Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

Long Island Democrats and civil rights attorneys are fighting back against a plan to deputize private citizens, calling the ...

Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed militia, has long been the country’s dominant political force and has formed part of the ...

Twenty-two states are suing New York, contending that a new law forcing energy companies to pay $75 billion into a fund to ...

Following two years that saw little help from Washington, there is now a 'refreshing change in tone,' her sister, Emma, tells ...

A New York Republican county executive is being sued over a move to deputize citizens for law-enforcement efforts, with ...

The suit claims a Republican county executive's creation of an armed unit of volunteer residents amounts to an “illegal, ...

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

Democrats in suburban New York are suing a Republican county executive over his creation of an armed unit of volunteer ...

The suit challenges the legality of the “special deputy sheriffs” program announced in March 2024 to public outcry by ...

The so-called “militia” refers to the “provisional emergency special deputy sheriffs” program Blakeman established on March 17, 2024. The program deputizes volunteer citizens who are licensed to carry ...