China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday rejected accusations by President Barack Obama that China is among nations that regularly harass and detain journalists.

A congressionally backed panel said Friday that religious freedoms were deteriorating in Russia, Turkey and four other nations that were added to a watch list of countries where people’s rights to worship as they please or not to worship at all are at ris

Press freedom declined worldwide in 2008 as even once-unfettered nations such as Israel and Italy imposed new limits on media coverage, according to a report by media analysts.

While researching a case, attorney Ed Blackmon stumbled across leftovers of Mississippi’s segregationist past _ laws enacted to discourage the fight for equal rights for blacks.

The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to release their records and information to the public unless foreseeable harm would result.

The Obama administration is ready to tell federal agencies to release records to the public unless foreseeable harm would result, a Justice Department official said Thursday.

A Justice Department official says the Obama administration is ready to tell federal agencies to release records to the public unless foreseeable harm would result.

President Barack Obama is promising to reinvigorate the Freedom of Information Act by opening more of the government’s filing cabinets without a fight. It can’t happen soon enough for the people awaiting replies to more than 150,000 requests for informati

Freedom of the press has deteriorated in the Americas, with Mexico among the most dangerous countries in the region to be a journalist, the Inter American Press Association said Monday.

The FBI tells two out of every three Freedom of Information Act requesters that it can’t find the records they asked for _ a failure rate five times higher than other major federal agencies, a private study has found.