The Murdaughs, a prominent family with a long legal legacy, are in the spotlight after the slayings of Paul Murdaugh and his mother, Margaret, and the death of a family patriarch.

Candidates like Jones could ride a recent wave of people of color with limited political experience running for and getting elected to higher office.

The swift losses of three members of the Murdaugh family have left a community reeling and investigators searching for a motive for why two of them were killed.

Organizations have grown increasingly vocal in their opposition to what they describe as a macabre execution method echoing what the Nazis did during the Holocaust.

The federal judge's decision to overturn the ban, put in place in 1989, has reignited a facet of the gun control debate in California.

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez overturned the state's three-decade-old assault weapons ban. How he shaped his arguments is "incredibly problematic," one legal expert said.

More than 130 civil rights and justice groups signed on to a letter calling on the Biden administration to "end the pain" of the practice in federal facilities.

Vaccination efforts have been so successful for the Blackfeet Nation in Montana that it shared surplus doses with Canada and will help vaccinate tourists visiting Glacier National Park.

Activists and community groups say Kizer's case represents the failures of the criminal justice system to protect young victims of sexual abuse.

The second gentleman's involvement is an encouraging sign that the Biden administration wants to make combating antisemitism a high priority, observers say.

"We've been fighting for a long time, and I hope the battle is over," Lydell Grant, who was wrongly accused in a 2010 murder, said.