The Oregon Department of Justice didn’t object soon enough after a nonprofit in Morrow County sold a local fiber-optic provider to five current and former members of the nonprofit’s board, defendants ...

Nothing about Jennifer Powers, at least on the surface, likely would have aroused much suspicion. The 45-year-old wife and stay-at-home mother lived in a $1.3 million, 5,600-square-foot house in the ...

Brazil, which will launch the new investment-driven fund for forest protection at the Belém climate summit, calls on other governments to put in seed capital Brazilian president Lula da Silva speaking ...

The U.S. civil rights agency responsible for enforcing worker rights will stop investigating complaints about company policies that don’t explicitly discriminate but may disproportionately harm ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A coalition of more than a dozen Oregon mayors, led by Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, has issued a joint letter rejecting any attempt to federally militarize the Portland metro ...

U.S. Court House, El Paso, Texas. A federal court in El Paso will hear arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging Texas' mid-decade round of congressional redistricting. Civil rights groups are ...

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – The civil case against three former San Antonio police officers accused of shooting and killing Melissa Perez in her Southwest Side apartment have been dismissed, court records ...

The Justice Department sued participants in a confrontation at a New Jersey synagogue that devolved into violence. An official said there might be more such cases to come. By Jonah E. Bromwich The ...

An Idaho couple was arrested after being accused of sending a violent, religious "manifesto" to the leaders of their former church The document threatened public officials and civilians and implored ...

When Civil Beat sought exhibits in the trial of an abusive Hawaiʻi foster dad, the Attorney General’s Office intervened to prevent “family trauma” from becoming public. It already had. The state of ...