The high court declined to decide the constitutionality of birthright citizenship itself. But the justices said the Trump executive order rewriting the constitutional right to birthright citizenship ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Friday in a major decision reined in nationwide injunctions by some lower courts that had blocked ...

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Only once — in 1897 — have Republicans not held at least one branch of state government. When they regained power in 1900, ...

All four U.S. senators from Kansas and Missouri voted in favor Tuesday of President Trump’s domestic policy bill dubbed the ...

Nebraska advocates shifted their attention to House Republicans after U.S. Sens. Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts voted to ...

Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, known formally as 42 U.S.C. §1983, is a federal law that allows for the suing ...

The coordinated attacks on the labor movement and workers rights are continuing to chip away at union density—and corporate ...

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the sweeping Civil Rights Act into law, bolstering the struggle against racial discrimination and disenfranchisement in the United States ...

Daugherty reproduced Charles Walker’s Civil War diary on a typewriter in 1929, according to Troy Walker, Daugherty’s grandson, who retyped the diary for his Rio presentation. After his Civil War ...

A federal judge sided with state officials and allowed a Kansas law to go into effect that bans “foreign nationals” from ...