It is part of my contract as a contributor writer for America to periodically provoke. When Matt Malone, S.J., first invited me to join as a columnist several years ago, he asked me to surprise my ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria's government and its ally Russia accused Washington on Thursday of concocting a "provocation" in Syria, which would then be blamed on President Bashar Assad's government as ...

In his Section 1983 Litigation column, Martin A. Schwartz writes that the U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned the Ninth Circuit's "provocation doctrine" on the ground that it was inconsistent with ...

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] 8-0 to strike down [transcript, PDF] the “provocation rule” created by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...

On Wednesday, March 22, the eight-justice court will hear argument in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, a Fourth Amendment civil action filed by two people shot by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies ...

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks as his wife Karen Pence listens during a dinner with soldiers and family members after Easter Sunday church services at a military base in Seoul, South Korea, ...

Amid protests breaking out around the world, Sumaya Awad explains the background to Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel. THIS MONTH marks the 30th anniversary of the first ...

In March, I wrote about the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Los Angeles County v. Mendez, which was a challenge to the “provocation rule,” a legal concept exclusive to the U.S. Court of ...

We write as members of KGNU’s OutSources Collective. Our group has been asked to respond to questions about appropriate measures people might take in the face of public speakers who engage in rhetoric ...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Thursday accused South Korea of firing 450 machine gun rounds at a flock of birds earlier this week, dismissing as a fabrication Seoul's claim that it had fired ...

Police and CrimeStoppers are asking for the public’s help in finding a 24-year-old man wanted in connection with the murder of a 51-year-old man who died last week – a week after being assaulted in a ...

After a week of jury selection, the felony trial of a 40-year-old Vallejo man charged with the murder of two men and attempted murder of three more in early 2017 in Vallejo began with attorneys’ ...