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For prison inmates, being a parent is hard. You’re far away but you’re still here. And the visits and letters, those small points of contact, can become…

Overcrowding, understaffing and poor treatment for inmates with mental health issues held in Los Angeles jails underscore growing failures in America's mental health and justice systems.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Republican Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, about former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony to Congress.

Here’s what’s happening in the Bay Area, as curated by KALW News:Evening bomb scare shuts down part of Union Square // SF Gate “Part of San Francisco’s…

Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was kidnapped, beaten, doused in gasoline and burned to death in 2014. It escalated tensions during the lead-up to that summer's Gaza war.

U.S.-backed forces in Syria and the White House say that ISIS' territorial caliphate has been eliminated in Syria. Even so, its threats remain.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger's bipartisan credentials were a central issue for voters at a recent town hall. The freshman lawmaker beat a Republican incumbent in an ideologically diverse Virginia district.

The activist, Wanda Cleveland, 61, was there to protest the death of an unarmed black man who was killed by police officers in March.

Last April, Luis Góngora— a homeless man living in the Mission District— was fatally shot by San Francisco police. In the days following the incident, the…

When their 13-year-old brother (Case Walker) becomes a YouTube star, directionless New Yorkers Brooke (Heléne Yorke) and Cary (Drew Tarver) reluctantly find themselves drawn into his entourage.

Once viewed as a refuge by members of the Muslim minority group, Turkey has detained Uighurs and told them to hush criticism about the Chinese government. Some have already been deported.

The California lawmaker, indicted for using campaign funds for personal expenses, is running an ad accusing his Democratic challenger of having terrorist ties and trying to "infiltrate" Congress.