Lower courts had been divided over whether judges must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to the seconds preceding them. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington The Supreme Court ...

The shoes were placed carefully on the frozen sidewalk outside a downtown Minneapolis hotel. Hospital clogs. The kind worn by nurses who work long, unglamorous shifts keeping strangers alive. A ...

During a routine traffic stop near Houston in 2016, a police officer killed Ashtian Barnes by blindly firing two shots into his car after jumping onto the doorsill as Barnes began to drive away. Last ...

The justices heard arguments over whether courts must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to “the moment of threat.” By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington The Supreme Court ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday seemed in favor of reviving a civil lawsuit targeting a Harris County constable’s deputy accused in the 2016 shooting death of Ashtian Barnes. The move could ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a lawsuit filed by the mother of a Texas man who was shot and killed during a traffic stop by a police officer on a highway outside Houston. Roberto Felix of the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — A deadly traffic stop in Texas needs a second look, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting a two-second rule that restricts excessive force reviews focused on the moment an ...

The Pentagon is reportedly drawing up plans for a "reaction force" of hundreds of National Guard members who would be ready to deploy at any moment to help quell civil unrest. The plan, reported by ...