Rules would allow U.S. government to consider race, ethnicity factors. Attorney General Michael Mukasey talks with federal, state and local law enforcement leaders in May. AP file photo WASHINGTON — ...

The Justice Department is considering revised racial profiling guidance that, if issued, could set back race relations and basic fairness in this country. We hope that it does not make that mistake.

The ACLU and the ACLU of Michigan are in federal appeals court today, in a challenge to the FBI's refusal to make public information about which American communities it's spying on. The argument comes ...