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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday confronts the nation's homelessness crisis as the justices consider the legality of local laws that are used against people camping on public streets and parks in a case involving a southwest Oregon city's vagrancy policy. The justices will hear arguments in an appeal by Grants Pass, Oregon of a lower court's ruling that enforcing the city's anti-camping ordinances against homeless people when there is no shelter space available violates the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments. The case re...

While felons in Mississipi are still unable to vote for life, voting rights could soon be restored to 30,000 people, the Washington Post reports.

The chair of an independent review of Ireland's abortion laws will tell the Joint Oireachtas Committee that elements of the legislation should be changed.