political and civil unrest

PARIS (AP) — The latest from the much-anticipated U.N. climate conference that gets underway in Paris on Monday. All times local: 8:30 p.m. The Eiffel...

PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in rallies around the world on Sunday, calling on leaders to halt climate change on the e...

PARIS (AP) — Government and business leaders are banking on clean energy technology to fight global warming, kicking off this week's high-stakes clima...

CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of protesters blocked store entrances and shut down traffic in Chicago's ritziest shopping district on Black Friday to draw at...

NEW YORK (AP) — Black Friday, the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season, isn't always what people expect. In Colorado, for instance, marijua...

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans paused Thursday to celebrate their blessings despite terrorism fears and racial tensions over fatal police shootings across ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The latest on the aftermath of the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer (all times local): 2:05 p.m. A march ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Protest groups were set to return to the streets of Chicago on Wednesday, one day after the city released a squad-car video showing a w...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A night after a shooting near a Minneapolis protest that left five people injured, hundreds of demonstrators at the same site quiet...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police searched Tuesday for three white gunmen suspected of shooting five Black Lives Matter demonstrators, while the family of a b...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Justice Department attorneys are expected to fly to Minnesota on Sunday to investigate the killing of a black man that has pro...

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — The latest news as hundreds of thousands make their way across Europe in search of safety and a better life. All times local:...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Authorities have arrested 12 people who tried to block the entrance to a theater performance in Poland they deemed pornographic....

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Princeton University has agreed to look into the legacy of alumnus and former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson after a group of st...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a Minneapolis police officer has pushed racial tensions in the city's small but conce...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minneapolis police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man are seven-year veterans, including 13 months...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — On the same downtown block where Nashville police officers carried a young John Lewis by his hands and feet to a paddy wagon f...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 50 people were arrested during the second day of protests in Minneapolis over the shooting of a black man by a police off...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A recent groundswell of protests on college campuses over race, sexual misconduct and other social issues has some civil libertar...

CAIRO (AP) — The criticism was blunt — and startling, since it came from a TV presenter on a state-owned station that, like most other media in Egypt,...