Immigrant-rights activists took a victory lap Friday over Fairfax County’s new sanctuary policy limiting police cooperation with federal immigration agents, saying it could protect thousands of illegal immigrants from being deported.
The U.S. Navy on Friday upheld the firing of Capt. Brett E. Crozier, who was relieved of his command aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt after a letter he wrote pleading for help for his coronavirus-stricken crew was leaked to the media.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration cut too many corners when it moved to revoke the Obama-era DACA program, leaving in place protections for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant “Dreamers.”
The hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant “Dreamers” protected by Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling are living the full range of the American experience.
Conspicuously absent from police overhaul plans proffered by the White House, Senate Republicans and House Democrats are moves that would weaken police unions and make it easier to weed out bad cops, a tactic that’s touted as key to turning around law-enforcement agencies.
Atlanta police officers called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a man in the back, while the interim chief acknowledged members of the force feel abandoned amid protests demanding massive changes to policing.
The mayor of a small Wyoming town and a police officer were charged this week after allegedly misusing a police database, prosecutors said.
Rap artist Hurricane Chris, known for the hit “A Bay Bay,” has been arrested on a murder charge in Louisiana.
Organizers of a peaceful march in the Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota, area on Friday to celebrate Juneteenth and denounce racial injustice said threats by city leaders and a federal prosecutor contributed to a low turnout, but promised there would be a better showing at a weekend protest.
Two white men have been arrested in an assault so severe that the 22-year-old black victim believed he was about to be killed. The NAACP has said the attack in Des Moines was racially motivated.
A former Arizona politician pleaded guilty in Utah on Friday to human smuggling and other charges in an illegal adoption scheme that stretched across three states and involved women from the Marshall Islands.
Police have identified a man killed in a shooting during an overnight party in Cedar Rapids earlier this week.
The team monitoring Cleveland police reforms as part of a court-ordered consent decree will review the actions of officers and supervisors during recent protests over racial injustice following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The White House defended President Trump's "gut" instincts on hiring advisers such as John R. Bolton who later turn on him, saying the president seeks a Lincolnesque "team of rivals" in the West Wing.
With a Black Lives Matter flag flying over the Connecticut state Capitol, Democratic state senators announced their commitment Friday to a multitude of legislative proposals aimed at addressing systemic racial inequities, including wide-ranging police reforms, and efforts to improve economic, educational and housing opportunities for racial minorities.
One man has died after a shooting in Toronto's north end, Canadian police said Friday.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse on Friday became the third of New York’s eight dioceses to file for bankruptcy protection as it defends itself against more than 100 lawsuits alleging clergy sexual misconduct.
A Billings woman pleaded not guilty Friday in the stabbing death of a 37-year-old man.
A drive-by shooting killed one man and wounded another in a parking lot behind a Los Angeles grocery story, police said.
The Memphis Police Department has decided to stop using “no-knock” warrants in the wake of the fatal shooting of a black Kentucky woman by narcotics detectives who burst into her home.
The city of Berkeley is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the person or people who fatally shot a University of California, Berkeley student while he took a walk in his neighborhood.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that many of the Floridians testing positive for COVID-19 are in their 30s and do not show symptoms, so "plenty" of hospital capacity remains.
A new proposal to give Georgia a law penalizing hate crimes - under attack from advocates who say it's too broad it would penalize crimes against nearly everyone and also lacks key protections for transgender people - rolled onto the runway Thursday and promptly went back to the hangar for more work.
Drawing direct comparisons to the death of George Floyd, a civil rights lawyer said he's filing suit against a Florida police department in the death of a 36-year-old white man who collapsed with an officer's knee on his neck.
