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Aontu wants an “international city” in another part of Ireland as Dublin is “overheating”, its leader told delegates. Peadar Toibin, the...

Nearly 50 years after robbing and fatally stabbing three men while high on drugs as a teen in New Orleans, Warren Harris Jr. sat at a table at the Louisiana State Penitentiary and apologized for the suffering he caused.

By Ray Sanchez, CNN

It is embarrassing to have to type this sentence, but type it we will: If and when there are no shelter beds available, it is unacceptable for a city or town to make it a crime for individuals to fall asleep outdoors. Though Grants Pass, Oregon, insists it is only prohibiting behavior, not the people themselves, that’s a distinction without a difference when it refers to a basic, involuntary ...

Oral argument before the Supreme Court showed why it is nonsense to claim anti-vagrancy laws violate the Eighth Amendment provision against "cruel and unusual punishment."

How Cottage Grove and cities across Oregon and the national handle homelessness could be determined by the U.S. Supreme Court.

How will the Supreme Court rule on a key homelessness case, City of Grants Pass v Gloria Johnson?

The "criminal" trial of former president Donald J. Trump is underway, and there is much speculation about the merits of the case.

The Supreme Court heard open arguments April 22 for the case City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. The result of the case will decide if local or federal governments

Of the 653,000 people who experience homelessness in the United States, 41% live in the nine westernmost states, according to the most recent federal survey. That includes the five states