Police violence has a long history in the United States and remains a pervasive problem to this day. As recent research by Human Rights Watch has shown, it is inextricably linked to deep and ...

A man was charged with trespassing, tampering and vandalism on Tuesday night, the United States Park Police said. Efforts to clean the monument’s base could take days, a park service spokesman said.

The Washington Post is compiling a database of every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty since Jan. 1, 2015. In 2015, The Post began tracking details about ...