Justice Department to investigate Chicago police
By DON BABWIN and ERIC TUCKER The U.S. Justice Department is expected to start investigating the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department this week in the wake of…
Race and ethnicity
Criminal justice issues showing up in 2016 presidential race
By ERIC TUCKER On the campaign trail, among candidates of both parties, the idea of locking up drug criminals for life is a lot less popular than it was a…
Suu Kyi’s party wins historic majority in Myanmar polls
By GRANT PECK Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party attained a historic majority in Myanmar’s Parliament on Friday, making it possible for them to form the Southeast Asian…
Missouri students, football players pressure school leaders
By The Associated Press Student protests at the University of Missouri over how racially charged incidents have been handled by school leaders have ramped up over the semester and reached…
Half of black millennials know victim of police violence
By JESSE J. HOLLAND Years before the high-profile deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of African-American millennials indicated they, or someone they knew, had…
Justices review DA’s choice of all-white murder trial jury
By MARK SHERMAN and KATE BRUMBACK Prosecutor Stephen Lanier’s meaning was unmistakable when he urged jurors in north Georgia to sentence the defendant to death in part to deter other…
Eritrean dies after Israeli guard shoots him, mob attacks
By DANIEL ESTRIN An Eritrean migrant shot by an Israeli security guard and then attacked by bystanders who mistook him for an assailant in a deadly bus station attack has…
Longtime Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes dies at 90
Former U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes, a 15-term congressman from Ohio who took on tough assignments looking into assassinations and scandals, has died. He was 90. He died peacefully with his…