Antwon Womack's Birmingham school board win is being challenged in court by opponent Pam Bass, who claims he does not live in the district.

Conservative Supreme Court justices seemed inclined Wednesday to restrict the use of race-based redistricting when drawing ...

The US Supreme Court, hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, appeared inclined to limit ...

Mashhadani, a parliamentary candidate in Iraq, was killed in a car bombing north of Baghdad on Wednesday. He was running in ...

In 2013, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in a case known as Shelby v. Holder that removed the preclearance ...

Many international leaders have been forced into hiding during uprisings to avoid incarceration or retaliation.

The Trump administration's top courtroom attorney urged he justices to rule that partisan politics, not racial fairness, ...

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Wednesday in a major voting rights case, Louisiana v. Callais, that threatens to undermine the Voting Rights Act. Follow here for the latest live news ...

A Supreme Court case over Louisiana's congressional map could determine the future of Voting Rights Act protections against ...

A candidate for Iraq’s upcoming legislative elections was killed in the explosion of a car bomb in northern Baghdad, the ...

Most importantly, Roberts is an extraordinarily patient bulldozer. He plays space-age chess with precision; he moves slowly, steadily, technically. Even when he rewrites precedent and invents his own ...

Cambridge City Council candidates pushed Harvard to stand up to the Trump administration at a Tuesday night forum hosted by the Harvard College Democrats.