Ari Aster’s COVID-era Western “Eddington” has premiered to a mixed reception at the Cannes Film Festival.

An audit of Maryland autopsies has uncovered at least 36 in-custody police deaths that should have been considered homicides.

Designer Prabal Gurung has always been a storyteller.

A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington, D.

After three former Memphis police officers were acquitted in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, community and civil rights leaders are expressing outrage over another disappointment in the long push for police reform.

The family of a U.S. airman who was killed by a Florida sheriff’s deputy inside his own home in 2024 has sued the deputy, the sheriff and the owner of the airman's apartment complex.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has filed a federal lawsuit against a former Florida sheriff’s deputy and others in the May 2024 shooting death of 23-year-old U.S. Senior Airman Roger Fortson.

The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

Police strongly suspect that a pair of shootings three blocks apart in Minneapolis that left four people dead and two others seriously injured were connected and were gang related.

President Donald Trump says he is bringing back Columbus Day.

The departure in 1975 of the last Americans from Vietnam didn't only end a tragic chapter in the history of the two countries.

The Philadelphia district attorney who became a campaign trail punching bag for Republicans amid rising crime in U.S. cities during the coronavirus pandemic is running for reelection on the back end of a withering effort to oust progressive district attorneys nationwide.

Thousands of demonstrators from New York to Alaska protested against President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.

The acting chief of the top federal agency for protecting worker rights has signaled a pivot toward prioritizing President Donald Trump’s campaign to stamp out diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the private and public sectors.

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Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders are sharply rebuking President Donald Trump for his order targeting the Smithsonian Institution.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance says Denmark has “underinvested” in Greenland’s security and demanded that the country change its approach.

The Black creators of some consumers products are rethinking their business plans as major U.S. companies end or water down their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Voters in Oakland, California, recalled their mayor in November over crime, homelessness and allegations of corruption.

Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House.

A growing number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in 2020.

Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery for more than a century.

The nation's capital city will remove the large painting of the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street one block from the White House.

Oscar contender “Emilia Pérez” has been named the best French film of the year at the Césars awards — France’s equivalent of the Oscars.

President Donald Trump’s firing of Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is drawing mixed reactions on Capitol Hill.

The moment that local officials in our nation’s capital have been dreading for months is finally here.

Florida’s new attorney general has filed a federal court lawsuit against Target, claiming the discount store chain “misled investors” by promoting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Papal thriller “Conclave” won four prizes including best picture at the British Academy Film Awards, at a ceremony with no single dominant winner, “The Brutalist” also won four trophies on Sunday including best director for Brady Corbet.

A judge has granted the release of former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield after his 2020 rape conviction was vacated by a California appeals court last December.

Genesee County Chris Swanson has told The Associated Press he's launching a Democratic bid to be Michigan's next governor.

Google is scrapping some of its diversity hiring targets, joining a lengthening list of U.S. companies that have been abandoning or scaling back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit by a woman who alleged that ex-Officer Derek Chauvin hauled her from her minivan and pinned her to the ground with his knee in January 2020, just as he did four months later when he killed George Floyd.

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” is an Oscar contender unlike any other.

Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated lead of the movie “Emilia Pérez,” is apologizing for her old social media posts that denigrated Islam and that called George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”.

Civil rights activists have gathered outside Target's Minneapolis headquarters to call for a boycott of the retailing giant over its decision to phase out its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

President Donald Trump is making plans to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence with an “extraordinary celebration” and a new national monument.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling the security protections and clearance of retired Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley.

Target’s rollback on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is raising questions about the retail giant’s philanthropic commitment to fighting racial disparities and promoting progressive values in liberal Minneapolis, where it is based, and beyond.

Discount store chain Target says it’s joining rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back corporate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

The Right Rev. Mariann Budde, Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Washington, made headlines this week after she angered President Donald Trump with her sermon during an inaugural prayer service.

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.

In a story published Jan. 17, 2025, about former football player Dana Stubblefield, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Stubblefield was convicted of raping a developmentally disabled woman.

A former police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol with fellow members of the Proud Boys extremist group has been sentenced to 14 months in prison.

The Minneapolis City Council has approved an agreement with the federal government to overhaul police training and use-of-force policies in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

A judge has granted permission to lawyers for Derek Chauvin to have samples from George Floyd examined as part of the former Minneapolis police officer’s efforts to challenge his conviction on a federal civil rights charge stemming from Floyd’s death in 2020.

Michigan Democrats are charting their path forward after significant setbacks in the 2024 election.

Military leaders are rattled by a list of “woke” senior officers that a conservative group is urging Pete Hegseth to dismiss for promoting diversity in the ranks if he is confirmed to lead the Pentagon.

Memphis’ mayor is pushing back against the need for a Justice Department deal to enact reforms in light of the scathing findings of an investigation into the Memphis Police Department.

The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and discriminates against Black people, according to the findings of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation launched after the beating death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in 2023.

The Border Patrol has been quickly growing its ranks of chaplains to help with mounting distress.

Walmart’s sweeping rollback of its diversity policies is the strongest indication yet of a profound shift taking hold at U.S. companies that are re-evaluating the legal and political risks associated with bold programs to bolster historically underrepresented groups in business.

Donald Trump’s first stint in the White House proved to be a chaotic ride for the nation's capital.

The incoming district attorney for Los Angeles County, Nathan Hochman, says in an interview with The Associated Press that his first task in office is to eliminate the “pro-criminal blanket policies” of one of California’s most high-profile progressive prosecutors, George Gascón.

A federal jury has convicted a former Kentucky detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor the night she was shot to death by police officers in 2020.

