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Academics, activists and police chiefs have been clamoring for national statistics on police use of force. A federal effort to collect those numbers voluntarily from police is floundering.

University scientists and former state employees say Florida Gov. Rick Scott's administration has directed them to avoid using the phrase "climate change." Scott denies the charge.

The state's biggest political corruption case in a decade involves Michael Madigan, the ex-state Democratic chairman and political kingmaker. He faces 22 counts — including racketeering and bribery.

It has become a symbol of the Russian invasion, painted on military vehicles, printed on T-shirts and widely distributed through social media in support of Moscow's war.

The Black Fire Brigade is an outside group whose mission is to boost the ranks of Black firefighters in Chicago. It recruits, trains and mentors men and women in minority communities.

The three former Minneapolis police officers have been found guilty of federal crimes — for failing to intervene as a fellow officer killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck.

The Williamsburg Bray School was an 18th-century, pro-slavery school for educating enslaved and free Black students. A new partnership is calling to educate the public about this history.

The Putin Pub, a 22-year-old mainstay of Jerusalem's Russian-speaking immigrant community, can no longer tolerate the joke of being named after President Putin.

Six adults and five children lost their lives during the 1985 attack on Philadelphia's MOVE compound. And now two Ivy League universities can't confirm the whereabouts of the remains of two children.

A federal judge will dismiss Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times even as the jury continues to deliberate.