The Herald-Leader is celebrating Lexington’s 250th birthday by revisiting key moments in the city’s vibrant history, ...

Here’s a look at ongoing civil war in Syria. Facts Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria as president from July 2000-December 2024. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria from 1970-2000. The ongoing violence ...

Trump’s administration choices have obliterated the moral high ground once occupied by the nation. The result is an America ...

President Donald Trump has nominated a Republican attorney who was once accused of mishandling taxpayer funds and who has a ...

Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) stands up for the LGBT community in a speech Saturday at the Human Rights Campaign convention. "For ten years, ever since Donald Trump descended that ridiculous gold escalator ...

Following Trump's lead, organizations including Walmart, Lowe’s and Meta have announced they would scale back their ...

WorldPride organizers are facing increasing attacks on their funding in the wake of the administration’s attempts to end ...

Wolfgang Kaleck, founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, talks about the need for a universal, international criminal justice system instead of one where only some nations ...

The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is not an isolated event—it is a chilling testament to the authoritarian turn in the United ...

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, note with alarm the number of arrests and incidents of harassment and violence against individuals and human rights defenders exercising their right to ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

Human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty ... was in the United States seeking asylum because of ...