Michael Brown’s fatal shooting by police a decade ago set off more than a week of protests by thousands of people in Ferguson, Missouri.

Three white men serving life sentences for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery are asking a Georgia judge for a new trial.

A lot of political changes are coming to Portland, Oregon.

A judge has ordered no additional jail time for a security guard for his role in the death of a man at a Detroit-area mall more than 10 years ago.

A former county sheriff has been selected to lead the Los Angeles Police Department, taking charge of the nation's third-largest police force.

Ten years ago, 3.7 million Californians voted for a landmark measure that made many nonviolent crimes misdemeanors instead of felonies.

Donald Trump has suggested that “one rough hour” of law enforcement action would tamp down retail theft, an echo of his thematic campaign support for more aggressive policing measures.

A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood since 1910.

A judge is freeing from prison a Colorado paramedic convicted in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020.

Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be the Democratic vice presidential candidate has revived the debate over how he handled the biggest crisis of his political career.

It was the biggest crisis of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's political career.

More than 200 cities and counties declared racism was a public health crisis in the past few years, mostly after George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis in May 2020.

Home improvement chain Lowe’s is scaling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining the ranks of a few other companies who have altered their programs since the end of affirmative action in higher education and amid conservative backlash online.

For some Christian progressives, the lack of acknowledgement by their churches or ministries of the racial reckoning in 2020 was the final push to go elsewhere.

The family of a young Black U.S. Air Force airman gunned down by a Florida sheriff’s deputy is represented by a prominent civil rights lawyer.

This month marks 10 years since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will face a national audience when he headlines the third night of the Democratic National Convention.

The ex-Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd has been transferred to a federal prison in Texas almost nine months after he was stabbed in a different facility.

Jurors have heard opening statements in the trial of three security guards more than 10 years after the death of a man at a suburban Detroit shopping mall.

All four hotel workers charged in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death are now in custody, more than five weeks after they allegedly piled onto the Black man while trying to remove him from a Milwaukee hotel.

Gov. Tim Walz and his fellow Democrats have enacted big changes in the two years that they’ve had full control of the Minnesota Legislature, from expansions of abortion and LGBTQ+ rights to initiatives aimed at making life easier for families.

Former President Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance have been hammering Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over his response to the violence that erupted in the aftermath of the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged four former hotel workers in connection with D'Vontaye Mitchell's death after a bystander's video showed them piling on the Black man as they tried to remove him from the lobby.

Prosecutors charged four Milwaukee hotel employees with being a party to felony murder in connection with a Black man’s death.

The prosecutor elected in George Floyd’s county after his murder is facing fierce backlash not even halfway into her term.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ first 2024 presidential campaign video is soundtracked by Beyoncé’s “Freedom,” a cut from her 2016 landmark album, “Lemonade.”.

Officials have released body camera video that reveals a chaotic scene in which a Black woman in Springfield, Illinois, who called 911 for help was shot in the face in her home by a white sheriff’s deputy.

It has been 10 years since the chokehold death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York City police officers made “I can’t breathe” a rallying cry.

Calls for justice in the death of a Black man who was pinned to the ground during a struggle with security guards at a Milwaukee hotel are growing.

The Rev. Al Sharpton is set to travel to Milwaukee to deliver a eulogy for a Black man who died after being pinned to the ground by hotel security guards.

Four protesters have been awarded nearly $700,000 after they were jailed for writing anti-police slogans in chalk on a temporary police barricade on Jan. 1, 2021.

A new attraction starring the first Black Disney princess is opening at the company's theme parks in Florida and California.

A Minneapolis police officer who was killed by a man he was trying to help at the site of a shooting is being memorialized as someone who exemplified the type of public servant the city’s police force has been trying to recruit amid years of tumult.

The family of Rick Cobb II say they were mistreated by government officials and failed by a system that rarely holds law enforcement accountable.

A progressive Minnesota prosecutor who was elected on a platform of police accountability has reluctantly dropped charges against a state trooper who fatally shot a Black man after a traffic stop.

Civil rights attorneys say a new Louisiana law that makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet of a police officer under certain circumstances is an affront to the movement for racial justice and violates the First Amendment.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing questions about his commitment to a suite of reforms required by a federal settlement aimed at changing how the NYPD polices protests.

A former employee is suing the city of Minneapolis, alleging ex-police Officer Derek Chauvin hauled her from her minivan and pinned her to the ground with his knee in January 2020, just as he did four months later when he killed George Floyd.

A centrist candidate who has vowed to be tough on crime is leading in the race for top prosecutor in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, in a contest that is seen as a referendum on voter concerns over homelessness, public drug use and disorder.

White men are most likely to lead the largest, best-funded nonprofits, while women of color tend to lead the organizations with the fewest financial resources, according to a study from the nonprofit data research organization Candid released Thursday.

A Florida deputy's fatal shooting of a U.S. service member has jarred the former top enlisted officer of the Air Force.

Ronald Greene’s deadly arrest on a rural Louisiana roadside in 2019 sparked outrage after The Associated Press published long-suppressed body-camera video showing white state troopers stunning, beating and dragging the Black motorist as he wailed, “I’m scared!”.

Body camera video shows a Florida sheriff’s deputy announced himself as law enforcement just before fatally shooting a Black U.S. Air Force airman inside his apartment in the state’s Panhandle.

Although it might be tempting to compare the U.S. campus protests to the anti-Vietnam War movement of a half century ago, experts say that would be an overreaction at this point.

A Colorado judge has sentenced a former paramedic to a jail work release program and probation in the death of Elijah McClain.

Journalists see themselves as truth-tellers, and sometimes as contrarians.