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A district court judge ruled state agencies were violating plaintiffs’ constitutionally guaranteed right to a clean healthy environment. It is the first of its kind to successfully use a state constitution to ensure intergenerational climate justice

Since the Standing Rock protests in 2017, 19 states have passed so-called critical infrastructure laws.

Is Fox News finished? ...and more burning questions from media land

Across the country, protesters have rallied outside, as well as inside, state capitol buildings over Trump’s false claims of voter fraud. New session of Pennsylvania Senate got off to a chaotic start, with GOP refusing to seat a Democratic senator.

High-interest loan companies are using Utah’s small claims courts to arrest borrowers and take their bail money. Technically, the warrants are issued for missing court hearings. For many, that’s a distinction without a difference.

The Republican governor signed a bill curbing Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, months after voters approved the program.

When the US entered the nuclear age, it did so recklessly. New research suggests that the hidden cost of developing nuclear weapons were far larger than previous estimates, with radioactive fallout responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973. The nuclear bombs dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in 250,000 deaths. And now, Donald Trump is threatening to use nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula.