As the top prosecutor in Hennepin County, Amy Klobuchar wanted to make an example out of a former judge who stole more than $300,000 from a mentally disabled woman’s estate ...

Connecticut has launched the Yellow Envelope Initiative, a voluntary program designed to help people with disabilities feel safe and heard when interacting with first responders.

Blackwood was named CEO of InCommunity in 2024. After more than 20 years as a corporate lawyer, the mother of three said the ...

Aliya Rahman says DHS officers violently arrested her and ignored her pleas for medical attention despite repeatedly saying ...

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will slash more than a trillion dollars in federal spending from Medicaid and the Children’s ...

Actor turned rare disease advocate Luke Rosen tells how his daughter, Susannah, lives with a KIF1A-associated neurological ...

Jazmyne Owens interviews policy expert Taryn Williams on the impact of federal cuts to disability policy and civil rights in ...

The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right.

Independence focuses on one individual achieving a goal or task fully on their own. Interdependence is a dynamic, mutual process of reliance and support between two or more individuals to achieve a ...

PHOENIX — A woman who once promised donors she would care for disabled and special-needs dogs was sentenced to prison Thursday for instead abusing and neglecting more than 50 animals inside her ...

Police in Gaston County, North Carolina, allegedly arrested the wrong person while serving a warrant. The man who was arrested has a severe intellectual disability and could not verbally communicate ...

In the monsoon-soaked village of Nobogram, Jhalokathi district, the narrow mud paths connecting households turn into slippery streams. For women like Rahima Begum (42), who cannot walk without support ...