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Now more than 17 years after the two so-called “D.C. snipers” carried out a murderous rampage in the Washington metro area, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments for a case that could decide if the younger of that pair will get a second chance at sentencing. At its core, the case centers on the rights of juvenile defendants and how how far trial judges can go in sentencing them for capital convictions. “It can be summarized in two words, which is that ‘yout

The mayor of Dayton, Ohio, the site of a deadly mass shooting last month that killed nine and injured 27 others, challenged members of Congress on Wednesday to ban assault-style weapons she said are responsible for the carnage her city witnessed. Mayor Nan Whaley testified before the House Judiciary Committee, describing in detail an excruciating 32 seconds of terror as a man wielding an AR-15–style handgun turned it on crowds of bar patrons in a busy Dayton entertainment dis

D emocrats on Capitol Hill shot back at President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday, less than a week after his Environmental...

Security measures designed to protect American chemical manufacturers from terror threats aren’t being adequately communicated to those industry’s neighbors, according to an environmental justice advocate who testified Wednesday before a House energy and climate change subcommittee. ​ Michele Roberts, national co-coordinator for the Environmental Justice Health Alliance, told lawmakers that a Department of Homeland Security program that identifies high-risk threats of terror