As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” Benjamin Franklin American polymath: a writer, ...

Who killed John F. Kennedy? Decades after the President’s assassination on November 22, 1963, a botched investigation clouds our conclusions about the crime.

President Donald Trump's oversight of an increasingly unreliable U.S. power grid requires swift action, he said this week, but there is no easy fix for one of the ... local and state actors could ...

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(Reuters) - President Donald Trump's oversight of an increasingly unreliable U.S. power grid requires swift action, he said this week, but there is no easy fix ... require an Act of Congress.

Attorneys in the department’s Civil Rights Division were ordered not to file any new complaints, amicus briefs or other certain court papers “until further notice,” one of the memos said. Another memo ...

Johnson's order was issued against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement, following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It served as a cornerstone in ...

The seal of the United States Department of Justice is seen on the building exterior of the United States Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, New York City ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump takes office for his second term as ...

Advocates and legal experts say one order, which revokes the enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, also known as Title VII under the Civil Rights Act, will have a chilling effect.

The Justice Department has ordered the civil rights division to halt much of its investigative activity dating from the Biden administration and not pursue new indictments, cases or settlements ...