[ad_1] JACKSON, Miss. — After men near Mississippi’s capital were buried in a pauper’s cemetery without their relatives’ knowledge, the U.S. Justice Department will help the city’s police revamp policies…
[ad_1] MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Civil rights organizations and other groups filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a new Alabama law that criminalizes certain types of assistance with absentee ballot applications. The…
[ad_1] GENEVA — The U.N.’s leading human rights body agreed Thursday to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against…
[ad_1] BANGKOK, Thailand — Myanmar’s military government is escalating violence against civilians as it faces more setbacks on the battlefield from a range of pro-democracy and ethnic armed groups, a…
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — The Associated Press reported Thursday that someone with access to a work email account for Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno created a profile in late 2008…
[ad_1] When Achsah Nesmith got the phone call offering her a job writing presidential speeches for Jimmy Carter, she turned it down. As the mother of two young children, she…
[ad_1] TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey legislative leaders hit the brakes Thursday on a fast-moving bill that would have overhauled the state’s open records law, following an outpouring of opposition…
[ad_1] Florida education officials and civil rights attorneys reach settlement over law which critics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.” [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] HARARE, Zimbabwe — The United States State Department said Friday that Zimbabwean authorities detained officials of the U.S. development agency, USAID, before deporting them, as relations between the historical…
[ad_1] LEXINGTON, Ky. — A former sheriff’s deputy in central Kentucky has been convicted in federal court of violating the civil rights of people he arrested by using unnecessary force…