Global ...

CHICAGO—Many Chicago residents who have lost loved ones to violence say President Donald Trump’s recent decision to send ...

The closure of schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of children to spend months at home, ...

Jiang Lianjiao has been an outlier since birth. As the fourth child in her family, she was not ...