human rights and civil liberties

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials raided two prominent cultural venues — a popular art gallery and a publishing house — questioning workers about their ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Wednesday escalated its standoff with Poland over the rule of law under the new government, deciding to open a c...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An appeals court ruling is threatening to derail Mexico's effort to prosecute suspects in one of its most notorious crimes of recen...

PARIS (AP) — A leading Jewish authority in the French city Marseille has asked fellow Jews to refrain from wearing their traditional skull cap to stay...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House moved forward on legislation that would make it easier to obtain government records, as a new congressional report conclud...

MUNICH (AP) — An annotated edition of "Mein Kampf," the first version of Adolf Hitler's notorious manifesto to be published in Germany since the end o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign jumped at a chance Friday to portray rival Sen. Bernie Sanders as being at odds with Preside...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department produced "inaccurate and incomplete" responses to public records requests while Democratic presidential hopeful...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — With extremists finding fertile ground for recruitment online, the White House is dispatching top national security officials...

PHOENIX (AP) — A trial that begins this month in Phoenix is expected to reveal the inner workings of two secluded towns on the Arizona-Utah line that ...

BURIEN, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed an executive order aimed at curbing gun violence by improving data-sharing among government age...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The latest on North Korea's announcement that it conducted a hydrogen bomb test Wednesday (all times Seoul): 5:31 a.m. Thurs...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's move to tighten controls on gun sales could discourage some unlicensed private sellers from doing business ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With his emotional plea for America to embrace some gun control, President Barack Obama on Thursday thrust the contentious issue to ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Five men associated with a Hong Kong publisher known for books critical of China's leaders have vanished one by one in the last three...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Leah Chase has spent her culinary life on the cutting edge of history, mixing fine dining with her southern Louisiana roots at her ...

PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande has honored 17 victims killed in Islamic extremist attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a kos...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The latest developments after Saudi Arabia executes a prominent opposition Shiite cleric convicted of terrorism charges, s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Incendiary rhetoric has seeped into 2016 presidential politics, surfaced in the public debate over accepting Syrian refugees into th...

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama is looking for ways to keep guns out of the hands of "a dangerous few" without depending on Congress to pass a ...