Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is facing a major corruption trial that critics say targets Turkey’s opposition and threatens democracy.

Istanbul's jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, argued with the presiding judge on Monday in a chaotic start to a sweeping ...

Results of the first phase of a forensic audit that was ordered to analyze county contracts between January 2019 and August ...

The scandal-soaked former Democratic super mayor of an Illinois village has resurfaced as a Republican after relocating to Georgia.

AT FIRST GLANCE, the latest Trumpian weirdness seems almost endearingly harmless: The Wall Street Journal reports that late ...

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Even before February 28, the reasons for Donald Trump’s imploding approval rating were abundantly clear: untrammeled corruption and personal enrichment to the tune of billions of dollars during an ...

It’s time again for the Greater Goodies, honoring movies from the past year that exemplify human strengths and virtues.

Since the jailed Istanbul mayor's party won a resounding victory in March 2024 local elections against the ruling AKP, it has faced a sweeping legal crackdown and 15 of its mayors are behind bars.

Activism / The Prairieland Defendants are on trial in a case that could set a chilling precedent for the right to protest in the United States. Sara Van Horn Lydia Koza remembers standing at the stove ...

Department of Homeland Security agents under Kristi Noem’s authority would go on to conduct brutal and legally dubious ...