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The Minnesota attorney general who prosecuted Derek Chauvin wants Congress to act on police reform. He wants to see a national registry of "bad cops" and limitations on qualified immunity.

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and Police Chief Eric Hawkins gave an update this morning on their efforts to stop the gun violence that plagued 2021 in the new year.

A flood of threats has followed Michigan's school shooting. Information about missed warning signs has spurred a conversation about threats and how to reassure families that classrooms are safe.

It’s political science 101: The executive proposes and the legislative branch disposes. Last week, Governor Hochul proposed her $216 billion state budget. Her plans include not only spending proposals, but policy changes as well.

At trial is underway for guards accused of beating a man in an Illinois prison so badly that he died. There are allegations of similar beatings in the same location, long before Larry Earvin's death.

Should the atrocities in Ukraine be called war crimes, ethnic cleansing or genocide? The terms can be tricky to differentiate, but experts say the separate labels are crucial when seeking justice.

Ken Lay, the former chairman of Enron, testifies that he was not responsible for Enron's collapse. He blames former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow and The Wall Street Journal for destroying the company. Lay faces six counts of conspiracy and fraud.

Iran remains the most active state sponsor of terrorism, and suicide bombings are up worldwide, says the State Department in its just-released annual report on global terrorism. Among the trends it identifies: More than half the deaths from global terror attacks in 2005 were in Iraq. And al-Qaida leaders are losing some control over global terrorist activity.

Security forces battle anti-government protesters in the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. Some accounts say hundreds of people have died in the country's eastern Fergana Valley. Martha Brill Olcott of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers details.

Brenda Wineapple's highly engaging biography White Heat examines the poet's enduring friendship with editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson.