Seventy years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended legal school segregation in America, researchers say school segregation has increased over the past three decades in major cities across the country.

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which struck down the “separate but equal...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the latest local school hit with a federal civil rights complaint, as a free speech group calls out the Cambridge campus for a “women of color” program that excludes white students.

The MIT program, “The Creative Regal Women of kNowledge” (CRWN), is at the center of the civil rights ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Randolph, Missouri, man is facing a charge of attempted voluntary manslaughter after he allegedly assisted in a suicide attempt, prosecutors said in a news release.

Clay County Prosecutor Zach Thompson also charged Christopher Ryan Crownover on Friday with one count of armed criminal action.

Prosecutors allege that ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams on Monday played down scathing remarks former Gov. Andrew Cuomo made over the weekend about health issues in NYC public housing as the fallen governor continues a public speaking circuit many see as laying the groundwork for his political comeback.

Cuomo, who stepped down as governor amid a sexual abuse scandal, ...Read more

ATLANTA — Alasia Franklin had a contagious, warm smile and an even brighter future. The Kennesaw State University student had dreams of becoming a nurse after college, fitting with how she often put others before herself, according to her family.

“She was a special individual to everyone she encountered,” her mother, Alinda Henderson-...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota legislators were more than a month into a quiet session when the unexpected happened: Uber and Lyft threatened to leave the Twin Cities over an ordinance enacted by the Minneapolis City Council, and a Democratic state senator was arrested and charged with felony first-degree burglary.

The two events would upend the ...Read more

CHICAGO — The brother of James Weiss, the politically connected business owner convicted of bribing two state elected officials, pleaded guilty Monday to lying to federal investigators about his brother’s mob contacts, including connections to notorious Outfit hit man Frank “The German” Schweihs.

Joseph “Joey” Weiss, 44, of Oak Lawn...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Davis resident is suing the University of California, Davis, and its top administrators for the school’s handling of the ongoing pro-Palestine encampment on campus.

Jonathan Groveman, a pro-Israel member of the Davis Oct. 7 Coalition and a counterprotester to the encampment since it began May 6, has filed a lawsuit ...Read more

Amal Clooney was among a group of U.K.-based international law experts who gave their unanimous approval to Karim Khan, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, to seek arrests warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders on war crimes charges.

“The attacks by ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Monday that his office had declined to file charges against four pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested Friday night by Penn Police while allegedly attempting to occupy a campus building, saying the evidence submitted by the university’s police force did not support the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — For four years, Vanessa Artis and her two adult children slept on the sidewalks of Parramore, hoping for a bed of their own.

Finally last year their fortunes began to change with the help of the Christian Service Center and a rush of federal funding that has made a surprisingly large dent in the neighborhood’s ongoing ...Read more

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on war crimes charges.

Karim Khan said in a statement that the charges relate to the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by the Hamas militant group, and also to the Israeli military...Read more

Kenyan President William Ruto landed in Atlanta on Monday for the start of a critical week of talks with the Biden administration over the long-planned deployment of a multinational security mission to Haiti.

The Kenyan-led mission could begin within days, despite concerns among some administration officials that preparations on the ground are ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden was not shouted down by pro-Palestinian protesters Sunday at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, but he used a commencement speech to address the anger that has fired up many other campuses and sent a key signal about his Middle East policy.

The speech at the private, all-male historically Black college was billed ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than five years after they began investigating Donald Trump and a month after the hush money trial began, Manhattan prosecutors rested their case against the former president Monday afternoon, moments after former fixer Michael Cohen wrapped up his testimony after four days on the stand.

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger ended ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A 13-year-old girl was arrested Friday after she allegedly called 911 and falsely reported a shooting at her middle school in Dania Beach, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.

The girl reported a shooting at Olsen Middle School on Friday afternoon and “told the dispatcher she was joking but the call had already ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Cars and trucks have clogged Baltimore’s two interstate tunnels following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, backing up traffic and slowing the speeds of area drivers, according to data analyzed by The Baltimore Sun and a private traffic management firm.

During the week ending March 30, Baltimore’s two remaining ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., the Supreme Court's most predictable conservative of late, is again battling complaints that some of his actions demand that he recuse himself from pending cases.

Alito has responded that he is a victim of unjust criticism.

Here's a look at some of the recent controversies.

What is the upside-down ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that his administration will conduct a “review” of the NYPD’s response to a pro-Palestine march in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn over the weekend after cops were caught on video punching demonstrators during the street protest.

The mayor didn’t say if the review will be conducted internally by the NYPD or...Read more