Why Is 18 Years a Special Age? At age 18, an individual has reached the age of majority: they are no longer a minor. They can enter into legal contracts. They can be tried as an adult if they are ...

Illinois lawmakers are proposing to lower the legal drinking age to 18, provided that 18 to 20-year-olds are accompanied by a ...

New Hampshire lawmakers declined to move forward a bill that would have raised the legal sports betting age to 21.

An Illinois bill proposes lowering the drinking age to 18 but only under parental or guardian supervision. The bill's sponsor ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled against a federal law requiring young adults to be 21 to buy handguns, finding it ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed worries on Wednesday over the availability of online pornography to minors as they weighed the legality of a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to ...

A Louisiana lower court judge had upheld the 1968 statute barring firearm sales to 18-20-year-olds in late 2022.