The bill’s passage comes a year after APM Reports revealed that dozens of hospitals violated the 49-year-old law.

But more men are going into teaching. There was a 22 percent increase in the number of male teachers between 1988 and 2012. The increases were especially large among Hispanic and Asian men. However, ...

In June 2010, David Balash took the stand in the courthouse in Winona, Mississippi. As a court-appointed forensics expert, Balash had been tasked with reviewing the ballistics evidence in the Curtis ...

The number of convicted people entering the nation's prisons rose steadily through the 1980s and 1990s but has since peaked. At the same time, the population of those being released from prison each ...

After Jacob Wetterling was abducted in 1989, a pastor named Thomas Gillespie of the St. Joseph Parish offered support and comfort to the Wetterling family. He invited them to dinner, opened the church ...

Ever since the 2008 economic recession, the state of Oklahoma has struggled with worsening teacher shortages. As in many states, the problem in Oklahoma is two-fold: A growing number of teachers have ...

The Wetterling abduction story kept getting bigger as the case — and Jacob's sweet smiling face — served as a conduit for public fear and grief. Capitalizing on a growing sense that pedophiles lurked ...

As President Trump prepares to release a list of projects that could be included in his $1 trillion infrastructure plan, groups are aggressively lobbying to make the cut. Over the past five months, ...

In spite of years of pressure from advocates, access to emergency contraceptives remains difficult for women who rely on the health care systems run by or on behalf of their tribal nations. APM ...

For more than 40 years, federal law has required schools to identify and evaluate students with dyslexia and to provide them with an appropriate education. But in many states across the country that's ...

A staggering 16 million soldiers returned home from World War II, and millions of them went to school. Because GI Bill benefits were generous enough to pay for any college in the country, veterans ...

Cheryl Thompson, 62, sits for a portrait near her home in Southern Illinois in March 2024. Thompson said she was sexually assaulted on New Year’s Eve and was not offered a forensic exam at Union ...