On his first day in office, Carter issued an executive order pardoning more than 200,000 men who evaded the Vietnam draft.

After 46,000 dead and countless more from disease and starvation, Palestinians can celebrate a truce, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER, yet even as the Democrat and Republican leaders scramble to take credit ...

Political organizers will stage numerous Bay Area protests against Donald Trump as he prepares to take office as president.

Lipstadt first drew international attention for her defeat of a libel suit filed by British author David Irving, whom she accused of Holocaust denial in her 1996 book, “Denying the Holocaust.” The ...

Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken was confronted by two journalists as he delivered his final news conference ...

A Russian court handed down prison sentences of between 42 and 66 months Friday to three lawyers of the late Russian ...

The legislation is similar to a law passed in Louisiana, which last year became the first U.S. state to permit judges to ...

Iowa would allow surgical castration to be imposed as a punishment for certain sex crimes committed against children under a bill introduced in the Iowa House.

I'm a natural born cynic, of course, but I can't help but think that this ceasefire, this lull in the killing, is meant to erase, if not the memory of, at least the responsibility for, the killing ...

According to the January 8 Guardian, the New York Times refused to publish an anti-war ad from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) that referred ...

Three lawyers for Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died last year in an Arctic prison, have been found guilty by a ...