Increasing minimum wage may not boost health across the board, researchers report. Instead, wage increases may affect groups of working people differently.

A new handheld spectrometer can quickly determine whether plants are hemp or marijuana. It's a subtle distinction with legal consequences.

Some undocumented immigrants fear that holding a legal status would make more vulnerable to deportation. "You have to live cautiously," a woman named Marina says.

More places are restricting or banning plastic bags at the store. A professor of economics and public policy says taxes better push people to reusable.

An expert explains how housing laws that allow (or even require) landlords to evict tenants who've had run ins with the justice system are racially biased.

"What makes for an endangered species classification isn't always obvious," says John A. Vucetich. He's the coauthor of new research on where Americans would draw the line.

New research on the overlap between domestic violence and mass shootings suggests firearm restrictions could help prevent these tragedies.

Legislation has deemed pornography a public health crisis, but experts say there's no evidence to back that up.

Charges for air ambulance services in 2016 were as much as 9.5 times the rate Medicare allows. A market failure within the industry explains why.

A law professor and former federal prosecutor explains what's going on with the impeachment proceedings in Congress and what's next.