The longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison on federal corruption ...

A CALIFORNIA Democrat has been thrown out of an LA protests news conference and handcuffed in a dramatic scene as he tried to ...

LOS ANGELES − Two people have been charged with throwing firebombs during five days of protests that have rocked a downtown ...

The protests — which began Friday after federal immigration raids in LA — have caused chaos in the nation’s second-largest ...

Tensions escalated after President Donald Trump called up the National Guard over the objections of state and city leaders.

ICE protests downtown had a powerful backdrop: the 1990 Barbara Kruger mural 'Questions,' which interrogates the very nature of power and control.

Project Safe Neighborhoods, led by the U.S. Justice Department, has been in place since 2001 in seven West and South side ...

The U.S. Justice Department program started in 2001 to try to secure stiffer prison sentences for gun offenders. Up to now in Chicago, it was concentrated in high-crime areas on the West and South ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois on Wednesday announced the expansion of its Project Safe ...

Former legal heavyweight Tom Girardi was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years and three months in federal prison for ripping ...

As a newly minted special agent for the FBI in the early 2000s, Douglas DePodesta cut his teeth on a squad that went after Colombian and Mexican drug cartels that used the city as a hub for ...