On Tuesday, Ferguson City Council voted 4-3 to slash its spending on the decree in half, from $412,700 to $206,350. The ...

In 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice, under then-President Joe Biden, entered into a court-ordered agreement with Lakeland Bank to halt redlining in Black and Latino neighborhoods in Newark and ...

Five years ago this week, “the summer of protests” erupted. On May 26, 2020, in Minneapolis, protesters responded to George ...

Mayor Craig Greenberg created the commission as part of the Safe Louisville Violence Reduction Plan following the DOJ's move ...

The dangerous pullback by the Justice Department is likely to result in more wrongful deaths at the hands of police — ...

Last month, just days before the five-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, a consent decree that was supposed to usher in significant law ...

Minneapolis' proposed consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice has been dismissed, but city leaders are still pushing for those police reforms to take legal force.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the school’s handling of campus antisemitism violated civil rights law and is grounds ...

Pam Bondi's Justice Department just successfully sued Texas to enforce a law keeping states from offering in-state tuition to ...

Patricia Lopez Nearly five years to the week since George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, a consent decree that was supposed to usher in significant law enforcement reforms in the ...

Honolulu’s sewage spills have plummeted in the last two decades thanks to extensive federally mandated upgrades, including ...