A federal judge has ruled that ethnicity is not a valid factor in making an arrest, handing a victory to two Egyptian-born men who sued the government after they were detained at New York's Kennedy Airport. The government had sought to convince U.S ...

The New York Civil Liberties Union has demanded that city officials explain why they ordered a private art school to remove a banner displaying an image of Josef Stalin. In a letter Thursday to the Department of Buildings, NYCLU executive director Donna Lieberman expressed concern that the ...