A pilot program for police officers to begin wearing body cameras this month cleared a major hurdle when it was approved last week by the federal monitor overseeing changes to the New York Police...
The adage goes, "Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it." Indeed, this is the very predicament in which the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) could...
The Vatican missed a Sept. 1 deadline to submit to the United Nations a report, detailing the steps it has taken to protect children from sexual violence, the Survivors Network of those Abused by...
...In 2012, my organization, that was shut down last year in August by the government, Sexual Minorities Uganda, together with partners, Center for Constitutional Rights, CCR , based in New York, we...
June 4, 2025, Washington, DC — Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today over the detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. The federal lawsuit was filed by the...
Former US Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. was reportedly punished with solitary confinement for giving legal advice to his fellow inmates, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. An anonymous source...
Activists Press Challenge Over 'Animal Enterprise Terrorism' Law Jamie Schuman , Supreme Court Brief September 3, 2014 A First Amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is now before...
More than once, the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan told me: 'This nation will not be civilized until it ends the death penalty.' But how civilized are we now, when, according to extended...
Signs at the war court compound warn that the water isn't potable. The tents and containers where many live sit atop a former dumping ground for jet fuel. Now some of the military and civilian...
