NEW YORK -- The trial of the New York City Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk practice ended on Monday as lawyers defending the city were peppered with sharp questions from the federal judge hearing the case.

But whether U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin will declare stop-and-frisk unconstitutional -- and whether she...

NEW YORK -- In more than four years of office, President Barack Obama has frequently praised the idea of whistleblowing. He even signed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act into law in 2012. But has he actually praised any whistleblowers by name?

That's a question The Huffington Post posed to several...

NEW YORK -- The Organization of American States on Friday released a report laying out a future in which more countries in the Western Hemisphere legalize marijuana.

Although marijuana decriminalization and legalization was only one "scenario" outlined in the report, drug policy reform advocates praised it as a...

NEW YORK -- Verizon Wireless turned over personal cellphone records for Associated Press journalists without giving them a chance to challenge subpoenas as part of an extraordinary Department of Justice national security leak investigation, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

But there was nothing extraordinary about what...

NEW YORK -- The legal basis for the FBI's past use of emergency requests to obtain telephone records should be kept secret, the Justice Department said in a court filing last week.

The Justice Department has admitted that the issuing of those "exigent letters" was a mistake. But...

NEW YORK -- An Iran sanctions bill being drafted by a bipartisan group of senators would make regime change the official U.S. policy toward the country, a religious anti-war group said Friday, expressing concern that the measure would increase the likelihood of armed conflict over Iran's nuclear program.

The Friends...

NEW YORK -- Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) said Thursday he was "extremely concerned" over revelations that the FBI continues to believe it can conduct warrantless email searches despite a federal appeals court's ruling that they are unconstitutional.

Using a public records request, the American Civil Liberties Union received

NEW YORK -- A federal district judge ruled on Wednesday that the government obtained a warrant to locate a suspected tax fraud properly, despite omitting details about the secret cell phone tracking technology it planed to use.

At issue is a device called a stingray that tricks cell...

NEW YORK -- Fed up with the military's limits on access to the court martial of Bradley Manning, the Army private who has admitted to sending hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents to the transparency organization WikiLeaks, a nonprofit group announced Thursday that it is crowdfunding a court stenographer to...

NEW YORK -- The Texas used-car dealer who pleaded guilty in a bizarre plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States was described in federal court as sad, scattered and bipolar by a psychiatrist testifying for his defense on Wednesday.

That pre-sentencing testimony came after Mexican drug...

NEW YORK -- The House Judiciary Committee created a bipartisan task force Tuesday to investigate whether the federal code over-criminalizes minor offenses. Advocates and lawmakers said the move could eventually help reduce the size of the massive federal prison population.

The over-criminalization task force was created by a Judiciary Committee...

NEW YORK -- Civil liberties advocates sued the Los Angeles Police and County Sheriff's Departments on Monday to gain access to records from automated license plate readers that may be collecting millions of motorists' daily movements. They say the devices, which have already logged 160 million "data points"...

NEW YORK -- Christopher Scott was on the inside for more than 12 years. Sitting on the unit, talking with the other guys, he made a promise: When he walked, he wouldn't forget about them.

"Next thing you knew, I got out of prison," he says.

More than three...

NEW YORK -- They are free to go, but they're going nowhere.

One of the reasons the United States prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is in the midst of a major hunger strike, with at least 100 detainees taking part, is that most of the prisoners there...

A new poll released Wednesday confirms what other surveys conducted in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings have already found: Americans are protective of their civil liberties.

By a 61 to 31 percent margin, the Time/CNN/ORC International poll found, Americans are more concerned that new...

NEW YORK -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has come out in favor of a good Samaritan law that would allow drug overdose victims to call 911 without fear of legal repercussions, drug policy reform advocates announced on Monday.

Christie's decision to reverse his earlier opposition to the bill paved...

NEW YORK -- White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske rolled out the latest annual federal drug control strategy this week. But his office has fallen well short of 2010 goals, a report released by the Government Accountability Office on Thursday found.

The GAO said the government...

Judith Miller, the reporter who covered the weapons of mass destruction beat for the New York Times in early 2003, had an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal yesterday called "How to Stop Terrorists Before They Kill." I noticed it via Media Matters.

The piece impresses...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection drones are a wasteful giveaway to defense contractors and a threat to civil liberties, a report released Wednesday by the Center for International Policy found. The report came the same day an advocacy organization called on the Federal Aviation Administration to strengthen drone...

A week after the Boston Marathon bombings, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds mixed support for increased surveillance of Americans.

According to the survey conducted April 22 and April 23, 40 percent of Americans say we need more surveillance cameras monitored by police in public places, although a...