The Liberty Justice Center, a nonprofit public-interest litigation center, has filed a lawsuit against Mayor Brandon Johnson, ...

Imprisoned former Ald. Edward Burke has become the latest Chicago Democrat to seek clemency from someone who, at first blush, ...

The nearly 50% increase in complaints is seen by advocates and lawmakers as a sign the bureau is struggling to protect women in its male-dominated workplace.

Pupils from Shire Oak Academy will be performing the classic show from February 11. It was last year when the school put ...

Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence had a particularly controversial trip to the Middle East that members of ...

For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...

Two Fort Myers teens are among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against New Orleans officials, claiming the deadly New Year's attack was "predictable and entirely preventable." ...

A Venezuelan migrant swept up in local immigration raids who was ordered released last night by a federal judge is now back in federal custody at an out-of-state immigration detention center.

James Stroud Sr., 80, was sitting in a vehicle Wednesday morning when someone in another vehicle pulled up and shot him in ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Years of organizing, educating and empowering people to defend themselves from racist ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law, giving federal authorities broader power to deport migrants in the U.S. illegally who have been accused of crimes. He also ...

Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually ...