WASHINGTON – Prosecutors on Thursday filed additional charges against more than 200 protesters who were arrested during President Trump’s inauguration in January. While the majority of the protesters were initially charged with one count of felony rioting, a grand jury ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Supreme Court can keep protesters off its marble plaza without violating their constitutional right to free speech. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that ...

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FLORISSANT, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Thursday that unspecified “operational shifts” are ahead for law enforcement in the St. Louis suburb that has been the scene of violent protests since a police officer fatally shot an unarmed black ...

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NEW YORK — Fast-food workers in dozens of U.S. cities walked off the job Thursday in their largest round of protests yet, saying they cannot get by on what they earn and must have higher wages. Similar protests organized by ...

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Days after a district court struck down a federal law barring speeches, protests and other demonstrations on U.S. Supreme Court property, the court has made a move of its own to ensure that protestors remain on the public sidewalk rather ...

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Demonstrators hold a banner on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Tuesday during a protest against the death penalty. Fourteen people have been arrested in connection with the protests, and will likely be charged with illegally ...

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The issue of whether the First Amendment allows protests on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court will soon land before the justices. Members of a group arrested in 2008 after protesting the Guantanamo Bay detention camp on the steps of the Supreme Court will ask that very court to rule that the arrests violated their free speech rights.

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New legislation introduced by Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature would make it illegal to protest at funerals for members of the military. The proposal is in reaction to the March 2 U.S. Supreme Court decision ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families.

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WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices on Wednesday pondered the vexing question of whether the father of a dead Marine should win his lawsuit against a fundamentalist church group that picketed his son's funeral.

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