human rights and civil liberties

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Police Department is turning to a new tool in its effort to teach its future officers about tolerance and understand...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In August, Mohammed Rasool was helping two Western journalists with a dangerous assignment along Turkey's border with Iraq. Cities i...

NEW YORK (AP) — Drinking, and not drinking, is as old as America itself, from the beer-loving pilgrims on the Mayflower and Paul Revere's boozy horse ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Responding to a furor over undercover videos, Planned Parenthood says it will maintain programs at some of its clinics that make fetal...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post journalist who has been detained in Iran for more than a year on charges including espionage, h...

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — Planning is underway to place a Liberty Bell replica atop Stone Mountain near Atlanta as a memorial to the Rev. Martin Luth...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops backed by Russian airstrikes advanced against insurgents in the center of the country as President Vladimir Putin defended...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — It was the fall of 2013 and Tunisia's newfound democracy was in grave danger. The assassination of a left-wing politician had pr...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Gun-rights activists and others gave voice to strong emotions on Friday when President Barack Obama came to meet privately with ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis directed the attention of the world's bishops to real-world crises Friday by denouncing the escalation of conflicts i...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Latest news from the awarding of the Nobel Prize in literature. ___ 7:15 p.m. A Russian literature scholar says it will be interestin...

CHICAGO (AP) — The mass shooting at an Oregon community college last week has thrust the debate over the nation's gun laws to the center of the presid...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of the Oregon gunman who killed nine in a college classroom apparently wrote about her love of guns in an online foru...

LONDON (AP) — Time Out magazine has defended its use of a slogan including the word slave on a T-shirt worn by Meryl Streep to promote the movie "Suff...

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — Facebook and thousands of other companies could find it vastly more complicated to do business in Europe after a court ruled that pe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is starting a new term that promises a steady stream of divisive social issues, and also brighter prospects for co...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The only gun store in San Francisco is shuttering for good, saying it can no longer operate in the city's political climate of in...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kim Davis' lawyer stood onstage in a Washington D.C. hotel and pointed to a photo on the screen. It showed 100,000 people packe...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican turned the tables on the Kim Davis affair Friday: Not only did it distance Pope Francis from her claims that he endors...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Armed with multiple guns, a 26-year-old man walked into a morning writing class at a community college in this rural Oregon town...