In St. Paul this week, a new generation of media makers is under assault by the city's mayor and law enforcement officers. These local officials think freedom of the press is a privilege that extends only to their closest allies in mainstream media.

A Harvard University police officer who faces possible disciplinary action over an incident involving a black teenager last month said she is being used as a scapegoat as the university tries to address accusations of racial profiling by campus police.

About one in five young adults last year acknowledged illicit drug use within the previous month, a rate similar to previous years. But cocaine use declined by one-quarter and methamphetamine use by one-third.

Never before has an inmate asked for his body to be turned into fish food and fed to goldfish, all in the name of art. But that is exactly what Gene Hathorn, a convicted murderer on death row in Texas, has pledged to do if his final appeal fails...

In Nashville, police no longer use Taser guns but the replacement method of subduing people forced drug injections may be worse.

In the months leading up to the Republican National Convention, the FBI-led Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force actively recruited people to infiltrate vegan groups and other leftist organizations and report back about their activities. On May 21, the

The structure, with rails, ventilation and lighting, is believed to be for drug smuggling. It begins in Mexicali and heads toward Calexico, but it stops short of the U.S.

Amid charges of police misconduct during the Republican National Convention in Minnesota, the American Civil Liberties Union called for accountability for any unconstitutional actions there.

A minute-by-minute dispatch from St Paul...