The US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan on Tuesday announced that the FBI will join a criminal investigation into the contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan. The FBI will join a multi-agency...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday rejected a Georgia death row inmate's legal challenge. The federal appeals court rejected inmate Brandon Astor Jones' challenge to Georgia law that shields the identity...

Four former Blackwater security contractors on Monday appealed their conviction for a 2007 Baghdad shooting that killed 14 Iraqi civilians. This appeal centers around a witness for the prosecution who changed his testimony after the...

The US Supreme Court refused Monday to delay the implementation of a new redistricting plan in Virginia for the upcoming election to the US House of Representatives. The case, Wittman v. Personhuballah , involves...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) began its review the San Francisco police department on Monday. The review was initiated in the aftermath of the filmed shooting of Mario Woods, an African American male,...

A group of UN experts on people of African descent stated Friday that "ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of African...

US President Barack Obama on Friday announced a new set of actions his administration is taking in an effort to close the gender pay gap. Speaking with reporters, Obama chastised American business for paying women, on average, only 79...

An Indiana legislative committee approved a bill Wednesday that would repeal the controversial religious freedom law passed last year that allowed businesses to deny service based on sexual orientation. The Senate Rules committee voted...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana (ACLU) and the Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission (IPAS) reached a settlement agreement on Wednesday with the Department of Corrections over the treatment of...

Representatives from 29 states on Tuesday asked the US Supreme Court to block the he implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) . The plan seeks to eliminate the amount of carbon...