New York City police officers stopped more than half a million people on the streets last year, more than in any previous 12-month period in the years since the Police Department began reporting the...
A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some written by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a little-known provision of a federal court order the Bush...
The Supreme Court has made it harder to prove discrimination on the basis of age, ruling against an employee in his mid-50s who says he was demoted because of his age.
US President Barack Obama's decision to suspend the repatriation of Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo Bay is another blow to his hopes of closing the camp within the foreseeable future.
Four more prisoners have been moved to secretive prison units known as Communication Management Units, or CMUs, Democracy Now! reports. CMUs are the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Center for...
The U.S. government issued a license that enabled private lawyers to challenge the constitutionality of the CIA's targeting of terror suspect Anwar Alwaki, an American citizen living in Yemen.