Consent decrees have had mixed results. In Los Angeles, which exited its 12-year agreement in 2013, the police department ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson joins The Weekend to discuss Trump’s Justice Department using legal retribution to open up an ...

A recent workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine highlighted the central role prosecutors ...

The practice of powerful officials hiring from within their own ethnic group is a tried-and-true tradition in the ...

If the Illinois Climate and Equitable Jobs Act survives Trump’s promised legal challenge, Vistra and NRG plants would need to ...

Hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett went on a bizarre Instagram rant in which he repeated his widely-debunked claim that he was ...

Jussie Smollett is speaking out after reaching a settlement with the city of Chicago in a civil case related to investigation into a 2019 incident.

Jussie Smollett settled a civil lawsuit denying any wrongdoing and donated $60K to Chicago charities while maintaining his ...

Daniel Israel, the former president of Pontiac-based Asphalt Specialists, was sentenced to serve six months in federal prison ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been instructed to arrest people immediately after a judge has ordered ...

Elias Rodriguez is charged in a deadly shooting of two Israeli diplomats in D.C., facing federal and local accusations ...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has become a key figure in the Democratic legal battle against Trump’s executive orders ...