Retired senior military officers and human rights advocates are reacting with disgust at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s description of the Geneva Conventions as a “problem” for...
Daniel McGowan was returning to his cell in the Sandstone, Minn., federal prison when he learned he was shipping out. At first he didn’t know where, or why, which is standard procedure for the U.S...
It was the defining promise of the early days of the “hope and change” administration: President Obama would signal a new era of U.S. engagement with the world by closing, within a year, the...
Sparing four men from indefinite detention under his successor, now-former President Barack Obama nonetheless failed to fulfill the promise from the first day of his tenure to close Guantanamo Bay’s...
A commission with Gov. Rick Snyder appointees is asking the state Department of Civil Rights to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge against the state’s emergency manager law that Snyder...
...In 2002 the Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization of black firefighters, initiated a bias complaint challenging the fairness of the 1999 and 2002 Firefighter exams. This prompted the U.S...
...For applicants in Yemen, which is experiencing a major cholera outbreak amid a violent conflict , the “hardship” is clear, said Ibraham Qatabi, a Yemeni American activist with the Center for...
Former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada goes on trial in Florida next month in a civil suit over his role in the killing of more than 50 civilians during disturbances in 2003, court...
...The emails were among a larger set turned over by the state’s environmental protection department in response to a public records request filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights. Taken...
...The emails were among a larger set turned over by the state’s environmental protection department in response to a public records request filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights. Taken...
