• 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 ...

  • For Clinton, a daily dose of faith along with politics

    For Clinton, a daily dose of faith along with politics

    Oct 15, 2016 04:11 PM EST

    At about 5 a.m. each day — maybe a little later on weekends — an email from the Rev. Bill Shillady arrives in Hillary Clinton's inbox. The contents? A reading from Scripture. A devotional commentary. And a prayer. They're sometimes inspired by the headlines — focusing recently, for example, on ...

  • Democrats begin to do some soul searching

    Democrats begin to do some soul searching

    Jan 29, 2015 02:14 PM EST

    ... Be the first to tweet us the correct answer using #PoliticsTrivia and you’ll get a Morning Line shout-out. Congratulations to Joni Johnson ‏(@celeste1958) for guessing Wednesday’s trivia: How many current Supreme Court justices are Jewish? The answer: 3- Justices Kagan, Breyer and Ginsburg. 2016 Everyone slow down ...

  • How do we bridge the divide among Americans over race and justice? - Part 2

    How do we bridge the divide among Americans over race and justice? - Part 2

    Nov 27, 2014 01:21 AM EST

    ... Are you as optimistic, Isabel Wilkerson? ISABEL WILKERSON: In the long term, I'm optimistic. In the short term, I think that we're in for a great deal of soul-searching and needing to reach across boundaries to understand our differing perceived and lived experiences. I think that that ...

  • Mideast tensions escalate in cycle of retribution for teen killings

    Mideast tensions escalate in cycle of retribution for teen killings

    Jul 07, 2014 11:54 PM EST

    ... the Palestinian teen confessed to the crime today. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned the teen's father and vowed the killers would be brought to justice. Tonight, Hamas fired dozens of rockets into Israel, claiming revenge for Israeli airstrikes overnight which they say killed six of its members. A short ...