The iconic skyscraper will be lit up in gold and cyan to celebrate the 45th anniversary of ABC News' iconic late-night show "Nightline." The show debuted as "Nightline" on March 24, 1980.

President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet late Thursday, signing an ...

the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which Nigeria has ratified. The League of Civil Society Organizations warned ...

But that ended in July 1964 when the U.S. Congress passed the “landmark civil rights and law that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.’’ ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country’s vice presidents, was arrested in the capital ...

In the last decade alone, authoritarian rule has denied civil and political liberties to billions. The idea of human rights has a long history, but only in the past century has the international ...

The event fell on the 45th anniversary of the killing of St. Oscar Romero, an El Salvadoran bishop who was assassinated at a hospital chapel in 1980 amid a civil war. Bishop Mark Seitz speaks at a ...

The tragedy at Covenant, a small Christian school in Nashville's Green Hills neighborhood, made headlines around the globe as it became the center of contentious political debates over gun control.

Machar’s political group said Thursday that a 2018 agreement that’s the basis for relative peace after a brutal civil is effectively ... according to the International Crisis Group, a Brussels ...

Fears of Civil War in South Sudan Stem From Political Rivalry Between the President ... is dangerously dry elsewhere," according to the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank.