The U.S. Justice Department has lifted a decades-old school desegregation order in Louisiana, calling its continued existence ...

A pair of Alameda County district attorneys who were in charge of welfare fraud prosecutions said their office practiced a ...

The FBI has pushed its use of social media like into new territory to help protect Americans from those who break the law. But there are big risks of damaging ongoing investigations.

The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making ...

President Donald Trump announced late Thursday night that he would nominate Whitney Hermandorfer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. It is his first federal judicial nomination ...

The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. There’s a yellow brick wall covered with hundreds of names tucked inside the ...

Activating Change laid off a dozen employees after the Department of Justice terminated several grants supporting its work.

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice cuts hundreds of federal grants for violence prevention, hurting victims and ...

The presidential candidate backed by Poland's main nationalist opposition party Law and Justice (PiS) Karol Nawrocki met ...

His pick to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital could be an exception. Ed Martin Jr., a conservative ...

The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states this week, claiming their climate actions conflict with ...