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About 1 in 5 high school students in the United States has seen violence first-hand among people who are not related, including homicides involving guns. Thats according to a new

Jury selection has begun in the trial of Robert Bowers, a 50-year-old Pittsburgh-area man who faces 63 counts in a federal indictment.

In a rare moment of bipartisanship warmth Thursday, the top Democrat and Republican in the Senate halted floor action for a few minutes to praise Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat

House Republicans are abandoning a years-long push by their party to pass a federal abortion ban and are exploring other ways to advance their anti-abortion agenda -- a remarkable shift

Along with misoprostol, mifepristone is one of the drugs used for an abortion via medication, as opposed to surgery.

Before being elected to the Senate in 1992, Patty Murray was a teacher and then served as a state senator in Washington.

The death penalty was abolished in Washington state Thursday after Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law eliminating the state-sanctioned punishment.

The governor of Oklahoma is calling on four McCurtain County officials to resign after the release of a secret audio recording that allegedly captured them making racist remarks about lynching

Before Alexis Dowdell headed to her Sweet 16 party, she sat on her big brothers bed to tell him she was nervous for the event she had been planning for

As more communities reel from deadly mass shootings -- including Dadeville, Alabama, where four people were killed and 28 injured at a Sweet 16 birthday party over the weekend --