Human Rights

The United States military has decided that no service members will face disciplinary charges for their involvement in a NATO airstrike in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, an …

A makeshift memorial for Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old who was shot to death by a neighborhood watchman last month, near the gated community where Martin was killed in Sanford, …

The Obamacare battle that will come before the Supreme Court in the longest hearings in nearly a half-century is a proxy fight between the seemingly irreconcilable differences in American …

After the end of World War II, a group of nations in the north Atlantic established NATO to impede Russian influence over the reconstruction of Europe and to facilitate …

There's a long tradition of pop culture fans banding together to raise money for or take action on good causes, whether it's the Browncoats, fans of Joss Whedon's Firefly …

The aftershocks of Trayvon Martin's killing continued to reverberate Thursday from Sanford to South Florida, as the embattled police chief and state attorney overseeing the investigation stepped down hours …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: Wesley Fryer, Allie_Caulfield)The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) closely monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement, providing agency officials with threat assessments, regular updates …

Miami - The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the fatal shooting last month of an unarmed black Florida teenager by a crime watch volunteer, a case that …

A sign warning about security camera surveillance hangs on a post near a construction site in Beijing, March 6, 2012. (Photo: Keith Bedford / The New York Times) …

(Photo: Giacomo Barbaro / Flickr) The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has been embroiled in national controversy after revelations that the department secretly infiltrated cities and …