The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine was in court Wednesday to argue for the widespread release of low-income Mainers ...

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect on Sunday morning. Hostages held in the strip and Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails will be freed in the first phase of the deal.

Leaders are seething after Trump revoked enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, or Title VII, under the Civil ...

The executive order requires the command to deliver both a contingency and campaign plan to "provide steady-state southern ...

A new UW hospital opened this spring to provide desperately needed mental health beds. But a dispute over legal ...

Bernice King comes to Sexyy Red’s defense amid backlash surrounding the rapper’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day post. The family ...

Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer, called leaving the Justice Department "a ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

Employees in any federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave ...

Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that ...

Twenty-seven members of Gaza’s Civil Defense Service are still held by the Israeli army, the agency said on Monday. “At least 97 civil defense personnel were killed, 319 others injured ...

Troops have been previously deployed in the U.S. by presidents, including George H.W. Bush and John F. Kennedy.