President Donald Trump led an insurgent takeover of the Republican Party. Now, conservative war critics could use the same ...

A federal court struck down a Biden-era ATF "ghost gun" rule, restarting a legal saga that made its way to the Supreme Court in 2025.

"This is the only time any level of American government, municipal state or county has ever gone out to search the hidden remains of victims of racial violence in American history," Ellsworth said.

Soon after Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal charges in the 2024 killing of the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, his lawyers filed a motion arguing that separate state charges should be ...

A month after National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg announced that Sam Alito was retiring (a story NPR later had to retract) ...

The Supreme Court could overturn state bans on semiautomatic rifles that would invalidate laws in a dozen states, including Washington's ban enacted in 2023.

A Lombard native, Dan Petrella has written for newspapers from Chicago to Carbondale. Before joining the Tribune in 2017, he ...

Attorney General Jay Jones’ office asked a judge in Washington County to delay the court proceedings in a case challenging the constitutionality of Virginia’s assault weapons ban until the United ...

After loosening a restrictive test for gun regulations 2 years ago, the Supreme Court moved back to the right this term. A bigger 2nd Amendment case is up next.

The Supreme Court's assault weapons case is poised to be a landmark Second Amendment ruling, which pro-gun activists are optimistic about.

Editor’s note: The news quiz is a product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude and Google Gemini. 1. Wildfire smoke from Canada and ...