Omar Wasow was studying race and politics at Stanford University when on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted the police officers ...

Legal experts say when National Guard members are deployed into what could be volatile situations with citizens, they could ...

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

Vermont Governor Phil Scott has declined a second request from the Trump administration to deploy the Vermont National Guard ...

Back in early spring, Trump’s efforts upended the U.S. Institute of Peace, among other institutions and departments. On ...

District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit saying Trump is going beyond his legal power over the ...

President Trump takes on crime in DC and negotiations with Russia. Plus, KCRW discusses whether presidential power can drive ...

The showdown in Washington is the latest attempt by Trump to test the boundaries of his legal authority to carry out his tough-on-crime agenda, relying on obscure statutes and a supposed state of ...

The deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., affects all Americans, even Mainers. Washington is our seat of government — and like our nation, it is meant to be governed by citizens and ...

Trump compels his followers to endorse obvious lies. It’s accelerating the country’s descent in authoritarianism.

Texas redistricting fight nears conclusion{beacon}President Trump made new demands for peace between Russia and Ukraine as he touched down in Alaska at 2:20 p.m. Eastern on Friday for a ...

An RCMP team patrolling the waters near the border between Canada and the United States helped rescue a group of 12 kayakers, ...