North Carolina Republican leaders plan to put forward a criminal justice reform package to roll back what they call “soft-on-crime” policies, which they argue led to last month’s murder of a young Ukrainian woman in Charlotte by a mentally disturbed man. The unprovoked stabbing of Iryna Zarutska led North Carolina Senate President Phil Berger to spearhead the effort, announced Monday. “Iryna should still be alive. She should be...

The number-two Democrat in the Senate joined with a high-profile member of the Republican caucus, among others, to launch a bill protecting more than a quarter of a million people who arrived in the U.S. as children of visa-holding foreign nationals. Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., who co-authored the original, ultimately unsuccessful DREAM Act with the late Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, announced Monday that he and several...