The Obama administration is defending the action of Secret Service agents in then-Vice President Dick Cheney's detail from a lawsuit claiming civil rights violations.
The Senate decides not to clarify whether the government can arrest and indefinitely hold American citizens captured on U.S. soil, leaving a key debate about expanded presidential powers during the war on terror up to the president and the courts.
The percentage of women and people of color running television and radio companies is falling, despite the rise in minority populations, and civil rights groups want the Federal Communications Commission to do something about it.
A 2009 report from the Office of Congressional Ethics said there was probable cause to believe Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois agreed to raise campaign money for Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for a Senate seat.
Police in riot gear and biohazard suits began removing anti-Wall Street activists from an encampment outside the Los Angeles City Hall early Wednesday in a belated enforcement of an eviction order from the mayor.
Police in riot gear closed in on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles early Wednesday, determined to enforce the mayor's order to evict protesters who have camped outside City Hall for the past eight weeks.
Throngs of anti-Wall Street protesters braced for eviction Tuesday night from their encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall, as word spread by broadcast news reports and the Internet that a police raid was imminent.
Police in riot gear closed in before dawn on Monday on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles who defied a midnight deadline to vacate a camp outside City Hall, but stopped short of clearing the encampment.
Police in riot gear closed in before dawn on Monday on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles who defied a midnight deadline to vacate a camp outside City Hall, but stopped short of clearing the encampment.
The parents of a 6-year-old Grant County, Wis., boy who has been accused of first-degree sexual assault have been prevented from discussing the case.
Police in riot gear closed in before dawn Monday on anti-Wall Street activists who defied a midnight deadline to vacate an 8-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall, but the police later pulled back.
Police in riot gear closed in before dawn Monday on anti-Wall Street activists who defied a midnight deadline to vacate an 8-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall, but the police later pulled back.
Hong Kong's former number two official Henry Tang on Saturday confirmed his bid to become the financial hub's next chief executive.
Tom Wicker, the New York Times reporter who covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for the paper before moving on to become the Times' Washington bureau chief and a columnist for 25 years, died at his Rochester, Vermont, home on Friday, the Times reports.
When police ordered anti-Wall Street protesters out of a vacant lot in Oakland this week, the group responded as it does to nearly every challenge it has faced -- with a lively debate.
A Canadian provincial court on Wednesday upheld the country's ban on polygamy, saying the harm that plural marriage causes to women and children outweighed any infringement of religious freedoms.
Two Occupy Wall Street protesters filed the first federal civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD in connection with the OWS movement on Monday, claiming they were falsely arrested and subjected to excessive force last month during a protest at a Manhattan bank.
It has been said that the U.S. lost its innocence on November 22, 1963. Forty eight years have passed since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on that horrific day in Dallas. And in some sense, the nation has never fully recovered.
Occupy UC Davis has annpunced that it plans to pursue legal action as the fallout continues to grow in the wake of UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike's pepper-spraying of nonviolent student protesters seated in the school's quad on Friday.
When California's Proposition 8 has its day in court, any judge who respects the U.S. Constitution will strike it down as a violation of the 14th Amendment, because civil rights cannot be subject to popular vote.
For over two decades, India has maintained hundreds of thousands of armed forces in this border state where a violent insurgency, partially fueled by training and funds from Pakistan, raged for several years.
Following a police raid of Occupy Wall Street in the early hours of Tuesday morning, lawyers have filed in lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court to protect the First Amendment rights of Occupy Boston protesters.
