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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday that convicts serving life for crimes committed while juveniles must be resentenced. For some prisoners, that may mean early release.

The president is adopting Justice Department recommendations that also include banning solitary for prisoners who have committed low-level infractions.

The world's leading medical journals have a proposal that could transform medical science: Researchers would have to publicly share their clinical data to get their studies published.

A 2012 New Jersey law was meant to help juries discern factors that make eyewitness testimony strong versus weak. But research suggests a judge's instructions make jurors discount all such testimony.

The Zika virus, which has been blamed for birth defects, is spread by a type of mosquito that is found in every country in the Western Hemisphere, except Canada where the weather is too cold.

A strategic town in the south of Syria long-controlled by opposition fighters has reportedly fallen to regime troops with the assistance of Russian air power.

While investigating possible misconduct by Planned Parenthood, the grand jury decided to instead indict two anti-abortion activists.

The Fed raised interest rates last month for the first time in nearly a decade, and some are concerned that may have been a mistake.

On a trial basis, a British company is releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in Brazil to try to reduce the Aedes aegypti population — the species spreading Zika.

There's no dancing or passing the hat at these new rent parties. There is music — and online fundraising. Recently, a classical violinist played a concert in an Annapolis apartment to help the tenant.