The New York State Committee on Open Government’s 2024 annual report lays out the various problems with the state’s current transparency laws, and highlights a significant number of legislative ...

President Donald Trump says at a private religious group's Washington prayer breakfast he's forming a commission on religious ...

"In New York, prosecutors often require a person accused of a crime to waive their right to later appeal their case as part ...

The lawsuit accuses city, county, and state authorities of ‘minimally enforcing—and oftentimes affirmatively thwarting’ federal immigration law.

Chris Swanson, the high-profile sheriff of Michigan's Genesee County, is launching a Democratic bid to become the ...

The flurry of directives that Attorney General Pam Bondi signed shifted investigative resources from foreign malfeasance to immigration enforcement.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests to be made after an autopsy report ...

Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands tied behind his back by corrections officers while in custody at Marcy ...

In her newly proposed executive budget, Gov. Kathy Hochul includes language that would gut the state’s criminal discovery laws.

Democratic lawmakers in New York filed a lawsuit alleging that a Republican county executive is trying to create a civilian ...

The corps created by Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, is “an authoritarian power grab in the heart of suburban ...