In Montgomery, Governor Ivey signs a law enabling the death penalty for child sex offenders, while the Senate dismantles nondisclosure agreements on abuse, reshaping legal protections here.

It's business as usual for much of Washington, despite an ongoing partial government shutdown on Feb 2. Yes, some federal agencies including the Pentagon and the Health and Human Services Department – ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following the work of two local child predator-hunting groups, a Rochester man has pleaded guilty to attempting to have sex with ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new breach reporting website and guidance materials to support its duties of enforcing compliance ...

The January 2026 release of additional files related to the Justice Department’s investigation of convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell has brought renewed attention to the ...

Republicans and Democrats debated the bill on the House floor today. Trump makes rare adjustments in Minneapolis after nationwide backlash A Massive New Study of 20,000 Adults Says This Is What ...

Over the next two days, Bovino and others in the Trump administration posted similar statements to social media and repeated ...

I write three syndicated columns a week, and the vast majority of them could easily run with the title “Stupid and Evil US Government Action of the Day.” There’s almost always a specific “news hook” — ...

If tax season wasn't already unpleasant enough, the 2026 tax cycle could soon be bogged down by a looming government shutdown. The Internal Revenue Service officially began accepting tax returns on ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A proposed merger between Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI, reported exclusively by Reuters on Thursday, could give fresh momentum to Musk's plan to launch satellite data ...

The Chicago area isn't dealing with the remnants of a massive snowfall, but rather a much different type of winter weather: extreme cold. While accumulating snow is possible in the coming days, Friday ...

The Senate has just a couple days to pass a funding package by Jan. 30 to avert another potential government shutdown, but the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal agents has drawn ...