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  • Free speech and national security collide as TikTok's case arrives at Supreme Court

    Free speech and national security collide as TikTok's case arrives at Supreme Court

    Jan 09, 2025 06:49 PM EST

    ... Shou Zi Chew at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, in December. He has 14.7 million followers on TikTok. The justices have set aside two hours for arguments, and the session likely will extend well beyond that. Three highly experienced Supreme Court lawyers will be ...

  • Death toll from Kentucky floods climbs to 26 amid threat of more rain

    Death toll from Kentucky floods climbs to 26 amid threat of more rain

    Jul 31, 2022 03:43 PM EST

    ... a federal disaster to direct relief money to more than a dozen Kentucky counties. Last week's flooding extended to West Virginia, where Gov. Jim Justice declared a state of emergency for six southern counties, and to Virginia, where Gov. Glenn Youngkin also made an emergency declaration that enabled officials ...

  • Three police misconduct cases -- all involving body cameras -- had new developments this week. Here's what happened

    Three police misconduct cases -- all involving body cameras -- had new developments this week. Here's what happened

    Aug 11, 2017 09:44 PM EST

    ... are the latest chapter in the troubled police department's attempts to weed out misconduct and regain public trust. In March, seven officers were arrested for abusing their power. In April, the Justice Department placed the city under a consent decree aimed at reforming the city's policing practices -- a ...

  • Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of the first Democratic presidential debate

    Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of the first Democratic presidential debate

    Oct 14, 2015 12:50 AM EST

    ... or "black lives matter." He responded, "Black lives matter." Sanders says the nation must combat "institutional racism from top to bottom." He's also calling for major reforms to the nation's criminal justice system. He says the U.S. has more people in jail than China — and a disproportionate ...

  • Supreme Court delivers major blow to transgender rights, upholding Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors

    Supreme Court delivers major blow to transgender rights, upholding Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors

    Jun 18, 2025 02:27 PM EST

    ... clause of the 14th Amendment, which requires the government to treat similarly situated people the same. Tennessee’s law bans puberty blockers and hormone treatments for transgender minors, but it allows the same drugs to be used for other purposes. Soon after Trump took office, the Justice Department told the ...

  • Syria's rebel leaders face critical decisions as they chart new path for the country

    Syria's rebel leaders face critical decisions as they chart new path for the country

    Dec 16, 2024 11:40 PM EST

    ... traveling. And one of the reasons, of course, is that they're trying to apprehend people from the Assad regime's time who are responsible for crimes against the Syrian people. And that question of justice is going to come in pretty soon. How will justice be administered? We have ...

  • Brazil Supreme Court authorizes probe of Bolsonaro for Jan. 8 riot

    Brazil Supreme Court authorizes probe of Bolsonaro for Jan. 8 riot

    Jan 14, 2023 02:12 AM EST

    ... left the country before the riot, an indication that he was deliberately laying the groundwork for the unrest. The court also issued an arrest warrant for the former security chief, and he must return within three days or Brazil will request his extradition, Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Friday. “If ...

  • WATCH: Justice Department has asked court to unseal the search warrant of Mar-a-Lago

    WATCH: Justice Department has asked court to unseal the search warrant of Mar-a-Lago

    Aug 11, 2022 06:13 PM EST

    ... documents traditionally remain sealed during a pending investigation. But the Justice Department appeared to recognize that its silence since the search had created a vacuum for bitter attacks from the former president and his allies, and Garland felt it wise to respond to the widespread demands for details about what ...

  • Jackson Browne: ‘We could have a society in which justice is real’

    Jackson Browne: ‘We could have a society in which justice is real’

    Jul 25, 2021 06:46 PM EST

    Tom Casciato: Searching is one of several themes he has pursued throughout more than half a century as a singer songwriter. Though in one of his biggest hits, “Running On Empty,” he professed to be uncertain what he was looking for. Jackson Browne (singing):  I'm don’t even know ...

  • One Minnesota mayor on why communities need 'deep soul searching' after George Floyd's death

    One Minnesota mayor on why communities need 'deep soul searching' after George Floyd's death

    May 31, 2020 09:04 PM EST

    ... system, the criminal justice system?  Melvin Carter:  Well, I'll tell you, one of the things that's true about St. Paul is I ran for mayor as perhaps one of relatively few elected leaders around the country who knows what it feels like to be pulled over for driving ...

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